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October 2018

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Books / Fiction / October 2018

The Arithmetic of Common Ground

October 12, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Scott Randall

A short story about the remarkable unlikelihood that anyone finds a mate

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October 2018 / Politics

Meet the Facebook Group Trying to Reshape Politics

October 5, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Jen Gerson

Ontario Proud has become enormously influential on social media. Critics say it’s partisan, even racist

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Environment / October 2018

How I Learned to Love Bonsai

October 2, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Harley Rustad

When my amateur attempts at the art weren’t working, I went to YouTube star Nigel Saunders

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Books / October 2018

When Is It Women’s Time to Speak?

October 1, 2018November 13, 2019 - by Casey Plett

In Miriam Toews’s new novel, women in an isolated Mennonite colony debate how to move forward in the aftermath of sexual assault

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Books / First Person / October 2018

The Cat Who Ate Like A Lion

September 28, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Patti Sonntag

Lessons of love and acceptance from the furriest member of the family

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Cover Story / Education / October 2018

Who Gets to Be Gifted?

September 19, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Katrina Onstad

Kids in the gifted program are disproportionately white and affluent. How streaming became another form of segregation

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Fiction / October 2018

Split Tooth

September 18, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Tanya Tagaq

We pile our hair as high as it will go, even though the wind destroys our hairdos to the point that every time we come in from outside, the girls’ bathroom is a haze of Final Net

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Books / October 2018

Esi Edugyan Reimagines the Slave Narrative

September 17, 2018November 13, 2019 - by Donna Bailey Nurse

In Washington Black, a black prodigy is trapped inside his historical era

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