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Arts & Culture

The Case Against Shakespeare

March 31, 2021March 31, 2021 - by Allan Stratton

The Bard has had 400 years in the limelight. It’s time our academic obsession came to an end

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Education

The Epidemic of Teacher Burnout

December 14, 2020February 11, 2021 - by Inori Roy

Provincial funding for schools has been decreasing for decades. Many educators aren’t sure they can go on

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Education

A Lonely Year on Campus

November 9, 2020November 10, 2020 - by Jadine Ngan

Tuning in to lectures from bedrooms and basements, students face an isolating postsecondary experience. But many still see hope

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Education / First Person

Why Home-Schooling Was Right for Me

May 12, 2020 - by Elizabeth Howell

When school stifled my creativity, my parents turned to independent learning

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Society

The Biased Ways We Praise “Smart Kids”

March 10, 2020December 10, 2020 - by Anne Thériault

When we prioritize certain interests as being “better” or “smarter,” we’re failing children whose talents lie in other areas

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Sex Ed: Beyond the Classroom

Learning Sex Ed Through Art

December 5, 2018January 9, 2020 - by Anubha Momin

How Nunavut’s Timiga, Ikumajuq became the most exceptional sex-ed program in Canada

Sex Ed: Beyond the Classroom

How to Have “the Talk” as a Muslim Father

December 5, 2018November 14, 2019 - by Yasir Khan

Growing up, I remained largely ignorant about healthy sexuality. Can I do better for my daughter?

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Current Affairs

Why Everyone Is Wrong about the Censorship Fight at Universities

May 11, 2018November 12, 2019 - by Paul Barrett

The silencing of part-time instructors is the real free speech crisis

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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

Education

Canadian Education Is Steeped in Anti-Black Racism

November 29, 2017June 10, 2020 - by Robyn Maynard

For many Black youth, schools can be places of degradation, harm, and psychological violence