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Literary life after death: How authors are remembered across Canada
By celebrating our authors — especially on Canada Day — we honour their role in shaping, illuminating, and preserving our unique Canadian culture.
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How padel disrupted the genteel world of lawn tennis
Padel’s rise has not been met with unbridled enthusiasm.
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Summer camps remain a battleground over what it means to be American
At a time when Americans disagree deeply over the meaning of citizenship, belonging and education, summer camps remain places where visions of the nation are communicated to young people.
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Why a Supreme Court case over a haircut could be a setback for religious liberty
Landor v. Louisiana highlights the religious rights of the nearly 2 million people imprisoned in the US – and how challenging it can be to protect those rights.
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Uzbekistan’s World Cup appearance is a moment of pride and shows off central Asia’s peaceful development
Once described as the ‘Balkans of central Asia’, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have managed ethnic and territorial tensions with great success.
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Does the World Cup favor democratic or autocratic nations? I did some number crunching to find out
Hosting the FIFA World Cup games can prove a propaganda win for authoritarian nations. But the data suggests the tournament favors democracies.
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This is the story that Trump and the West doesn’t want you to know
ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean Across my social media platforms, I encounter daily a particular brand of ignorance that I find increasingly impossible to ignore. Iran is dismissed as a crazy country ruled by medieval mullahs, its people caricatured as fanatics who chant “Death to America” for no coherent reason. And from that caricature flows a
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The Socceroos’ World Cup dream continues, as an improved performance delivers plenty of confidence
It wasn’t pretty, but the Socceroos are through to the knockout stages of the World Cup after a tense stalemate against Paraguay.
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Want to be a better reader? Here’s how to practise active reading
Most people absorb social media content without questioning it. Switching to active reading is one of the most practical defences against misinformation.
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The class divide in British politics didn’t erode slowly – it collapsed under New Labour
But the shift has more to do with how parties behave than any changes in the class system.
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Hockey Night in Canada: It’s game over for NHL hockey on CBC, but a new era beckons
There’s a historical relationship between CBC and Canada’s game, and there are opportunities ahead despite the end of ‘Hockey Night in Canada.’
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Caps are coming for domestic uni places, but the government also wants to grow student numbers. Can this work?
Federal Education Minister Jason Clare has introduced a bill under which universities face new caps on their domestic student numbers.