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The cold, hard truth

Asha Swann

The Yukon is warming faster than anywhere else in the world. It's causing irreversible damage to Indigenous communities

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Movie monopoly

Jake Pitre

Canada's independent theatres, scrappy as ever, still need help

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Vagina dialogues

Jac D.B.

Has the internet killed feminist health activism?

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Housing handcuffs

Rachel Cairns

As rent becomes less affordable, a would-be mom searches for solutions

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An illustration of six green hands holding scissors or strands of brown hair. In the center of the hair is a closed eye crying tears.

Delilah

Bianca Bernstein

You wake up ready for some self care. You stretch, scrape your tongue. Sit still tracking your breath. You’ve been working hard. You need a dose of freshness. What you need is a haircut, and today’s the day you booked one. How timely. As you sip the froth off your oat milk latte, you imagine […]
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A photo of a hand holding up the inside cover page of Pride and Prejudice. It has been annotated with doodles. A bag full of books is out of focus in the background.

To all the books I’ve loved before

Rita Simonetta

Millenials and Gen Zers hone the art of annotating

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An image of a torn Palestinian flag. Behind the tear is a concrete wall with the shadow of a pregnant person.

On motherhood and activism through a genocide

Zehra Kamani

A new mother reflects on connecting with Palestinians through faith

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QTs unite

Ashleigh-Rae Thomas

Queer and trans fat folks create community in New Brunswick

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An photo of a South Asian woman with a white background. The woman has long, black hair. She is wearing a black turtleneck and beaded hoop earrings.

Changing the narrative

Alisha Mughal

Consulting firm supports Indigenous sovereignty

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White lies

Naima Karp

Looking back at her family's traditions, one writer realizes brown women are often eclipsed in Bollywood

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Archiving Palestine

Sarah Samuel

How Palestinian women use embroidery to resist

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A sticker on a Halifax lamppost reads "Boycott Israeli Apartheid" over a Palestinian flag

From the river to the street

Saffina Jinnah

In small Canadian cities, street art fuels Palestinian resistance

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Move us out and we’ll move on over you

Adebe DeRango-Adem

Toronto needs housing for Black artists

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A pair of fraternal twins standing next to a hospital bed and wearing identical sweater vests holds a flatlined electrocardiogram floating in mid air.

Mort à Deux

Gabrielle Cole

During my second year of college, we killed our father. It was his own idea, but it was Charlie’s idea to do it the week before Christmas. Later, I would regret that we hadn’t waited until afterward. Charlie said that Christmas would have depressed the hell out of us regardless and anyway, it was too […]
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Serving liberation

Shanai Tanwar

How food is feeding the Palestinian cause

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