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Letters / March/April 2024

Letters to the Editor: March/April 2024

March 4, 2024March 1, 2024 - by Readers

On Vaclav Smil, retirement, and Indigo

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March/April 2024 / Media

My Guilty Pleasure: I’m Addicted to Bad News

February 20, 2024February 20, 2024 - by Casey Plett

The world may be awful, but if I know about it, then at least I know

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Black and white illustration of a female mermaid-like figure with a pink background. She is sitting on a stone with her feet and left hand dipped in the sea while her right hand holds a glowing box. Behind her is the outline of an orb through which the distant horizon is visible. A swirling border surrounds the scene with leering eyes drawn in the top corners, looking down at the figure.

Fiction / March/April 2024

Two Female Modes of Transportation

February 19, 2024February 19, 2024 - by Jowita Bydlowska

The boy watches as the girl slumps over herself, the fire hair like a warning against coming closer

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March/April 2024 / Society

The Diminishing Romance of Train Travel

February 12, 2024February 12, 2024 - by Lynn Cunningham

I took a sleeper train across the country. I learned Via Rail is still stuck in the twentieth century

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Books / March/April 2024

The Shunned Literary Genius of Samuel Selvon

February 6, 2024February 6, 2024 - by Amanda Perry

When a giant of Caribbean literature moved to Calgary, Canadian critics ignored him. He probably didn’t care

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March/April 2024 / Media

How Connie Walker Got Us Listening

January 29, 2024April 10, 2024 - by Michelle Cyca

The Pulitzer Prize–winning podcaster is changing journalism as we know it

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Current Affairs / March/April 2024

Exploitation and Abusive Bosses Plague Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program

January 24, 2024August 13, 2024 - by Marcello Di Cintio

Government efforts to help vulnerable workers may be retraumatizing them

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