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The tragic story of a Canadian vaccine trailblazer
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The tragic story of a Canadian vaccine trailblazer

Maurice Brodie was the first person to develop a working polio vaccine. He was cast as a dashing young hero, and celebrated in the U.S., until it all came crashing down.
Mary Lawson: Why I write about the Canadian Shield

Mary Lawson: Why I write about the Canadian Shield

The Canadian novelist on her profound, unreasoning love of the landscape: ’The the way the mist lifted slowly off the lake in the early morning, the smoothness of water sliding over your skin, the clear looping call of the whippoorwill’
Taking MAiD way too far

Taking MAiD way too far

Gabrielle Peters: The effort to widen eligibility for MAiD to include disabled people who are not actually dying is dangerous, unsettling and deeply flawed