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June 2022

The legacy of Canadian soldiers in Ukraine, how credit scores can ruin lives, the superficial diversity of Canadian TV, and the story of Sarah Polley.

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June 2022 / Poetry

New Adventures in Hi-Fi

June 14, 2022 - by James Langer

No bread crumbs left to return us, but diversions / Lobbed beyond a blind hill into the unforeseeable

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June 2022 / Poetry

The Lost Manuscript

June 10, 2022 - by Dmytro Kremin

Already manuscripts are burning, / and the snow from Chornobyl is flying

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June 2022

Letters to the Editor: June 2022

June 7, 2022June 7, 2022 - by Readers

On patient rights, self-diagnosis, and the high stakes of rising inflation

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June 2022 / Justice

The Humboldt Crash: How Much Punishment Is Enough for Jaskirat Singh Sidhu?

June 2, 2022January 13, 2023 - by Sharon J. Riley

The truck driver readily accepted his jail sentence after killing sixteen people but is now fighting his deportation. What should justice look like after an accident?

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June 2022 / Poetry

Our Second

June 1, 2022 - by Jana Prikryl

one thing constantly / enters another, becoming not one with it

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June 2022

Editor’s Letter: Navigating Responsibility

May 31, 2022May 31, 2022 - by Jessica Johnson

How do you find meaning in actions that feel inadequate or inconclusive?

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June 2022

The Superficial Diversity of Canadian TV

May 30, 2022June 9, 2022 - by Soraya Roberts

How risk avoidance shapes our entertainment

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Fiction / June 2022

The Beekeeper

May 25, 2022June 9, 2022 - by Nola Poirier

I don’t know how much longer I can stay locked inside with Mother’s prying oyster eyes and the maddening drone of my father’s beehive

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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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Arts & Culture / June 2022

Who Does Sarah Polley Think She Is?

May 17, 2022January 6, 2023 - by Sarah Liss

She first gained fame as a child actor. The writer and director has been confronting the traumas of these early experiences ever since

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