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Jeannie Phan

Jeannie Phan (jeanniephan.com) draws for Quill & Quire and the New York Times.
A woman looks out her window a city with numbers flashing through the sky.
Business / June 2022

How Credit Scores Can Run—and Ruin—Our Lives

May 24, 2022May 30, 2022 - by Jeannie Phan

You can have a great credit history and still see your score plummet. How did the rating system become so powerful?

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student looking through lines in paper like they were blinds
Education / October 2018

Who Gets to Be Gifted?

September 19, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Jeannie Phan

Kids in the gifted program are disproportionately white and affluent. How streaming became another form of segregation

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Man Removing grapes from trees
Current Affairs / July/August 2018

Eating Dinner With Canada’s Migrant Workers

June 12, 2018August 26, 2022 - by Jeannie Phan

For the people who work our fields, food is both a livelihood and a way to stave off isolation

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Illustration by Jeannie Phan
November 2016

Eye for Talent

October 18, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Jeannie Phan

Why Canada wins at immigration

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Illustration by Jeannie Phan
Health / May 2016

The Tragedy of Anorexia

April 12, 2016March 31, 2020 - by Jeannie Phan

She’s been suffering for years—and there’s nothing her psychiatrist can do about it

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Illustration by Jeannie Phan
October 2015

Class Dismissed

October 15, 2015July 28, 2021 - by Jeannie Phan

Do we really need school board trustees?

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Illustration by Jeannie Phan
Books / March 2015

Choose Your Own Ending

February 23, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Jeannie Phan

Why there are so many books about death and dying

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Different windows showing different people doing various activities
Poetry / September 2014

A Late Writer’s Desk

September 4, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Jeannie Phan

They couldn’t give it away, I guess, so left it by the side of the road, where, obdurate, it warps. No gnawed pencils now, no fingers drumming— just catkin loads …

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Canoes and paddles by a shallow creek
Environment / September 2014

Mr. Weaver Goes to Victoria

September 2, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Jeannie Phan

A renowned climate scientist gets political

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A table with food on plates
September 2014 / Society

Loaves and Fishes

August 28, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Jeannie Phan

Dining with the pious at the National Prayer Breakfast

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