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Jeannie Phan (jeanniephan.com) draws for Quill & Quire and the New York Times.
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Health / September/October 2023

Are We Losing the War on Cancer?

September 18, 2023September 18, 2023 - by Jeannie Phan

For half a century, we have thrown everything we have at the disease, but we are no closer to curing it

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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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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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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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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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October 2015

Class Dismissed

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

Do we really need school board trustees?

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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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Poetry / September 2014

A Late Writer’s Desk

September 4, 2014September 12, 2023 - by Jeannie Phan

Scrapyard rescue, no single / edge flush—three fraying planks

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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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