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La trahison est un entretien passionné entre Gabriel Dumont et le vieux curé de Batoche, le père Julien Moulin. Nous sommes en 1905 et le vieux Métis veut être enterré avec les siens dans le cimetière de Batoche, mais il n'a pas remis les pieds dans une église depuis la fin de la Résistance.

D'un acteur qui peine à apprendre par cœur le célèbre poème Speak White de Michèle Lalonde, Robert Lepage tire le prétexte à une remontée dans la mémoire : la sienne, du temps de son enfance passée au 887 de l'avenue Murray à Québec, et celle du Québec à l'époque de la crise d'Octobre et de la Nuit de la poésie. Dans ce spectacle solo, Robert Lepage fait naître le théâtre au point de rencontre des souvenirs personnels et de la mémoire collective.

Lila, a young Black ex-cop, has been on leave from the police force ever since she shot an unarmed Black youth. She's moved back in with her mother, Karen, and is drinking beer for breakfast. So when Tim, a white playwright, shows up at her door to casually inform her that his play inspired by her experience is being adapted into a movie, Lila's trauma is dragged out for speculation once again.

Should women abandon religion? Four female panellists face off in a wild, whip-smart televised debate about the intersection of religion and misogyny. On one side, there's Maryam, a progressive Muslim lawyer, and Yehudit, an Orthodox Jewish spiritual leader. The other has Liz, a lesbian antitheist pundit, and Margaret, an excommunicated nun. The debaters wrestle with themselves and with each other: Can you be a feminist and believe in religion? What can or can't be forgiven? Why do we have faith to begin with?

In this stunning third part to Kate Hennig's powerful Queenmaker series, England's first queen regnant finds herself fighting xenophobia, religious nationalism, and strained familial bonds in the power struggle that dubs her Bloody Mary. Upon the death of King Edward VI, the thirty-eight-year-old princess Mary-daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon-wrests the throne from Edward's deemed heir.

A man earns. However little, however nefariously, he earns. Oba, a middle-aged businessman, is torn between his pride and dignity. He's obsessed with making deals in unidentified substances to stay afloat. A powerful client named Araf arrives, interested in Oba's business, but also his fierce, inherited servant Femi. Oba's young progeny Mabo is hungry and desperate, but still driven by his skills and sympathetic to the needs of others.

The point is that we started the conversation. In 1971 Phillip was on the cusp of starting something big. Something that would make history. Now he's an aging journalist trying to make sense of Grindr. Phillip was a founding member of The Body Politic, a gay-liberation newspaper based in Toronto. As he recounts memories of censorship battles, police raids, historic rallies, and the onset of HIV/AIDS during an intimate encounter with a younger man, their generational differences shine a light on the massive shifts in queer identity and politics over the last fifty years.

Losing religion one false beard at a time.On a whim, armchair-atheist Richard Kelly Kemick joins the 100-plus cast of The Canadian Badlands Passion Play, North America's largest production of its kind and one of the main tourist attractions in Alberta. By the time closing night is over, Kemick has a story to tell.

Their whole bodies are ready for sleep, but sleep doesn't come. The cold has deserted winter, causing the polar bears in the zoo to pace in an endless quest for sleep. Their caretaker, Sasha, will do anything to bring them slumber. But when a boy named Marcus suddenly appears at his window, bringing a different outlook on the meaning of family, Sasha finds himself buried under new responsibilities-such as packing lunches and reading bedtime stories-rather than snow.

Aspiring historian Maxine is researching Canadian social policy when she discovers the story of Everett Klippert-the last Canadian man jailed simply for being gay. Maxine becomes fascinated with Everett's case and with discovering the man beyond the headlines, a beloved Calgary bus driver on the downtown route who took care to brighten the day of his passengers, who played on the family baseball team and was everyone's favorite uncle, and who, when he was confronted by police about his sexuality, refused to lie.