How Canada’s First Female Chief Justice Helped Define the Country’s Rights and Freedoms
Beverley McLachlin presided over some of the most pivotal cases in Canadian legal history
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Rachel Giese is the editorial director of Xtra. Her 2018 book, Boys: What it Means to Become a Man, won the Writers’ Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.
The Epidemic of Isolation Among Young Men
Why are we so squeamish about male friendship?
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The New Normal
Canada’s largest mental health facility is undergoing a multimillion-dollar facelift that reflects a greater cultural shift, the mainstreaming of mental illness
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Bully Pulpit
Is anti-bullying hysteria harming our kids?
Read MoreThe Errors of Their Ways
Some 24,000 Canadians will die this year from medical mistakes. Even the most temperate doctors call this an epidemic. Why these mishaps persist despite, and even because of, medicine’s growing sophistication
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How Immigration Helps to Lower Crime Rates
Canada’s crime rate is dropping as immigration increases. Is there a connection?
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