Why Is Joseph Boyden’s Indigenous Identity Being Questioned?
Attacking a man’s racial composition is never an entirely benign exercise
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Why Steven Galloway May Get His Job Back
UBC was quick to fire their controversial creative writing chair.
But Canadian labour law seems to be on his side
The Legal Case for Gender-Neutral Pronouns
Will bill C-16 compel free-speech advocates to use words they disagree with?
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The First Lady of Reefer Madness
How a renowned Canadian feminist popularized our racist war on drugs
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To Live and Die in Solitary Confinement
In Canada’s prisons, the horrors of segregation are most often visited on the mentally ill
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I Open the Dryer and a Robin Sails Out
Winner of the 2016 Walrus Poetry Prize Readers’ Choice Award You are driving a bus across Alberta, deciding between seasons, plucking aphids and roses. Over mountains I feel the peak …
Read More Colloquium: J.T. Henry and Lady Simcoe on Early Ontario Petrocolonialism
Winner of the 2016 Walrus Poetry Prize Mrs. Hamilton drank tea with me. Mrs. McGill, wife of the commissary, Capt. John McGill, and Miss Crookshank, her sister, are pleasant women …
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When did Literary Feuds Become So Boring?
Duels between writers were once epic. Now they’re just petty
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Our Fentanyl Crisis
A shadow health-care system is saving lives in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
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Viola Desmond’s Fight for Change is Not History
Canada’s new $10 bill featuring a black civil rights activist forces us to heed ongoing racism
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