The Haida Nation is teaming up with New Zealand’s snipers to kill deer and save Haida Gwaii
Parks Canada and the Haida Nation may have developed a model for other places across Canada where deer continue to plague ecosystems
Society
Why our kids need to learn about residential schools
Canada systematically forced kids into residential schools – forbidden to speak their language or practice their culture. So how are teachers talking to our kids about it?
Why food guru Michael Pollan decided to feed his head with psychedelic drugs
Pollan argues that hallucinogens have ’enormous potential’ to treat depression and other mental illnesses
The decline of the Chinook salmon threatens a whole way of life
Adam Weymouth tracked the journey of the Chinook salmon by canoe—all 3,000 km of it—and returned with a new respect for the North.
The use of electronic fetal monitoring is expanding into Africa—and that’s a problem
Research says EFM fails to do what its advocates suggest, and increases the risk of caesarean birth. So why is it getting even more popular?
Why a ban on plastic straws sucks
Peter Shawn Taylor: Despite becoming the latest environmental supervillains straws are not to blame for polluting oceans, beaches or cities
To my partner, on your first Mother’s Day
Andray Domise: ’You are exactly the mother I thought you would be. Black and beautiful. Fearsomely and wonderfully made. Just as our daughters are.’
Texting people who’re driving could make you responsible if they get into a car crash
One lawyer says it’s similar to when a party host is held responsible for allowing their guest to drive home drunk
Canada was warned of the coming Holocaust. We turned away 900 Jewish refugees, anyway.
Canada knew. Britain knew. The U.S. knew. They knew because a Jewish trade unionist warned them what was coming. Today marks the 75th anniversary of his suicide.
A criminal investigation into opioid marketing would expose larger systemic rot
Demand for a probe into how OxyContin was promoted in Canada would also expose flaws in drug regulation and the tight relationship between industry and medicine. That’s why it’s needed