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September/October 2022

No Place to Live: the crisis in public housing; What makes the perfect toy?; How to teach the climate crisis; Plus a neuroscientist on pumpkin spice.

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September/October 2022 / Society

No Place to Live

September 21, 2022March 10, 2023 - by Julia-Simone Rutgers

One person’s search for a place to call home shows a public housing system stretched to its limits

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September/October 2022

Editor’s Letter: Fighting Trolls with Truth

September 12, 2022September 12, 2022 - by Jessica Johnson

How can we capture a diversity of voices while sticking to the facts?

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Poetry / September/October 2022

Kettle

September 9, 2022 - by James Pollock

Hesitant whistles. Then this wheezing laugh, / growing hysterical, like a dance-of-death

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Letters / September/October 2022

Letters to the Editor: September/October 2022

September 8, 2022September 8, 2022 - by Readers

On credit scores, the myth of diversity in Canadian TV, and why we should revere peacocks

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Business / September/October 2022

How Do You Make the Perfect Toy?

September 6, 2022September 8, 2022 - by Matthew Braga

Fads come and go, but how to create a toy that stands the test of time is the billion-dollar question

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Poetry / September/October 2022

Synchrony

August 31, 2022August 31, 2022 - by Nyla Matuk

Marine monotony, ocean giving way to ocean, / a grammar of latitudinal minutes, hours, days.

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Science / September/October 2022

Ask a Neuroscience Expert: Why Are We So Obsessed with Pumpkin Spice?

August 30, 2022January 10, 2023 - by Catherine Franssen

The craze for the cozy fall flavour doesn’t seem to be going away any time soon

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Politics / September/October 2022

Most Quebecers Don’t Want Sovereignty. Can This Politician Change Their Minds?

August 29, 2022September 1, 2022 - by Lisa Fitterman

Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois plans to unseat the premier with a new, more “inclusive” vision of separation

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Education / September/October 2022

Why Are Oil-and-Gas Companies Developing Lesson Plans for Teachers?

August 26, 2022August 26, 2022 - by Ainslie Cruickshank

The fossil fuel industry has long understood the power of the school system in shaping perceptions around climate change

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Arts & Culture / September/October 2022

The Tarnished Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott

August 24, 2022August 29, 2022 - by Mark Abley

How educators are teaching the poetry of the man who oversaw residential schools

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