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sentences that state something as happening or true
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5%
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("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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An internal review is underway after the latest issue of a journal funded by the Canada Council for the Arts appeared to support terrorism as a form of resistance and featured a poem by a Toronto writer who praises the events of October 7.
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who → fund → October
The poem, called Flood, was written by Bahar Orang and is featured in The Ex-Puritan.
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poem → call → Puritan
In the piece, Orang describes the events of an October morning, a reference to October 7 — the deadliest day for the Jewish community since the Holocaust, when 1,200 Israelis were murdered by Hamas terrorists in 2023.
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Israelis → describe → 2023
“Praise the paragliders, their gentle ascension, their unbroken morning, and of course their triumphant descension…,” she writes.
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she → praise → course
Hamas terrorists fired rockets across the border from Gaza into Israel and then used paragliders to invade and attack civilians.
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terrorists → fire → civilians
Videos and photos obtained by Reuters and CNN showed how those horrific scenes unfolded.
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scenes → obtain → Reuters
In the poem, Orang also writes “praise the fighters,” and acknowledges their courage, cunning and patience.
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Orang → write → courage
She describes “the tanks on fire, the enemy fleeing.”
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enemy → describe → fire
“Praise the missiles, the recognitions written in blood on each one, the names carved already into your own flesh,” she continues.
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she → praise → flesh
In a statement to National Post, the arts council said it has “retained legal counsel to assist with our review of this matter.”
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it → say → matter
It said that the views expressed in The Ex-Puritan do not reflect the council’s views, although the council “takes concerns regarding the content published in the most recent edition of Ex-Puritan very seriously.”
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council → say → Puritan
In 2024, the journal was awarded a four-year grant with annual funding of $22,000 to support its overall operations.
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journal → award → operations
“As an arm’s length funder, the Canada Council supports a diverse range of artistic and literary expression across the country, and funded organizations make their own editorial and artistic decisions,” the council’s statement said.
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statement → support → decisions
“At the same time, freedom of expression is not without limits, and concerns that published content may contravene Canadian law warrant careful review and consideration.”
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content → publish → review
Orang was a guest editor for the edition and wrote an editorial note explaining why the issue turns “deliberately toward armed resistance.”
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issue → write → resistance
“Among our obligations as Westerners, one is straightforward: to honour that creation of possibility, even when — or especially when — it takes the systematically disavowed form of armed resistance,” she explains.
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she → honour → resistance
“Taking resistance seriously in all its forms alters what we, as cultural workers, are able to perceive: the violence already structuring ordinary life, and those who fight it as political agents.”
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who → take → agents
Orang’s biography on the website of Book*hug Press, which published her first book in 2020, describes her as an award-winning author who lives and works as a psychiatrist in Toronto.
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who → publish → Toronto
Her work is expected to be featured in Best Canadian Poetry 2027.
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work → expect → Poetry
National Post has reached out to Orang’s publisher for comment.
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Post → reach → comment
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