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Society
Our latest stories on the intricacies of daily life, the lessons of first-person experience, how we relate to one another, and how to make our social world a better place
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Uncivilizing Influences
What makes a video game “addictive”?
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The Healing
Quebec Cree revive traditional medicine to cure a modern disease
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The New Expats
Many Somalis came to Canada looking for a better life. They found it back in Africa
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Kingdom Come
Can Halifax’s Shambhala Buddhist community keep the faith?
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Conscious Designs
A new ethic awakens among the people who make our stuff
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Brainwashed
Rethinking man’s genetic makeup
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Lest We Forget
Is the Royal Canadian Legion fighting a losing battle?
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Editor’s Note
Summer slips away, winter approaches, and in the interval the other fall harvest is upon us: new television shows, films, books, music, and video games, most of them trash. I …
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Editor’s Note
The Toronto District School Board is the largest entity of its kind in the country. It oversees 595 schools, 257,000 students, 16,000 elementary and secondary school teachers, and 25,000 additional …
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