Culture
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Access Denied
From endless bureaucracy to in-person requirements, universities are shutting out disabled students and staff
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March/April 2026
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Return to Portapique
My partner murdered 22 people in a shooting rampage. Months later, I went back to our home to show police how I escaped
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March/April 2026
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Trust Me
Evan Solomon wants Canadians to believe AI is a force for good
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March/April 2026
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All Office, No Work
Back-to-office mandates were never about productivity. They're about control
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March/April 2026
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How to Pronounce KING
Souvankham Thammavongsatwo-time winner of the Giller Prizedoesn't mind if you're jealous of her career
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March/April 2026
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Face Value
What does it mean to really look at another human being?
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March/April 2026
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MY GUILTY PLEASURE
DURING THE PANDEMIC, everyone wanted a puppy. Then people tired of their dogs. Puppy mills couldn’t find homes for their litters, and those churning out doodles had too many breeding poodles on hand. While searching for my own pandemic puppy, I stumbled upon a poodle rescue group on Facebook. From fostering a few dozen dogs annually, the rescue was, a couple of years into the pandemic, trying to find homes for more than a hundred over the course of a year.
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March/April 2026
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The Fight Over Canada's Most Valuable Fish
Priced at thousands of dollars per kilogram, baby eels have set off a global frenzy
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March/April 2026
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The Lost Epic
An exclusive excerpt from Yann Martel's new novel
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March/April 2026
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Leave the Kids Alone
The controversy over free-range parenting
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March/April 2026
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Even Pigeons Are Beautiful
I CAN TRACE MY personal descent into what science journalist Ed Yong calls “birder derangement syndrome” back to when I started referring to myself as a “sewage lagoon aficionado.
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September/October 2025
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MY GUILTY PLEASURE
BLAME IT ON my love of language, and blame that on my dad—the “it” being my unhealthy need for the stories of P. G. Wodehouse. The witty, wonderful, meandering, wisecracking tales of Jeeves and Bertie; Empress of Blandings (a prize pig) and her superbly oblivious champion, the ninth Earl; Mr. Mulliner; and the rest. Jeeves, the erudite, infallible, not to mention outrageously loyal valet to Bertram Wooster, the quite undeserving but curiously endearing man about town, is likely the most famous of these characters. But they’re all terrific, I assure you.
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September/October 2025
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When It's All Too Much
What photography teaches me about surviving the news cycle
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September/October 2025
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Annexation, Eh
The United States badly needs rare minerals and fresh water. Guess who has them?
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September/October 2025
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We travel to transform ourselves
I grew up in Quebec during the time of the two solitudes, when the French rarely spoke to the English and anglophones could live and work in the province for decades without having to learn a word of French.
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September/October 2025
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How to Win an 18th-Century Swordfight
Duelling makes a comeback
9 min |
September/October 2025
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Getting Things Right
How Mavis Gallant turned fact into truth
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June 2025
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Mi Amor
Spanish was the first language I was shown love in. It's shaped my understanding of parenthood
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June 2025
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Odd Woman Out
Premier Danielle Smith is on Team Canada —for now
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June 2025
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My GUILTY PLEASURE
THERE IS NO PLEASURE quite like a piece of gossip blowing in on the wind.
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June 2025
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Cult of Lies
Conspiracies, murder, and the tragic end to a controversial Jamaican church
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June 2025
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We travel for the challenge
Paradise is overrated.
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June 2025
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Rebels with a Vase
How to buy flowers without destroying the planet
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June 2025
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What Counts as Antisemitism?
Jewish Canadians face the challenge of confronting, and defining, hate
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June 2025
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Return to Damascus
After fourteen years away, I came back to a home I barely recognized
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June 2025
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HOW TO SAVE CANADA
We're going to have to work hard and fast - to avoid becoming Trump's fifty-first state
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June 2025
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The Miraculous Return of Khalid from the Dead
TWO MONTHS AFTER the government sent back his identity card in an envelope with no return address, Khalid knocked on his family's door in the wee hours of an early August day.
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July/August 2025
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We travel to heal
A SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT FROM TORONTO PEARSON AND THE CANADIAN AIRPORTS COUNCIL
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July/August 2025
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Rage against the Publishing Machine
For nearly 30 years, Nova Scotia’s Gaspereau defied the market. Now its owners are moving on, closing the chapter on one of Canada’s most uncompromising publishers
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July/August 2025
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Afghanistan's Lost Generation
The Taliban are turning boys’ schools into jihadist training grounds
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