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September/October 2021

Included in our double issue: the maximalist home, the pursuit and exploitation of international students, and is the housing bubble about to pop?

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Poetry / September/October 2021

We Knew What Was Coming

September 10, 2021 - by Matt Rader

We knew what was / Coming—the outburst / Of green

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Poetry / September/October 2021

Myth

August 27, 2021 - by Terese Mason Pierre

You’d rather die by myth, / come upon the villains of your / mother’s bedtime stories

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Fiction / September/October 2021

Seahorse

August 26, 2021October 18, 2021 - by Alix Ohlin

Mr. Simbatye’s body had not yet begun to wither, but she opened the window in case his soul required an avenue of escape. Also because of the smell

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Poetry / September/October 2021

Soil

August 20, 2021 - by Bertrand Bickersteth

A field is / just the fist side / of a fact

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Illustration of a university campus. On one side, students relaxingly speak to each other and work at computers in the sun. On the other side, in the shadows, are overcrowded ladders of students climbing in through windows.
Education / September/October 2021

The Shadowy Business of International Education

August 18, 2021May 29, 2022 - by Nicholas Hune-Brown

Foreign students are lied to and exploited on every front. They’re also propping up higher education as we know it

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September/October 2021

Editor’s Letter: Learning and Unlearning

August 12, 2021August 12, 2021 - by Jessica Johnson

For a magazine with an educational mandate, breaking accurate news is just as important as challenging long-standing national myths

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September/October 2021

Ask a Real Estate Expert: Is the Housing Bubble Going to Burst?

August 11, 2021January 2, 2022 - by Diana Petramala

Mortgage rates are low and housing prices keep rising, which may mean a coming crash

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Environment / September/October 2021

The Other Epidemic: What’s Killing the Wild Salmon?

August 10, 2021October 18, 2021 - by Max Binks-Collier

A virus that flourishes in fish farms is now threatening wild populations. With hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, are business interests leading to government inaction?

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Illustration of a colourful maximalist living room, including bright graphic posters, and coffee table covered with books and plants, and a French Bulldog sitting on a couch with a polka dot throw blanket.
Arts & Culture / September/October 2021

More Is More: The End of Minimalism

August 4, 2021October 18, 2021 - by Mireille Silcoff

Marie Kondo’s decluttering dominance is over. Make way for maximalism, where the more stuff, the merrier

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Politics / September/October 2021

One Doctor’s Fight to Provide Abortion Care in New Brunswick

August 3, 2021October 18, 2021 - by Jessica Leeder

Decades after Henry Morgentaler started offering his services, doctors are still struggling to help their patients

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