Paywalled, but this Globe piece by Barry Hertz perfectly articulates Toronto's current cultural crisis. Here's the lede:
"If it feels like Toronto culture is under relentless attack, that’s because it is. But there are different battlegrounds, different fights, and different opponents, making a united defence all the more challenging to mount. And if we want to continue living in a city that values art, imagination and the kind of transformative experiences that change lives – a once inalienable notion that has become more of a tremulous assumption over the past few years – then Toronto, and ultimately every Canadian urban centre, is facing a crisis point.
Over the past two months alone, Torontonians have lost access to a frighteningly wide range of cultural institutions: the Ontario Science Centre, the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, and, unless a solution can be found over the long weekend, the Revue Cinema, the city’s oldest operating movie house."
Thankfully, within the last 24 hours, the non-profit that runs the Revue Cinema has won a court injunction to stay open past July 1st, but the shock news of its imminent closure - and the seemingly intractable power of its nonagenarian landlord - on the heels of the sudden closing of the Science Centre, and the news about the Phoenix not long before that - really elucidated Toronto's collective grief at the loss of our cultural spaces, and the precarity of the organizations we have left.
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