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Linda Besner
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In Their Own Words
The fight to preserve the Cree language
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Hearing Aid
Broadcasting the Pan and Parapan Am Games to sound- and vision-impaired spectators
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Plan to Be Ready
My intern swings a lantern through the swamp. Bloodhounds on the track of the elusive mind map, in our boat we nose over ghost orchids, cull lucid proofs from the …
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The Power of Montreal’s Thriving Deaf Community
Discovering Montreal’s vibrant Deaf culture
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An oral history of Mohawk ironworkers
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Dogwalker’s Law
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Spellbound
La nouvelle orthographe is supposed to improve language—to the chagrin of some French speakers
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Dogwalker’s Law
The Korean chatelaine who claims she never boffed her former dogwalker (and blots her creamy affidavit swearing theirs a chaste relationship) is perjuring: if she didn’t, she should have, as …
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