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Sébastien Thibault

Sébastien Thibault draws for the New York Times, L’actualité, and The Atlantic.
An illustration of a person peeking through their fingers. Their eyeball is the shape of the COVID-19 germ (a small round microbe with protrusions that look like the spokes of a crown).
Health / May 2020

Anatomy of a Pandemic

March 11, 2020June 2, 2020 - by Sébastien Thibault

Like major contagions throughout history, the new coronavirus causes fear as well as illness. The remedy for both, it turns out, is the same

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Politics / September 2019

Quebec Rewrites Its History in One Book

August 22, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Sébastien Thibault

A controversial new textbook peddles politics over facts

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American flag with snakes
Current Affairs / November 2018

America’s Next Civil War

October 22, 2018June 2, 2020 - by Sébastien Thibault

The United States shows all the warning signs of impending social and political collapse

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Illustration by Sébastian Thibault
June 2018 / Society

Black Cemeteries Force Us to Re-examine Our History with Slavery

May 28, 2018June 12, 2020 - by Sébastien Thibault

How we treat the dead tells a disturbing story about Canada’s racism

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Illustration of upside down maple leaf with two people exchanging suitcase full of money
Politics

How a Federal Agency Helps Finance Some of the World’s Most Corrupt Regimes

December 19, 2017April 2, 2020 - by Sébastien Thibault

Export Development Canada has perfected the art of lending billions of taxpayer dollars to scandal-ridden foreign buyers. But its transparency could use some work

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Illustration by Sébastien Thibault
Feature / September 2016

Why Is the Goal More Medals?

August 5, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Sébastien Thibault

A Canadian medallist on why our Olympic strategy betrays the spirit of the Games

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Feature / November 2015

Tilting at Windmills

November 14, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Sébastien Thibault

Canada’s most ambitious green energy plan failed—but not for the reason everybody thinks

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woman looking at face in mirror
April 2015 / Books

Rise of the Gender Novel

March 18, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Sébastien Thibault

Too often, trans characters are written as tortured heroes. We’re more complex than that

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Wave about to crash into a refinery
Environment / November 2014

The Rising Tide

October 15, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Sébastien Thibault

Naomi Klein targets the root cause of climate change—capitalism

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