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Movie monopoly

Jake Pitre

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

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Housing handcuffs

Rachel Cairns

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

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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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When we disappear

Emily Yu

For us acrobats, it was a circus rule to choose our primary apparatus at the age of thirteen. The doors opened to the Big Top and I entered alone. The leftover sawdust on the floor stuck between my toes, the air scented with rain, instead of the usual smells of animal dung and stale popcorn. […]
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Losing their religion

Sam Firman

After leaving the faith, many ex-Mormons need to find community again. Psychedelics offer a way forward

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An old-fashioned library card system from the back of a library book is stamped with the word BANNED in all caps

The right to read

Asha Swann

Canadian libraries may be in danger as calls to ban books get louder

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Two workers stand in the background. In the foreground is a table of sweets with placards between them reading "respect" and "dignity."

Catering to capitalism

Lital Khaikin

How the informalization of hospitality labour is hurting workers

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A love letter to Brown people in Vancouver

Shanai Tanwar

During this spike in racism, I hope we look out for each other

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The Gala Date

Michelle Poirier Brown

We met them first near the hot food. The catering staff were serving a dim sum shrimp dumpling on a bed of rice at the near end of the table. The caterers must have brought hundreds of ramekins to the venue that night, there was an endless stream of them, a new one for each […]
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On the plus side

Megan Hunt

Rather than relying on fast fashion, fat folks are creating their own clothing economies

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Under the sea, many zebra mussels cling to a fallen log or other submerged object

Muscling through

Neha Chollangi

Invasive mussels could soon enter B.C.'s waterways. If they do, it would be a disaster

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Skate culture

Ayesha Habib

How one collective is empowering Indigenous youth

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Liar

Waseem Haja

When I was eight years old, my parents entrusted me with $16 in the form of eight $2 coins, an allowance for a school field trip to La Ronde, Montreal’s amusement park. Until 1996, the year during which the $2 tender in Canada was converted from a paper bill to a coin, my parents would […]
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