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Just before Canada Day, Parliament passed Bill C‑5, officially the One Canadian Economy Act. At its core is the Building Canada Act, a sweeping law that gives the federal government new powers to fast ...
“P eople tell me, whenever they see me on TV, they know it’s bad news,” says Pascal Chan with a grim little laugh. As one of ...
Attuning ourselves to the vibrations of the elderly, the dying, and the dead might be a valuable skill for fans of artistic ...
First Nations are involved too: since 2014, the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Farm has supplied the Dawson area with fresh produce such ...
Explore how tariffs are testing ties between Northern neighbours, the death of the middle class musician, Afghanistan’s lost generation, and more. The Walrus is located within the bounds of Treaty 13 ...
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When Jessie was born, in 2001, his father died suddenly, leaving his mother to raise two young children alone. Around this ...
D escending into Diavik is like landing on a distant moon, the world sealed in a hard sheet of ice and snow stretching in every direction. The plane circled a few times and then slid into a landing ...
Y WE TRAVEL. Why do we travel? For too long, we took this question for granted. Travel can make our large world small, and we forgot what a gift this is until it all got taken awa ...
Jeremy Thomas Gilmer is a writer of short fiction and nonfiction. He lives in Saint John, New Brunswick.
Canada Created a Cold War Isolation Laboratory. It Ended in Scandal Researchers promised breakthroughs in psychology—until rumours of brainwashing took over ...