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Arts & Culture / Books / January/February 2019

Let the Latest Joe Beef Cookbook Guide You to Gluttony

December 19, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Shannon Tien

The Montreal restaurateurs have crafted extravagant recipes for the coming apocalypse

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student looking through lines in paper like they were blinds
Education / October 2018

Who Gets to Be Gifted?

September 19, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Katrina Onstad

Kids in the gifted program are disproportionately white and affluent. How streaming became another form of segregation

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group of people sitting together in a desert
September 2018 / Society

The New Old Age

August 27, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Sandra Martin

Longevity is now our reality. Are we ready for it?

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September 2018 / Society

The Charmed Life of Esther the Wonder Pig

August 15, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Jason McBride

What one celebrity pet can tell us about our curious and complicated relationship with animals

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Person whose top of head is a flower
Fiction / July/August 2018

Upholstery

July 24, 2018September 14, 2021 - by Mireille Silcoff

Mrs. Naimer would swim the whole way across the lake and back, a feat everyone on the beach ignored on purpose

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Politics

Becoming Natan Obed

June 21, 2018November 12, 2019 - by Samia Madwar

The national Inuit representative is the most important leader many Canadians haven’t heard of

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Illustration by Sébastian Thibault
June 2018 / Society

Black Cemeteries Force Us to Re-examine Our History with Slavery

May 28, 2018January 30, 2022 - by Charmaine A. Nelson

How we treat the dead tells a disturbing story about Canada’s racism

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Illustration of a Black Woman Surrounded by Face-Shaped Data Structures
June 2018 / Technology

How We Made AI As Racist and Sexist As Humans

May 16, 2018March 27, 2020 - by Danielle Groen

AI influences everything from hiring decisions to loan approvals. Too bad it’s as biased as we are

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Illustration by Hanna Barczyk
May 2018

How to Build a Life Without Kids

May 2, 2018March 27, 2020 - by Lauren McKeon

Canadians are increasingly living alone and without kids. For women, that means finding meaning outside the maternal script

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Illustration of a Male Yogi
Health / July/August 2018

Yoga’s Culture of Sexual Abuse: Nine Women Tell Their Stories

April 25, 2018February 5, 2020 - by Matthew Remski

Disturbing accounts of misconduct against the founder of one of North America’s most popular forms of yoga

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