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December 2024 / Society

The False Promise of Starting Afresh in Atlantic Canada

October 22, 2024October 23, 2024 - by Trevor Corkum

If you’re moving to the East Coast for cheaper housing and friendly neighbours, think again

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Health

The Multi-Trillion-Dollar Wellness Industry Is Making Us Sick

October 21, 2024October 25, 2024 - by Jonathan N. Stea

Alternative medicine has become a scrutiny-free wonderland for anything and everything

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Justice

Seven Years after #MeToo: What Is the Cost of Speaking Up?

October 18, 2024October 18, 2024 - by Elizabeth Renzetti

NDAs are silencing whistleblowers and sexual assault victims

Two middle-age women are seen from behind, jumping into the ocean. Three men are seen already in the water.

Health

Menopause Is a Pretty Damn Fine Stage of Life

October 17, 2024October 28, 2024 - by Susan Glickman

The joy of aging like a “space crone”

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Politics

The $20 Sandwich That Could Topple Trudeau

October 16, 2024October 16, 2024 - by Ira Wells

Consumer rage is real—and it’s shaping the next election

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Books

Undoing the Fairy Tale of Alice Munro

October 15, 2024October 15, 2024 - by Justina Elias

For years, I helped spread a glowing narrative about one of Canada’s most famous authors

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Health

To Get into Medical School, I Thought I’d Have to Hide Parts of My Blackness

October 14, 2024October 15, 2024 - by Chika Stacy Oriuwa

But then came a question I wasn’t prepared for

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Politics

The Quebec Secession Crisis Is Coming, and Canada Isn’t Ready

October 11, 2024October 15, 2024 - by Gerald Butts

Why sovereigntists see their chance now

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World

In Gaza, Language Is All We Have Left

October 10, 2024November 13, 2024 - by Pacinthe Mattar

Every day, I watch Palestinians mourn in the language I speak with my own mother. If the world understood the beauty of their words, perhaps they might care about them

A book lies open to the opening epigraph. A finger with dark red nail polish, points to the quote, the hand resting on the book

Books

What’s the Point of Epigraphs Anyway?

October 9, 2024October 9, 2024 - by Tajja Isen

Writers and readers alike love to argue about the quotations in the opening pages of their favourite books

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The False Promise of Starting Afresh in Atlantic Canada

Seven Years after #MeToo: What Is the Cost of Speaking Up?

Menopause Is a Pretty Damn Fine Stage of Life

The $20 Sandwich That Could Topple Trudeau

The Quebec Secession Crisis Is Coming, and Canada Isn’t Ready

In Gaza, Language Is All We Have Left

What’s the Point of Epigraphs Anyway?

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