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June 2019

The senate chamber with red carpeting and wood panelled walls.
Arts & Culture / June 2019

Canada’s Most Despised Political Institution Gets a Makeover

June 7, 2019July 16, 2019 - by Simon Lewsen

Will the Senate’s new look make it more popular?

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Arts & Culture / Comics / June 2019 / Visual Art

In This Wildly Popular Comic, Toronto Is Beautiful and Falling Apart

June 4, 2019July 9, 2019 - by Sharon Nadeem

Inside Michael DeForge’s new collection

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Environment / June 2019

If You Give a Shark a Twitter Account, Will It Make People Care About Conservation?

June 3, 2019January 31, 2020 - by Chelsea Murray

In a campaign to protect sharks, a controversial research group is disrupting the traditional world of science

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Cover Story / June 2019 / Society

The Rise of Junk Science

May 27, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Alex Gillis

Fake publications are corrupting the world of research—and influencing real news

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A typewriter with rainbow paper illustrating a man in a lounging position.
First Person / June 2019

My Father, the Secret Pornographer

May 23, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Rebecca Duclos

I recently discovered my dad used to write gay porn

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Current Affairs / Education / June 2019 / Society

Are University Campuses Where Free Speech Goes to Die?

May 22, 2019March 27, 2020 - by John Semley

A new generation of students reignites the fight over intellectual freedom

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Poet Souvankham Thammavongsa wears a green shirt and stands in front of a gold backdrop.
Arts & Culture / June 2019

Souvankham Thammavongsa Shows Us the Beauty of a Furious Poem

May 7, 2019January 20, 2021 - by Anita Lahey

The persuasive anger of the poet’s new collection, Cluster, tackles everything from war to the financial industry

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A woman marathoner running in the woods.
June 2019 / Sports

When Male Runners Lose to Women

May 2, 2019August 26, 2019 - by Leyland Cecco

Conventional wisdom has long asserted men outperform women in long-distance races. Ultramarathon results prove that assumption wrong

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Strikers overturn a streetcar in Winnipeg, June 21, 1919.
Current Affairs / June 2019 / Society

What the Winnipeg General Strike Can Teach Us about Class, Capitalism, and Greed

April 29, 2019July 2, 2020 - by Tom Jokinen

In 1919, 35,000 workers ground Winnipeg to a halt. We may never again see another strike like it

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