Letters to the Editor: September/October 2023
On triumphs in space, safety nets, and studying literature in the time of ChatGPT
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Trauma Is Shaping Our Reactions to the Violence in Palestine and Israel
This is a struggle where neither side is able to demonstrate grief for the other
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As the Israel–Hamas War Escalates, Misinformation Surges
The spread of false claims on social media makes it hard to sort fact from fiction
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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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