The Best Thing I Could Do for Climate Change Was Go Home
I was making gelato and living large in Vancouver, but something was missing. Then I returned to Old Crow, Yukon
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We May Be Stuck with Doug Ford
Failure and corruption seem to follow Ontario’s premier at every turn. What would it take to get rid of him?
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Rethinking Uncertainty in an Insecure Age
Our world is becoming more unsettled in many troubling ways. In others, it is not nearly unsettled enough
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And so live ever—
For one moment / we’re held, just so.
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How a Summer House Triggered an Existential Crisis on PEI
An Ontario couple’s planned property development has sparked environmental and right-of-access concerns—and has Islanders questioning their sense of self
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I Changed My Mind about Reading Problematic Male Authors
I came of age loving the works of Milan Kundera and Derek Walcott. Now, as a professor of literature, I have to ask tough questions
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The Next Target in the War on Affirmative Action? Law Firms
The move to weed out equitable hiring is part of a much longer history of exclusion in both the US and Canada
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Hadfield, We Have a Problem
The acclaimed astronaut’s latest novel fails to blast off
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“Parents’ Rights” Rhetoric Is Rooted in Radical Conspiracy Theories
Why are federal and provincial conservative leaders echoing the talking points of QAnon?
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