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September/October 2023
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Letters to the Editor: September/October 2023
On triumphs in space, safety nets, and studying literature in the time of ChatGPT
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And so live ever—
For one moment / we’re held, just so.
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Editor’s Letter: Why We Can’t Trust AI
Once, disinformation came solely from humans. Now it’s a feature of the machines that run our lives
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Can Prince Edward Island Survive Another Big Storm?
Houses blown away. No power for weeks. Landmarks crumbling into the ocean. PEI survived its worst, most expensive storm with Fiona. It won’t be the last
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Are We Losing the War on Cancer?
For half a century, we have thrown everything we have at the disease, but we are no closer to curing it
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My Guilty Pleasure: The All-Consuming, Shimmering World of Skinfluencers
I felt giddy whenever I burned my face with a cultish acid
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At Ninety-One, Alanis Obomsawin Is Not Ready to Put Down Her Camera
She revolutionized cinema and is inspiring the next generation of Indigenous filmmakers
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Is a Life Lived through Art Really Lived at All?
The questions posed in Patrick deWitt’s The Librarianist feel personal and existential
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