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Justice

How Racism Fuels Ineffective Gun Control

December 3, 2018November 14, 2019 - by Angela Wright

Bias has influenced our ideas of those who shoot versus those who are shot

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Justice

Why I Wish I Never Reported My Assault

October 16, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Christine Estima

After a stressful year of navigating the justice system, I now feel that staying silent might have yielded the same results

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Illustration of Two Men Yelling at Each Other
Society

I Am the Type of Man Who Gets into Fist Fights—and Likes It

May 2, 2018March 29, 2022 - by Daemon Fairless

The capacity for violence sometimes makes men feel whole. What are they supposed to do about it?

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Illustration of a Woman Walking Through Forest with Determination
April 2018 / Books

How One Writer Is Using Thrillers to Explore Misogyny

March 27, 2018March 27, 2020 - by Merve Emre

Elisabeth de Mariaffi’s first novel taught women how to get away. Her new novel teaches them how to fight back

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Photograph of a candlelight vigil held at the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton on Monday evening, January 30, 2017 for the people who were killed and wounded in the shooting at a Québec City mosque.
Current Affairs

Remembering the Quebec City Mosque Shooting

January 29, 2018February 19, 2022 - by The Walrus

On the one-year anniversary, we gather some of our most important stories about the event, its aftermath, and religious worship in Canada

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Film

The Fair and Foul of Adaptation

December 18, 2015January 2, 2020 - by Amanda Cockburn

Violence and PTSD take centre stage in Justin Kurzel’s ​Macbeth

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Media

Calm in the Storm

October 29, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Jared Young

A block away from the Ottawa shootings, online news extinguished the panic before it could start

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September 2014 / Sports

Skin in the Game

September 3, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Will Di Novi

A conflicted fan comes to grips with the violence of football

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May 2011 / World

All for Uno

May 12, 2011April 19, 2020 - by Arno Kopecky

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