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A logger cuts down a tree with leaves shaped like British Columbia.
Business / July/August 2022

Clearing Out: BC’s Logging Industry Sets Its Sights on the US

June 28, 2022June 30, 2022 - by Caitlin Stall-Paquet

Facing ecological and political uncertainty at home, some of the province’s largest lumber producers are looking south

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January/February 2022 / Society

The Dirty Work of Cleaning Online Reputations

January 4, 2022January 10, 2022 - by Paul Gallant

For a fee, companies will tackle damaging search results. But is the new economy of digital makeovers making things worse?

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Illustration of a man in a suit planting gold coins in a field filled with plants and windmills.
Environment / January/February 2022

Green Investing Is Having Its Moment in the Sun. Can It Help Save the Planet?

December 16, 2021June 28, 2022 - by Ainslie Cruickshank

As interest grows in sustainable stocks, observers worry there’s more hype than substance to the trend

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Illustration of a university campus. On one side, students relaxingly speak to each other and work at computers in the sun. On the other side, in the shadows, are overcrowded ladders of students climbing in through windows.
Education / September/October 2021

The Shadowy Business of International Education

August 18, 2021May 29, 2022 - by Nicholas Hune-Brown

Foreign students are lied to and exploited on every front. They’re also propping up higher education as we know it

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Society

Is It Time for Unions to Seize the Moment?

August 17, 2021October 19, 2021 - by Allison LaSorda

The last year has seen workers’ rights and safety continue to erode. Collective action may be the only answer

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Business

What Do You Do with a Billion Grams of Surplus Weed?

August 5, 2021October 18, 2021 - by Kieran Delamont

Cannabis legalization was supposed to be a licence to print money. Three years on, nobody is turning a profit

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Business

Have We Been Thinking about Inflation All Wrong?

July 30, 2021December 6, 2021 - by Max Fawcett

For decades, governments have done all they can to keep inflation down. But maybe letting things run hotter is exactly what we need

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Illustration of a man surrounded by cannabis paraphernalia makes calculations on a clipboard.
Cannabis / July/August 2021

The Hazy Economy of Cannabis

June 7, 2021October 18, 2021 - by Alanna Mitchell

When Canada legalized recreational marijuana, a team of statisticians set out to decode how much exactly the weed business is worth

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The Walrus Leadership Forum on Trust

February 23, 2021February 4, 2022 - by The Walrus Staff

Building higher trust for Canada’s health and prosperity

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A photograph of the wooden exterior of the downtown Toronto MEC location, with the green "MEC" sign displayed outside.
Business

What We Can Learn from the Fall of MEC

January 20, 2021 - by Max Fawcett

The company’s failure is a warning to co-ops across the country

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