Takeaways from the Trudeau-Biden virtual hangout
02/24/2021 10:00 AM EST
If you’d been wondering whether Zoom calls between government leaders are any different from your awkward Zoom calls with family, the answer is no. Somebody’s half-yelling (Trudeau). Somebody mentions that it’s someone else’s birthday (in this case, Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau’s) and no one really reacts. Somebody makes a joke about being bad at French (yes, it was Biden) and everyone else smiles indulgently from behind their masks. You know, standard Zoom fare.
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The Murders That Haunted Toronto’s Gayborhood for the Past Decade And a Chat With the Journalist Who Covered Them
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In the past decade, as the LGBTQ community in the U.S. became more aware of, and outraged about, continued attacks (including fatal ones) on transgender women of color, Canada was consumed with its own queer crisis: the disappearance of at least eight men who frequented Toronto’s closely knit Gay Village area six of them immigrants and refugees from the Middle East or South Asia. Finally, in 2019, Bruce McArthur, a middle-aged white man, pled guilty to the murders of all eight men, whose remains he had buried on the grounds of a suburban landscaping job, and was sentenced to life in prison.
Author of the article: Dave Breakenridge
Publishing date: Jan 28, 2021 • January 28, 2021 • 1 minute read • Members of the Proud Boys walk past law enforcement officers near the Virginia State Capitol on Lobby Day, a day traditionally set aside for the public to lobby lawmakers, in Richmond, Va., on Jan. 18, 2021. Photo by Jim Urquhart/Reuters
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After members showed up at the Capitol Hill riot in Washington D.C. on Jan. 6, the far-right group the Proud Boys have caught the attention of politicians in Canada.
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True Crime: Netflix’s Night Stalker is the latest in a genre we can’t escape Tiller Russell, director of Night Stalker on Netflix, and others explain how to create thoughtful true crime without lionizing perpetrators by Radheyan Simonpillai on January 25th, 2021 at 12:00 PM 1 of 4 2 of 4
The latest true crime docuseries creeping onto Netflix this month is
Night Stalker: The Hunt For A Serial Killer. The four-part series revisits the terror Richard Ramirez inflicted on people in Los Angeles in the mid- 80s.
His murder spree lasted from June 1984 to August 1985 and dominated headlines, provoked panic and has had a lasting influence on pop culture. The detectives who worked the Ramirez case consulted on Michael Mann’s 1986 movie
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