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November/December 2020

Special double issue: The long journey to the end of COVID, the stress on kids and their mental health, David Frum fights the right, and the enduring influence of Hinterland Who’s Who.

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Letters / November/December 2020

Letters to the Editor: November/December 2020

December 24, 2020January 6, 2022 - by Readers

On long-term Lyme, the Air India attack, sensitivity readers, and more

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November/December 2020 / Poetry

Dumpster

November 13, 2020 - by Russell Thornton

It may happen / that scraps / of a tiered cake turn up

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November/December 2020

My Mum and Mister Rogers

November 3, 2020January 29, 2021 - by Cinders McLeod

Fred Rogers believed everybody was somebody. A box of lost letters tells the story of how he helped my mother believe in herself too

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A photograph of the poet, Domenica Martinello, wearing a fleece jacket and a t-shirt that says "I'm a Myth." The background is pink and yellow.
November/December 2020 / Poetry

It Follows

October 30, 2020 - by Domenica Martinello

Lot’s wife looked and became the / pillar of her community

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November/December 2020

William Ukoh Photographs a World of Leisure and Black Beauty

October 29, 2020January 30, 2022 - by Connor Garel

For the artist, rest and relaxation aren’t just aesthetics—they are where freedom is found

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Health / November/December 2020

The Many Ways We’re Failing Our Children’s Mental Health

October 26, 2020October 27, 2020 - by Lauren McGill

Social media pressures, loneliness, and the climate crisis are weighing on today’s youth. The stress is taking its toll

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November/December 2020

The Boring Brilliance of Hinterland Who’s Who

October 21, 2020April 6, 2021 - by Tom Jokinen

Fifty years later, the iconic one-minute nature docs remain the best television to ever come out of Canada

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November/December 2020 / Politics

David Frum Fights the Right

October 19, 2020January 29, 2021 - by Curtis Gillespie

The controversial conservative export on his fears for the US election and the future of the Republican Party

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November/December 2020

Loving Sports at Any Age

October 16, 2020January 29, 2021 - by Anne O'Hagan

Even in his eighties, my father dared the rest of us to keep up

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Education / November/December 2020

Black in the Ivory Tower

October 12, 2020January 30, 2022 - by Hadiya Roderique

Why it’s so hard for academics of colour to pursue their dream projects

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