Who Can Call Themselves Métis?
With the latest census surge in the Métis population, it’s time to start talking about how we define the term
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What Does It Mean to Have a Healthy Body?
New research has reopened the debate on fat and fitness
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The Science of Loneliness
We’re more lonely today than at any other point in recorded history—and it isn’t good for us
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Why I Pray
How I still find meaning in prayer during an era where it’s often watered down—or used as an emotional weapon
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Why I Miss My Holiday Retail Job
You can buy anything you want online. But the internet can’t capture the magic of the Eaton’s perfume counter at Christmas
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The Reality of Facing Cancer
Patients are expected to trust in their strength of character and hope for a miracle. My wife had a different approach.
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The Fear of Failing the Victims of #MeToo
As part of my job, I listen to stories of sexual abuse. But I’ve also been complicit in not believing women
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The Deadly Racism of Thunder Bay
A series of stalled police investigations reveals a city that’s indifferent to Indigenous lives
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Remembering the Halifax Explosion
On the hundredth anniversary of the disaster, we look back at how some of the city’s children miraculously survived
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Canadian Education Is Steeped in Anti-Black Racism
For many Black youth, schools can be places of degradation, harm, and psychological violence
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