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How Netflix’s ‘Little House on the Prairie’ expands the book and TV series for today
By providing a more expansive ‘Little House’ world, the show respects Wilder’s writing while redressing racist depictions.
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Wealthsimple’s new prediction markets app exposes gaps in Canada’s gambling protections
Wealthsimple is launching a CIRO-approved prediction markets app soon. The evidence suggests most traders lose money, and the products look a lot like gambling.
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Catherine Opie: To Be Seen – who gets to be visible, belong and be remembered?
Opie has redefined portraiture by bringing overlooked communities into sharp focus.
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Prisoner release: Andy Burnham’s difficult choices
With no clear plan to manage sentencing inflation, one option becomes to release prisoners early.
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The Ceuta border incident shows how EU migration can be ‘weaponised’ – but overall levels are declining
The Ceuta crossing is just one part of the wider migration story in the Mediterranean.
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Abuse and silence in South Africa’s classical music culture: what a student’s story reveals
Not even the #MeToo movement and a reckoning with sexual abuse could rupture the sound-proof walls of South African classical music.
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Zed Beats: how home studios reinvented Zambian pop music and gave young people a voice
Zed Beats artists aren’t known for political songs, but they’ve become so popular that they’re used to mobilise voters during elections.
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Self defence action by Iran ‘first truly consequential action’ by state, says human rights lawyer
The Electronic Intifada Israel and Iran are unique for starkly different reasons — Israel has less of a right to exist than any other country, while Iran is the only country that has stood up against the assault on international law by the US, Israel and their allies. That is according to Craig Mokhiber’s comments
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Canada is becoming less accepting of gender diversity, new Statistics Canada data shows
Public support for trans and gender-diverse people is declining, and that decline is being driven by political and media discourse.
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Why Gen Z turns everything – even murder – into a joke
A psychologist explains why dark political humor doesn’t prove young people are nihilistic, but rather reveals what happens when moral seriousness no longer feels credible.
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Russia is trying to force Ukrainian children to become Russian, with reeducation, forcible transfers and camps
Russia is not just moving Ukrainian children. It is taking away their identities. Will the $25 million being spent by the US to locate and rehabilitate forcibly transferred children be enough?
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Trump administration’s Freedom 250 organization allegedly misdirected donors away from bipartisan America250 charity
An accounting scholar explains what charitable solicitation fraud is and how it’s connected to allegations some Democratic lawmakers made on July 2, 2026.