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Interview with Melissa Lem on making nature more accessible and becoming a climate activist
The family physician advocates for outdoor time with the PaRx nature prescription program
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Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square lies in ruin; its famed ice rink torn up and overtaken by a beaver pond. Beside it, a repurposed city hall is in slow decay and covered in fungus. In Mathew Borrett’s parallel universe, nature has once again reclaimed Toronto.
That’s the basis for Hypnagogic City, the Toronto-based artist’s latest exhibition housed at the Red Head Gallery until March 25. (Hypnagogia is the transitional state between wakefulness and sleep.) Using a publicly-available model of the city, Borrett transformed the landscape into a hyper-detailed depiction of Toronto’s civic centre in an alternate universe where crumbling buildings are slowly being devoured by nature.
Here, Borrett shares the two main pieces in the collection, along with three detailed crops and an exclusive variation showing a creeping Lake Ontario drowning the downtown core.
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The family physician advocates for outdoor time with the PaRx nature prescription program
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The story of how a critically endangered Indigenous language can be saved
Environment
In February 2021, the world was introduced to Mutehekau Shipu — also known as the Magpie River — when the people of Ekuanitshit, Que. and the regional municipality made a joint declaration granting the river legal personhood and rights. The declaration carries broad implications for the fight to protect nature across Canada and around the world.
Places
It’s an ambitious plan: take the traditional Parks Canada wilderness concept and plunk it in the country’s largest city. But can Toronto’s Rouge National Urban Park help balance city life with wildlife?
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