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Dying with dignity

Sonia Persaud

Racialized immigrants are receiving worse end-of-life care

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Women in waiting

Meg Collins

Trans refugees are no longer finding safe haven in Canada

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A thinly veiled attack

Daniyah Yaqoob

With Quebec’s Bill 94 and Law 21, Muslim women face an impossible choice

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Interrogating the Indian Act

Evelyn Ullyott Hayes

Why the Act is still around, and what needs to change

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Alberta’s secession movement is deeply anti-queer

Mace Elsher

“My rights would be totally in question”

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Mean Girls meets horror

Sarah Regan

Ava Maria Safai’s Foreigner confronts the immigrant nightmare

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The bare minimum

Shanai Tanwar

Canadian Quakers advocate for a guaranteed livable basic income

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Meditations on the many gifts of joblessness

Mehak Aggarwal

Losing my job turned out to be the thing I needed to grow

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Working it out

Josie Fomé

Black Theatre Workshop play tells an all-too-familiar immigrant story

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From the roots

Gabrielle Cole

How Juno Award–winning artist Quique Escamilla stays connected to his cultural history

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Who owns your building?

Lauren Bennett

Advocates say the next step toward housing transparency is public access to landlord registries

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The wrong chord

Christopher Spicer

How public schools in Canada are failing the arts

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David and the train

Jackson Weaver

The train went by, with Ben seated there on his bike, staring after it

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Gen zine

Liz Worth

DIY publishing sees a youthful resurgence

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The year of the “Wasian”

Eliza Lee

Social media is turning Asian-white identity into an aesthetic

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A community uprooted

Adeline Panamaroff

An urban farm in Edmonton is forced to move

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Up in smoke

Nancy Dutra

Tracking the damage caused by wildfires in 2025

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A family affair

Kyla Cassandra Cortez

Montrealers make a cheeky magazine just for kids

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