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Author: Jordan Heath-Rawlings

If Canada’s residential schools reckoning is real this time, what happens next?

There have been promises in the past. And committees, and commitments and commissions and no shortage of apologies. But in the wake of the 215

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June 8, 2021

Trudeau’s Liberals promised to end the blood ban. Now they say it’s “complicated”.

The promise was pretty clear: During his first successful campaign as Liberal leader, Justin Trudeau told LGBT voters that we would end Canada’s longstanding ban

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June 7, 2021

What happens when the media fights back in a battle with the RCMP?

Every time there’s a protest, or dispute, or anything else newsworthy in rural Canada, the media shows up to cover it. And runs into the

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June 4, 2021

Our pandemic’s ending here. And almost nowhere else.

Less than one percent of the 1.8-billion Covid-19 vaccines used so far have gone to low-income countries. And in those countries new variants are emerging

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June 3, 2021

Will the Olympics go ahead as planned? Should they?

Less than two months from now, unless something changes, the postponed 2020 Olympics will begin in Tokyo, Japan. Unless the country’s government listens to both

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June 2, 2021

What does Pride look like in small-town Canada?

Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal … Canada truly has some of the world’s biggest and most beautiful Pride celebrations. But it also has some of the smallest.

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June 1, 2021

Why doesn’t Canadian health care include dental coverage?

It’s always been this way but … why? When it comes to everything from routine cleaning appointments and checkups to more complicated procedures like abscesses

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May 31, 2021

Why online conspiracies aren’t just a QAnon problem

This is the story of a Jeopardy! contestant who made a white supremacist gesture on the program. Only he didn’t. But that didn’t stop thousands

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May 28, 2021

Is Greyhound’s exit a tragedy or an opportunity?

After nearly a century of moving Canadians between rural towns and big cities, Greyhound Canada announced last week it would end all Canadian routes. This

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May 27, 2021

A terrifying medical mystery in New Brunswick

When people started presenting with symptoms, local doctors and scientists wondered if the mysterious neurological disorder might be Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. But it wasn’t. It wasn’t

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