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June 2025 / Society

“Is Your Blood Clean?”: The Paranoid Pastor Who Turned His Church into a Violent Cult

April 30, 2025April 30, 2025 - by Rachel Browne

Inside Jamaica’s most notorious criminal case

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Health

RFK Jr. Is Bad for Canada’s Health Too

April 9, 2025April 9, 2025 - by Taylor C. Noakes

The health secretary has gutted core agencies that safeguard the US’s well-being. The fallout won’t stop at the border

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Society

COVID-19 Showed Who Really Owns Public Spaces. It’s Not the Public

March 20, 2025March 22, 2025 - by Anna Kramer

Are our cities meant for everyone?

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Society

Not Working, Not Studying, Not Happy: Meet the NEETs

February 27, 2025February 27, 2025 - by Nathan Abraha

Why are so many young people struggling to finish education or find a job?

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Education

Stop Panicking about Your Kid’s Screen Time

July 29, 2024July 29, 2024 - by Anne Thériault

In some cases, it might actually be helping them learn

An illustrated portrait of Romana Didulo with her head large in the frame and dramatically lit by a yellow spotlight against a starry background. She is flanked by 2 purple flags and two people lying in futuristic medical beds. Below her are a crowd of followers wearing white baseball caps and holding megaphones and cameras. A bus decorated with advertisements for the Canada 1st Party runs along the bottom with large “Keep Out!” signs on either side.

Current Affairs / September/October 2024

How the “Queen of Canada” and Conspiracy Theorists Splintered a Small Town

June 5, 2024April 21, 2025 - by Rachel Browne

Romana Didulo believes she has communed with aliens and been recognized by Donald Trump. When she and her inner circle moved to Richmound, Saskatchewan, some residents protested to kick her out. Others saw an opportunity

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June 2023

Editor’s Letter: Documenting How We’ve Changed

August 10, 2023 - by Carmine Starnino

Our twentieth anniversary issue began as a post-pandemic project—but became personal

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Memoir

100 Years after the Exclusion Act, Chinese Canadians like Me Still Question Their Belonging

June 28, 2023May 21, 2024 - by Adrian Ma

Searching for the sense of identity I had lost during the pandemic, I needed my family to see where our Canadian story began

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Arts & Culture / June 2023

Am I Being Priced Out of Making Music?

June 27, 2023June 27, 2023 - by Ashley Au

People want my art, but as a working-class musician, I can’t make a living

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June 2023 / Society

As a Therapist, I Know What’s Breaking Couples Up

May 26, 2023May 26, 2023 - by Andrew Sofin

How relationships come to an end and the scourge of the smartphone

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“Is Your Blood Clean?”: The Paranoid Pastor Who Turned His Church into a Violent Cult

RFK Jr. Is Bad for Canada’s Health Too

Not Working, Not Studying, Not Happy: Meet the NEETs

Stop Panicking about Your Kid’s Screen Time

How the “Queen of Canada” and Conspiracy Theorists Splintered a Small Town

Editor’s Letter: Documenting How We’ve Changed

100 Years after the Exclusion Act, Chinese Canadians like Me Still Question Their Belonging

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