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Current Affairs / July/August 2022

What Justin Trudeau Can Learn about Nuclear Diplomacy from His Father

July 15, 2022July 21, 2022 - by Paul Webster

Canada once led the fight for a world without nukes. What happened?

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A logger cuts down a tree with leaves shaped like British Columbia.
Business / July/August 2022

Clearing Out: BC’s Logging Industry Sets Its Sights on the US

June 28, 2022July 6, 2022 - by Caitlin Stall-Paquet

Facing ecological and political uncertainty at home, some of the province’s largest lumber producers are looking south

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Three women politicians and two male politicians in ascending podiums looking up at a white male politician, who has the highest podium
Politics / September/October 2022

Why Are There Still So Few Women Leaders in Politics?

June 9, 2022August 18, 2022 - by Angela Misri

Women are more likely to hold interim leadership roles in federal politics, but clinching the top role remains elusive

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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 Emily Baron Cadloff

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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A colourful collage of different people yelling at one politician standing at a podium in the centre, whose image is greyscale.
Politics

Why Is Politics Getting Nastier?

May 12, 2022May 30, 2022 - by Stephen Maher

With threats and harassment rising, running for office has become a dangerous job

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Canadian and Ukrainian soldiers survey a training area during an Operation Unifier exercise in December 2018.
Current Affairs / June 2022

What Impact Did Canada’s Military Have on Ukrainian Resistance?

April 26, 2022April 28, 2022 - by Sarah Lawrynuik

Canadian soldiers helped train more than 30,000 of their Ukrainian counterparts. Many are left wondering about their legacy

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Current Affairs

What Is the Point of Cancelling Russian Artists?

April 14, 2022April 28, 2022 - by Katia Grubisic

Scrapped tours and broken contracts won’t hurt Vladimir Putin

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The silhouettes of Afghan men who say they fled to Turkey through Iran standing in the countryside in Tatvan, Turkey.
Current Affairs

Escape from Kabul: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees

April 8, 2022April 8, 2022 - by Matthieu Aikins

As borders tighten and people find new ways to cross them, the shortest distance between two points is rarely a straight line

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Cartoon of a piggy bank holding up a knife to a man in his bedroom.
Current Affairs / May 2022

Ask an Inflation Expert: What Do Rising Prices Mean for Canadians?

April 4, 2022June 9, 2022 - by Amy Peng

The prices of everyday goods and services keep going up, but there’s a glimmer of hope

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A hand grasps a barbed wire fence that forms the shape of the Canadian flag.
Current Affairs

Why Is Canada Deporting Front Line Workers in the Middle of a Pandemic?

March 25, 2022May 2, 2022 - by Isabel Macdonald

More than 18,000 people have been forced to leave, including those who kept our society running during the worst of COVID-19

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