“Made a Difference to My Whole Existence”: Why Childhood Reading Matters
Books are the platform on which everything else is built
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Canada Has Spent Over a Century Avoiding Collapse. Can It Keep Going?
Our stability is more fragile than it looks
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Welcome to University. Good Luck Finding a Place to Live
Students are being forced to choose between brutal commutes and luxury condos they can’t afford
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“Guaranteed Jobs” That Don’t Exist: The Dark World of Immigration Consultants
Canada has an insatiable demand for cheap labour. Workers are being lured here with schemes and lies
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Nazi Persecution Scattered My Family. A Lost Archive Brought Us Together
How 10,000 pages of documents sent me on a journey through Germany’s dark past
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I Lost My Son to Addiction. No, Privilege Didn’t Protect Him
He had a loving family, financial support, and the best treatment. He fell victim to an overdose anyway
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The New Patron Saints of Lesbian Fiction
Why the best queer writers are throwing plot out of the window
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Breaking the Rules of Gay Fiction, One Riotous Page at a Time
Brontez Purnell’s work burns with a frantic blend of lyricism and lewdness, desire and disgust
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Schvitzing at the Sauna like a Sucker
Can Othership and other urban bathhouses really cure loneliness?
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The Politics of “Common Sense” Is Making Us Meaner
Cutting services is treated like conventional wisdom. But it has led to a world that fails many of us
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