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Hakyaxamik*
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Hakyaxamik*

Growing up, I never knew two of my brothers — but I could picture them 

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March 2018
System Update
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System Update

Canadian courts lag so far behind in software and infrastructure, criminals are running free

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March 2018
Insult, Then Injury
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Insult, Then Injury

Researchers are finding links between racial discrimination and long-term health

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March 2018
​Plot Twist
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​Plot Twist

A new thriller reimagines the role of women in the genre

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April 2018
Styling The Senate
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Styling The Senate

One of the most despised political institutions in Canada gets a new look

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June 2019
The Rise Of Junk
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The Rise Of Junk

Science Fake publications are corrupting the world of research — and influencing real news

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June 2019
Click Bait
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Click Bait

In a campaign to protect sharks, a controversial research group is trying to disrupt traditional science

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June 2019
The Naked Truth
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The Naked Truth

My father, the secret pornographer

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June 2019
Gold Standards
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Gold Standards

It’s been one year since Tessa Virtue became the most famous figure skater in the world. How do you move on from being the best?

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May 2019
Tech Defector
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Tech Defector

RIM co-founder Jim Balsillie pushes back against the world he helped create.

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May 2019
Data Driven
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Data Driven

An archivist from British Columbia is now one of the world’s most powerful information regulators.

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May 2019
Chaos Theory
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Chaos Theory

To understand my father’s murder, I had to adapt my view of life.

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May 2019
Boomer Bust
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Boomer Bust

Millennials are getting one of the biggest tax bills in history.

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May 2019
Brunch Without Borders
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Brunch Without Borders

How NAFTA changed the way we eat

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October 2018
Uncommon Sense
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Uncommon Sense

Some doctors say intuition can help to diagnose patients—but others are skeptical

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October 2018
A Time To Speak
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A Time To Speak

In Miriam Toews’s new novel, women in an isolated Mennonite colony debate how to move forward in the aftermath of sexual assault

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October 2018
The Arithmetic Of Common Ground
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The Arithmetic Of Common Ground

IF VIEWED AS the overlap between two individual areas of experience, common ground can be seen as the darkened area of the Venn diagram in which all similarities are included and all differences are excluded. A couple first meets. Born within six months of one another, within the same medium-sized city, and of comparable socio-economic class, they automatically overlap somewhere between 33 to 35 percent.

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October 2018
Hacking Your Vote
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Hacking Your Vote

The Russian campaign to undermine Canadian democracy

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December 2018
A Place To Call Home
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A Place To Call Home

Our family came together by leaving the world behind

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December 2018
After Nafta
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After Nafta

The challenges of international negotiations with a reality-TV star

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December 2018
Overdosing Alone
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Overdosing Alone

Why big-city solutions to the opioids crisis dont work in rural communities

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November 2018
My Life And Death On Opioids
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My Life And Death On Opioids

A memoir of addiction

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September 2018
The Big Picture
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The Big Picture

Can TIFF adapt when everything about the world of cinema is changing?

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September 2018
The Future Of Biography
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The Future Of Biography

Social media is breathing new life into an esteemed literary genre

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June 2018
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The Future Of Travel

The world may be shrinking, but we’ll never tire of leaving home

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June 2018
Will the Real Céline Dion Please Stand Up?
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Will the Real Céline Dion Please Stand Up?

I went to Las Vegas to see Céline in concert. I found her everywhere

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September 2019
Wrongfully Accused
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Wrongfully Accused

Six years ago, seven health care researchers were fired by the BC government for alleged misuse of data. They’re still trying to understand what happened

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September 2019
Quebec Rewrites Its History
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Quebec Rewrites Its History

A controversial new textbook is highly selective about the province’s past

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September 2019
Manson And #MeToo
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Manson And #MeToo

New films from Quentin Tarantino and Mary Harron reflect on the Charles Manson killings— and show starkly different sides of their industry

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September 2019
The Hole Truth
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The Hole Truth

Close encounters with the scientist who taught the world about black holes

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September 2019