The “Multi-Multi-Multi-Million-Dollar” Art Fraud That Shook the World

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Arts & Culture / June 2024

The “Multi-Multi-Multi-Million-Dollar” Art Fraud That Shook the World

April 5, 2024June 7, 2024 - by Luc Rinaldi

Norval Morrisseau was one of the most famous Indigenous artists anywhere. Then the fakes of his works surfaced—and kept coming

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Arts & Culture

What’s Lost in the Quest for Black Authenticity

April 4, 2024April 5, 2024 - by Connor Garel

The media’s appetite for “gritty” Black stories turns misery into entertainment

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May 2024 / Society

Are Workplaces Inherently Toxic?

April 3, 2024April 3, 2024 - by Samia Madwar

Bullying. Harassment. Horrible bosses. How dream jobs turn into nightmares

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Arts & Culture / May 2024

My Guilty Pleasure: Dynasty Clawed Its Way into My Heart

April 2, 2024April 2, 2024 - by Jana G. Pruden

Kidnapping, bigamy, financial ruin, babies falling from roofs—and really great clothes

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Seven Hard Truths about the Climate Crisis

April 1, 2024April 1, 2024 - by Gwynne Dyer

The consensus is in: cooling the planet will be impossible without direct human intervention. How can we safely save the world?

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Fiction / May 2024

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We ate and drank and drove on and I went off the road, and so we discussed the situation and decided it would be a good idea to pull off the road

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Politics

Why Poilievre Will Win

March 28, 2024March 28, 2024 - by David Moscrop

Voters are begging for something, anything, different

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Des films et de la phonétique : La numérisation de l’histoire du Yukon

March 27, 2024June 25, 2024 - by The Walrus Lab

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Of Films and Phonetics: The Digitization of Yukon History

March 27, 2024March 28, 2024 - by The Walrus Lab

Season 2/Episode 5 – English Transcript

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Business

We’re More in Debt than Ever. What Now?

March 27, 2024March 27, 2024 - by Jean Marc Ah-Sen

One paradoxical solution to the affordability crisis: let individuals take on even more debt

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