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December 21, 2024 Winter 2024 Movie monopoly Canada's independent theatres, scrappy as ever, still need help Jake Pitre ...

Bill S-210 has an arresting title compared to the majority of those passing through the various levels of government in order to become law: “Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act.

Every day a member of the Kinonjeoshtegon First Nation drives 70 kilometres from Lake Winnipeg’s western shore to a store in Dallas/Red Rose, Man. to buy 40 20-litre jugs of drinking water. That water ...

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This isn’t just happening in southern states. In Michigan, the Patmos Library nearly lost 84 percent of its funding after the town’s residents voted twice that taxpayer money shouldn’t support the ...

But Saskatchewan is about as large and sparsely populated as it gets, and somehow the province’s government-run telecom, SaskTel, offers cheaper plans with the same high speeds and fewer data caps ...

Founded by a gang of school activists in 1966, and originally called This Magazine is About Schools, This Magazine is one of Canada’s oldest alternative journals. Fiercely independent and proudly ...

In Toronto’s Chinatown, an average morning goes on as usual, with longtime business owners setting up shop and elderly residents chatting loudly in local bakeries. But underneath the mundanity lies ...

May 18, 2018 May-June 2018 Canada’s pioneer myth Canadians are raised to be proud of our history, attending festivals, fairs, and field trips to learn more about our colonial past. But our collective ...

May 16, 2023 March-April 2023 All the lonely people The discourse has moved on since the lockdowns lifted, but Canada’s loneliness epidemic remains Yasmin Afshar ...

“This industry is corrupt,” Lisa Milne, owner of The Royal Theatre in Trail, B.C. (population 7,920), told me, referring to the film exhibition industry in Canada, before I’d even been able to start ...