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Month: December 2018

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Books

Ten Canadian Authors on the Best Books of 2018

December 28, 2018December 6, 2021 - by The Walrus Staff

We asked CanLit’s most buzzed about authors to pick their favourite reads this year

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Arts & Culture / January/February 2019

The Art of the Snag

December 27, 2018April 23, 2020 - by Troy Sebastian / Nupqu ʔa·kǂ am̓

Inside a joyful and mischievous world of attraction

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Arts & Culture / January/February 2019

Christmas on Easter Island

December 25, 2018December 24, 2019 - by Teva Harrison

It’s my first Christmas Mass, but I don’t need experience to know that this Mass is unusual

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Baby crying in arms of father as wife paints chair
December 2018 / Technology

The Secret to the Perfect Lullaby

December 25, 2018March 31, 2020 - by David Sax

One of the world’s biggest toy makers races to engineer music that will put all babies to sleep

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December 2018 / Fiction

Plastic Parts to Help with Life

December 23, 2018August 30, 2021 - by M.A.C. Farrant

A Lego Farm is an environmentally friendly and vegetarian farm where there are no slaughterhouses, no feeding operations, no toxic lagoons, and no impoverished migrant workers

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Society

The Power of Indigenous Kinship

December 21, 2018November 14, 2019 - by Tanya Talaga

To heal the spirits of the next generation, Indigenous peoples are relearning rites of passage

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January/February 2019 / Society

Why Do We Have Such a Problem with the Way Women Speak?

December 20, 2018February 22, 2021 - by Danielle Kinahan

Women’s voices are often characterized as “shrill” or “nagging”—perceptions that can keep them out of leadership roles

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Illustrated dinner table full of food
Arts & Culture / Books / January/February 2019

Let the Latest Joe Beef Cookbook Guide You to Gluttony

December 19, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Shannon Tien

The Montreal restaurateurs have crafted extravagant recipes for the coming apocalypse

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Business / December 2018

Poutine in Qatar

December 18, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Corey Mintz

What responsibilities does a Canadian company have when it expands into countries known for human rights violations?

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Society

The Toxic Sexism of Catholic All-Boys Schools

December 17, 2018January 6, 2020 - by Michael Lista

St. Michael’s College School made headlines after some of its football players were accused of brutally attacking another student. Where do so-called good boys get such bad ideas?

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