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June 2020 / The Walrus True Crime

Murder in Old Barns

May 27, 2020June 1, 2020 - by Lindsay Jones

Why a Nova Scotia community is still searching for the killer of a beloved farmer thirty years later

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Society

How a Good Scam Can Bypass Our Defences

February 11, 2020March 27, 2020 - by Bruce Grierson

Cons exploit our cognitive biases. I learned the hard way that some of us are more vulnerable than others

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Justice

How Racism Fuels Ineffective Gun Control

December 3, 2018November 14, 2019 - by Angela Wright

Bias has influenced our ideas of those who shoot versus those who are shot

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Justice

Why I Wish I Never Reported My Assault

October 16, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Christine Estima

After a stressful year of navigating the justice system, I now feel that staying silent might have yielded the same results

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Current Affairs

Toronto Refuses to Give In to the Terrorism Trap

April 24, 2018May 1, 2020 - by Stephen Marche

The city has always valued inclusion and tolerance. Yesterday’s van attack won’t change that

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April 2018 / Cover Story / Justice

Busted by Big Data

March 29, 2018March 27, 2020 - by John Lorinc

Algorithms could make cities safer—but they can’t protect us from policing’s worst instincts

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Current Affairs

Canadians Don’t Love Guns? Think Again

March 7, 2018December 10, 2019 - by John Lorinc

The Trudeau government has largely dismissed long-gun registries—but recent mass shootings invite Canadians to reopen the debate

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Announcement

Muskoka Mystery: Police Suspected Murder in the Case of Missing Senior

March 2, 2018November 12, 2019 - by Zander Sherman

Documents give new insights about unsolved disappearances

Justice

Why Bruce McArthur’s Murder Trial Could Stigmatize Gay Men

February 9, 2018August 8, 2019 - by Paul Gallant

For Toronto’s LGBTQ community, justice requires more than just arresting an alleged serial killer

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First Person / January/February 2018

I Was a Bank Robber Until I Read Kant

January 4, 2018March 27, 2020 - by Robbie Dillon

The one thing that criminals and philosophers share is a sense of being an outsider