Beauty Standards Are a Rigged Game
If I couldn’t be seen as both disabled and beautiful, I decided I’d win by becoming “the smart one”
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The Hidden Costs of Medical Testing
Each year, doctors order more than a million tests that patients don’t actually need. Some are even harmful
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Solving Homelessness Starts With Access to a Safe Bed
Lack of sleep compounds the challenges of precarious housing
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How Literature Can Lead to Better Health Care
Doctors face constant pressure to be resilient. Can the arts address the deeper problems that self-care can’t?
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Growing Up Mulroney
Their father was prime minister for nearly a decade. What was it like to be his sons?
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When Canada’s Immigration Policies Pull Families Apart
After years of training in Canada, my dad still had to go back to South Korea to get the job he deserved
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Your Halloween Headdress Isn’t Interesting and Neither Are You
It isn’t that hard to find a costume that doesn’t engage in cultural appropriation
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Why I Decided to Join a Class Action Against the Royal Winnipeg Ballet
I have been speaking out about alleged misconduct and abuse of power for years. Now seventy other women have added their own voices
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I’m Part of the 0.1 Percent and I Want a Wealth Tax
In the face of rising inequality, we need to elect politicians who will tax the rich
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The Women Who Stood With Tina Fontaine
How the death of a 14-year-old Indigenous girl galvanized a community
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