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Personal Essays

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If it weren’t for my education, I’d be merely normal | READ HOW I SURVIVED MY EDUCATION.

When I was a teenager, my grandmother told me: stay in school and don’t get married until you are thirty. Her advice guided my entire life | READ MY GRANDMOTHER.

As I look back across the years and over the landscape of my childhood, one egregious figure visible on the distant field is the school bully | READ THE BULLIES.

My grandfather rarely referred to his years at the Mush Hole, where hunger drove him to dig for potatoes by moonlight | READ THE MUSH HOLE.

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The Arts

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What did the peasant literary genius really think about Russian society? | READ READING CHEKHOV’S STORIES.

Why I’ve had a life-long fascination with Goya | READ GOYA AND ME.

Hemingway is said to have read his obituary each morning with a glass of champagne | READ THE OBITUARY.

Whether you love him or hate him, he changed popular music | READ JOHN LENNON.

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History

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How Canada tried to solve its “Indian Problem” | READ CANADA’S INDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SYSTEM.

In the 1950s, Canada moved twenty-two Inuit families thousands of kilometres to the barren landscapes of Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord | READ THE HIGH ARCTIC RELOCATION.

The Roma have been persecuted throughout history, and it’s time we acknowledged it | READ ROMA AND THE DEBTS OF HISTORY.

Here’s why you won’t learn about what really happened in Indian residential schools from Canada’s archives | READ HOW TO LOOK AT CANADA’S RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL ARCHIVES.

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Politics

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One usually makes you feel pretty good, and the other always makes you feel like the world is full of shits | READ A VIEW FROM THE STADIUM: POLITICS AND SPORT.

Did you know that Disney makes leftist propaganda? Here’s how they do it | READ DEMOCRACY A LA DISNEY.

His timeless message is that your neighbour has the right to piss you off | READ THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BERTRAND RUSSELL.

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