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Schools vs. Screens

This fall, provinces from coast to coast confidently announced that they were banning phones in the classroom. It’s not going well.
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Tourism at the End of the World

Canada is one of the world’s hottest destinations for travellers who want to see vanishing places before they’re gone. But is the last-chance tourism trend just accelerating their decline?
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Inside the Fight for the Ring of Fire

In Ontario’s hinterlands, a battle is brewing between First Nations, prospectors and the provincial government over a multi-billion-dollar motherlode of metals
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The Gender War in the Classroom

Several provincial governments now mandate parental consent for kids to change pronouns in schools. Who gets to decide a child’s gender?