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March/April 2025 / Memoir

Nazi Persecution Scattered My Family. A Lost Archive Brought Us Together

January 27, 2025January 28, 2025 - by Timothy Taylor

How 10,000 pages of documents sent me on a journey through Germany’s dark past

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Books

“I Needed to Be Doing This”: When Writers Uncover Family History

December 14, 2024December 14, 2024 - by Sadiya Ansari

Tanya Talaga and Sadiya Ansari discuss ancestors, the colonial project, and intuitive pings

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Business

How the 1980s Engineered the Collapse of the Working Class

November 27, 2024November 27, 2024 - by Charlie Angus

Forty years later, policies to prop up the super rich are still going strong

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Memoir

Finding My Grandfather, a Pilot in the Bomber Command

November 9, 2024November 9, 2024 - by Erin MacLeod

Mackie’s plane was shot down in 1945. My family is still coming to terms with the loss

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Business

Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era

August 30, 2024August 31, 2024 - by Roland Allen

“Do you know there’s a section of our customer base that buys a fresh Moleskine every time they come into a store? We have no idea what they do with them”

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Arts & Culture / September/October 2024

A Scientist’s Quest to Decode Vermeer’s True Colours

July 9, 2024July 22, 2024 - by Adnan R. Khan

New techniques reveal hidden details in the Dutch master’s paintings

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Current Affairs

How Three Big Conspiracy Theories Took Root in Canada

May 21, 2024May 22, 2024 - by Daniel R. Meister

Fringe beliefs are fringe until they’re not. Their mainstreaming has historically been aided by prominent thinkers

Books / March/April 2024

The Shunned Literary Genius of Samuel Selvon

February 6, 2024February 6, 2024 - by Amanda Perry

When a giant of Caribbean literature moved to Calgary, Canadian critics ignored him. He probably didn’t care

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Technology

Social Media Is Warping History

February 1, 2024February 1, 2024 - by Colin Horgan

#History is huge on TikTok, where counterintuitive takes flatter users into thinking they know the “real” story

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Books

Why So Many Authors Are Writing Multigenerational Stories

January 22, 2024January 22, 2024 - by Samia Madwar

Several new books grapple with displacement and diasporic living in ways that feel particularly resonant in this moment

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Nazi Persecution Scattered My Family. A Lost Archive Brought Us Together

“I Needed to Be Doing This”: When Writers Uncover Family History

How the 1980s Engineered the Collapse of the Working Class

Finding My Grandfather, a Pilot in the Bomber Command

Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era

A Scientist’s Quest to Decode Vermeer’s True Colours

How Three Big Conspiracy Theories Took Root in Canada

The Shunned Literary Genius of Samuel Selvon

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