Culture
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My Other Mother
My nanny helped raise me. Now it’s time for me to get to know her children
3 min |
September/October 2020
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Not Recommended
What columnists have lost in the age of algorithms
10+ min |
September/October 2020
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How Pandemics Shape History
The 1918 Spanish flu changed Canada permanently. Will COVID-19 do the same?
9 min |
September/October 2020
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Beyond Bars
The case for abolishing women’s prisons
10+ min |
September/October 2020
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How To Lift A Lockdown
A prescription for reopening the country after the COVID-19 pandemic
10+ min |
July/August 2020
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Vine Intervention
BC’s bid to become the next great wine region
10+ min |
July/August 2020
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THE ONES WE CARRY WITH US
When writing fiction, it is as much about what you leave out as what you leave in. Writing a police statement seemed the same.
9 min |
July/August 2020
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LOTTERY POETRY
She retrieved a bamboo tube that contained red-tipped sticks, each with a number from one to 100.
6 min |
July/August 2020
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Sense and Sensitivity
Publishers increasingly lean on outside experts to vet books for cultural insensitivity. Is it working?
9 min |
July/August 2020
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Finding Franny
On a seventy-day canoe trip, I traced the journey of a Victorian painter
2 min |
July/August 2020
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How to Make a Solar System
What the world’s largest telescope is revealing about the birth of planets
8 min |
July/August 2020
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Hand in hand
Canada’s food banks are facing unprecedented challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, but a critical donation of hand sanitizer from the Labatt Canadian Disaster Relief Program is helping them serve communities in need
4 min |
July/August 2020
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Forgotten Disaster
Few Canadians commemorate the 1985 Air India bombing, the biggest terror attack in the country’s history
7 min |
July/August 2020
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DANCING BEAR
I remember hearing a low growl, a sound that couldn’t have come from any of the humans at the market.
10 min |
July/August 2020
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MURDER IN OLD BARNS
Why a Nova Scotia community is still looking for the killer of a beloved farmer, three decades on
10+ min |
June 2020
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Stand-Up's Next Act
On comedy’s growing generational divide
9 min |
June 2020
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Your Brain on COVID-19
Why our minds struggle to process abstract dangers
10+ min |
June 2020
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Distant Threat
Until my uncle was sent to care for patients in Wuhan, the outbreak didn’t feel real to me
3 min |
June 2020
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Inner Life
Margaux Williamson pays homage to what’s right in front of us
2 min |
June 2020
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ENVIRONMENT - Point of No Return
The climate crisis is forcing thousands around the world to flee their homes. Many can’t go back
10+ min |
June 2020
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Alone in the Universe
What space missions can teach us about mental health and isolation
7 min |
June 2020
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How To Travel With A Goldfish
My life in carry-on luggage
4 min |
March 2020
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The Age of Alpacas
A farmer in England is seeking to design the perfect wool
7 min |
March 2020
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Stay Tacky, Niagara Falls
Why I wouldn’t change a thing about my hometown
10+ min |
March 2020
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WITNESS
I WAS SMOKING on the veranda when Quammie returned from his day trip to Berbice. Everyone pronounced it Borbeace, bending the vowels while digging deep into the first syllable.
10+ min |
March 2020
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Count Me In
Why we need more health data on LGBTQ communities
6 min |
March 2020
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The East Coast Takes Off
The promise of a private spaceport fuels hope for a Nova Scotia community
10 min |
April 2020
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A Space Beyond Language
What I’ve learned from what my mother has forgotten
3 min |
April 2020
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How Should Religious Groups Respond To The Environmental Crisis?
How should religious groups respond to the environmental crisis?
9 min |
April 2020
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Go Sell It On The Mountain
Banff Centre started off as a remote artists’ retreat. Now it’s trying to help creatives adapt to the modern world
10+ min |