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Canada’s Stratford and Shaw Festivals Revive Four Classic Works
STRATFORD, Ontario — “All’s Well That Ends Well” is one of Shakespeare’s least-loved comedies. “Gaslight” is a hopeless old melodrama purveying woman-as-victim tropes. And “Chicago” is so covered with Bob Fosse’s fingerprints — or are they footprints? — that the musical can hardly be imagined without him. Yet on a recent trip to Canada —…
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Pope Francis is expected to deliver an apology long demanded by Canada’s Indigenous communities.
OTTAWA — Pope Francis, on his first full day in Canada on Monday, is expected to apologize to Indigenous communities for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in the country’s notorious residential school system, where thousands of Indigenous children died, and countless others were sexually and physically abused. The pope’s six-day visit comes after years of…
