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Health / May 2019

The Loneliness of Infertility

April 8, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Alexandra Kimball

I never felt more isolated than when I talked to other women about trying to have a baby

Business

Walmart Has Everything—Except Unions

April 2, 2019November 15, 2019 - by Hugo Meunier

Employees at a Quebec Walmart made history by unionizing their store. Six months later, management shut it down

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Technology

The Deadly Price of the Automation Paradox

March 29, 2019December 6, 2021 - by Sharon Nadeem

As automation gets better, the skills of human operators gets worse. Are the Boeing Max 8 crashes an anomaly, or a new normal?

April 2019 / Fiction

Childhood

March 26, 2019March 27, 2020 - by David Bezmozgis

Mark didn’t know what to make of his son—he didn’t seem like an “ordinary” kid

April 2019 / Society

The History of Food in Canada Is the History of Colonialism

March 12, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Corey Mintz

This country has spent centuries destroying Indigenous food systems. What would it take to restore them?

April 2019 / Society

How Do You Save Four Million Canadians from Hunger?

March 6, 2019February 24, 2021 - by Raizel Robin

Empty refrigerators, skipped meals, and famished kids are all signs of a broken economy. To fix it, we need to start thinking of food as a human right

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Uncategorized

Why the Wrong Movies Win Oscars

February 28, 2019November 14, 2019 - by Melissa J. Gismondi

Audiences are drawn to feel-good films like Green Book because they’re “based on a true story.” But movies that misrepresent and simplify history distort our understanding of the past

Books

The Black Train Porters Who Led the Fight Against Canada’s Racist Immigration System

February 25, 2019January 30, 2022 - by Cecil Foster

In the early 1900s, Canada only allowed 100 Black immigrants to enter the country each year. How did we evolve from bigoted policies to a more multicultural nation within a few decades?