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Stories that have audio components. In many cases, these are stories that have been read aloud by our partners at AMI.

A group of monarch butterflies resting on a tree branch in their winter nesting area.
Environment

The Butterfly Effect

July 29, 2020October 13, 2020 - by Sherina Harris

Climate change can feel impossible to solve. But, as monarchs show, small actions can have world-altering results

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Illustration of a couple sitting at a restaurant table in front of a blue sky–printed curtain. The curtain is slightly pulled back as a waiter emerges; behind it is the inner workings of a restaurant kitchen.
Business / September/October 2020

Is Dining Out Dead?

July 23, 2020August 21, 2020 - by Corey Mintz

Some experts predict that 60 percent of restaurants won’t survive the lockdown. Here’s what chefs, owners, and their employees are doing to stay alive

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A close-up photo of a tick perched on a large green leaf
Science / September/October 2020

Invasion of the Ticks

July 21, 2020September 9, 2020 - by Stephanie Nolen

Inside the quest to track one of humanity’s tiniest deadly predators

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Illustration of white and blue light trails, in the vague shape of a person, against a black background.
Fiction / July/August 2020

The Ones We Carry With Us

July 20, 2020July 23, 2020 - by Sara O'Leary

Here’s the thing I now know about dying. It looks like almost anything else

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An illustration of a classroom, in which a teacher erases a blackboard. A Black student is seated in front of the board and the student's head is also being erased by the chalkboard eraser.
Society

Stop Whitewashing Our National History

July 13, 2020October 13, 2020 - by Tayo Bero

Canada likes to brand itself as tolerant, multicultural, and benevolent. Black communities know that’s not true

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Illustration of a hand, palm-up, with bright lines drawn across it in light.
Fiction / July/August 2020

Lottery Poetry

July 9, 2020July 10, 2020 - by Kevin Chong

No business felt more ridiculous, in those spring days of the pandemic, than fortune-telling did

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Terra Cognita

The Hungry People

June 29, 2020July 23, 2020 - by Robert Jago

Europeans like to go on about the innovations colonizers brought to the Americas. But what of the innovations they took away?

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A layered photo of the artist and her mother as a child, against a translucent background.
July/August 2020 / Society

Remembering the Air India Bombing

June 23, 2020July 23, 2020 - by Jordan Michael Smith

Thirty-five years later, few Canadians seem to acknowledge the largest terrorist attack in their country’s history

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Illustration of a bear standing on its hind legs. It is wearing a muzzle on its head and its eyes are glowing. Behind it, a fire is burning against a dark night.
July/August 2020 / Memoir

Dancing Bear

June 18, 2020December 8, 2020 - by Dimitri Nasrallah

In this memoir, a child and his family leave Lebanon for Athens

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An illustrated map of several different regions in BC, depicting a variety of human and animal life and flora.
Business / July/August 2020

What Does It Take to Become a Wine Superpower?

June 16, 2020July 16, 2020 - by Ellen Himelfarb

On British Columbia’s bid to be the Napa Valley of the North

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