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January/February 2021 / Memoir

My Struggle with Sobriety

January 6, 2021January 29, 2021 - by Mel Lefebvre

The decision to quit drinking was the right one for me. But, as I have learned, there’s no perfect way to do it

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January/February 2021 / Politics

China Wants to Invest in the Arctic. Why Doesn’t Canada?

January 4, 2021January 29, 2021 - by Gloria Dickie

While Canada ignores the North’s economic potential, China is poised to make inroads

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First Person / January/February 2021

Why My Mother’s Cassava Pie Is More than a Comfort Food

December 11, 2020January 29, 2021 - by Stephanie Wong Ken

Learning the history of resistance behind my family’s favourite dish

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January/February 2021 / Living Rooms

How to Save the Middle Class

December 2, 2020January 29, 2021 - by Max Fawcett

Our vision of the good life is stuck in the twentieth century. It’s time to reinvent it—starting with home ownership

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January/February 2021 / Society

The Case for Affordable Child Care

December 1, 2020January 29, 2021 - by Anne Shibata Casselman

For decades, we’ve known that universal child care would advance the nation. What’s taking Canada so long?

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Health / January/February 2021

Return of the Anti-Vaxers

November 24, 2020January 29, 2021 - by Paul Gallant

To those who think vaccines are harmful, COVID-19 is just another conspiracy

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Living Rooms

You Can’t Run Away from Homesickness

November 18, 2020January 29, 2021 - by Melissa J. Gismondi

What it means to miss home in our globalized, climate-changed world

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Living Rooms

The Rise of the Roommate

November 11, 2020January 29, 2021 - by Kelli María Korducki

Burnt-out and debt-ridden, my generation is poised to change the household as we know it—maybe even for the better

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January/February 2021 / Justice

The New Lobster Wars

November 10, 2020January 29, 2021 - by Zoe Heaps Tennant

Inside the decades-long East Coast battle between fishers and the federal government over Mi’kmaw treaty rights

November/December 2020 / Visual Art

My Mum and Mister Rogers

November 3, 2020January 29, 2021 - by Cinders McLeod

Fred Rogers believed everybody was somebody. A box of lost letters tells the story of how he helped my mother believe in herself too