#Gabor Maté: Go ahead, blame your childhood

#Gabor Maté: Go ahead, blame your childhood

“Gabor Maté: Go ahead, blame your childhood” Gabor Maté has had an unusual life. Long before his rise to ubiquity as a medical maverick—and a darling of the podcast circuit—Maté left Hungary for Canada with his Holocaust-survivor parents in 1956, and later spent more than a decade working as an addictions specialist on Vancouver’s Downtown…

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#Unifor’s Lana Payne is taking on the fight for workers

#Unifor’s Lana Payne is taking on the fight for workers

“Unifor’s Lana Payne is taking on the fight for workers” Canada’s labour movement is ripe for a resurgence after decades of stagnant wages—not to mention the health-and-safety nightmare that was the pandemic. Leading the charge is Unifor, the country’s largest private-sector union, which represents more than 315,000 employees. Recently, Unifor made headlines for its own…

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#Why Wes Hall is betting on Black entrepreneurs

#Why Wes Hall is betting on Black entrepreneurs

“Why Wes Hall is betting on Black entrepreneurs” Don’t let the fancy suits fool you. For Wes Hall, the self-styled “King of Bay Street,” and the first Black Dragon on CBC’s Dragons’ Den, the path to success has been hard-won. He grew up with his 14 siblings in a tin shack under the care of…

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#Louise Arbour is fighting to reform Canada’s military

#Louise Arbour is fighting to reform Canada’s military

“Louise Arbour is fighting to reform Canada’s military” Louise Arbour, a former Supreme Court justice and United Nations high commissioner for human rights, has spent her career taking on the world’s most notorious human rights violators. And yet one of her most formidable challenges is domestic. In May, Arbour released the results of her year-long…

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#Emily St. John Mandel can’t stop writing about pandemics

#Emily St. John Mandel can’t stop writing about pandemics

“Emily St. John Mandel can’t stop writing about pandemics” In 2014, the Canadian-American author Emily St. John Mandel was catapulted to fame by her fourth novel, Station Eleven, a remarkable portrayal of a horrific flu pandemic that kills 99 per cent of humanity, and of the travelling troupe of Shakespearean actors who visit settlements around the…

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#Murray Sinclair on reconciliation, anger, unmarked graves—and a headline for this story

#Murray Sinclair on reconciliation, anger, unmarked graves—and a headline for this story

“#Murray Sinclair on reconciliation, anger, unmarked graves—and a headline for this story” I caught up with Murray Sinclair, the former chairman of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in the midst of a national reckoning over this summer’s discovery of hundreds of gravesites where Indigenous children are believed to be buried. Sinclair has…

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#How beavers caused a Canadian town to lose internet

#How beavers caused a Canadian town to lose internet

“#How beavers caused a Canadian town to lose internet” Leave it to beavers to force one rural Canadian community further off the grid by gnawing through the town’s fiber-optic cable, leaving about 900 residents without internet or mobile cellular access. In a “very bizarre and uniquely Canadian turn of events,” one or more of the…

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