According to the legends of the Abenaki people of present-day Maine and Quebec, when the Creator brought maple sap into the world, it spouted out of tree trunks as pure sugar. People would abandon their households and responsibilities to spend entire...
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According to the legends of the Abenaki people of present-day Maine and Quebec, when the Creator brought maple sap into the world, it spouted out of tree trunks as pure sugar. People would abandon their households and responsibilities to spend entire...
Last year, the number of international students attending American universities stood at just over one million—a staggering figure reflective of the country’s draw as an educational hub. Through tuition, transportation, and other spending, this g...
Last year, the number of international students attending American universities stood at just over one million—a staggering figure reflective of the country’s draw as an educational hub. Through tuition, transportation, and other spending, this g...
This year, 54,000 immigrant visa recipients in the United States got here by winning a game. They took a seat at the table, placed their bets, and got the luck of the draw. They won the diversity visa lottery. Every year, more than 11 million p...
This year, 54,000 immigrant visa recipients in the United States got here by winning a game. They took a seat at the table, placed their bets, and got the luck of the draw. They won the diversity visa lottery. Every year, more than 11 million p...
In resource-rich countries, achieving substantive environmental reform can be incompatible with the potential profits of oil and natural gas corporations. This is especially true in Canada and Russia, two of the largest suppliers of oil and natural g...
In resource-rich countries, achieving substantive environmental reform can be incompatible with the potential profits of oil and natural gas corporations. This is especially true in Canada and Russia, two of the largest suppliers of oil and natural g...
Almost no one, least of all Canadians, expected that something like this could happen in our country. A year ago, I packed up my childhood bedroom and hauled my belongings across the border to begin my college education in the United States. Three da...
Almost no one, least of all Canadians, expected that something like this could happen in our country. A year ago, I packed up my childhood bedroom and hauled my belongings across the border to begin my college education in the United States. Three da...
How Canada can end long-term water advisories for First Nations communities This morning, I woke up feeling quite thirsty. “Well,” I thought, “that’s an easy fix.” I got out of bed, grabbed my mug, went to the bathroom, and filled...
How Canada can end long-term water advisories for First Nations communities This morning, I woke up feeling quite thirsty. “Well,” I thought, “that’s an easy fix.” I got out of bed, grabbed my mug, went to the bathroom, and filled...
If the first thing you see when you picture Canada is a lush, progressive, free healthcare utopia, you would not be alone. The country’s international reputation generally ranges from benign acknowledgement to outright veneration. What’s more, Ca...
If the first thing you see when you picture Canada is a lush, progressive, free healthcare utopia, you would not be alone. The country’s international reputation generally ranges from benign acknowledgement to outright veneration. What’s more, Ca...
Although Canada’s recent federal election was anticlimactic, it demonstrated the ways that Canada’s first-past-the-post electoral system distorts the will of voters. By the end of election night on September 20, 2021, the Canadian House of Common...
Although Canada’s recent federal election was anticlimactic, it demonstrated the ways that Canada’s first-past-the-post electoral system distorts the will of voters. By the end of election night on September 20, 2021, the Canadian House of Common...
Among the flurry of executive orders signed by Joe Biden on his first day as President was the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have moved oil extracted from tar sands in Alberta to Port Arthur, Texas, where it could be shipped i...
Among the flurry of executive orders signed by Joe Biden on his first day as President was the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have moved oil extracted from tar sands in Alberta to Port Arthur, Texas, where it could be shipped i...
Canadian politics have been weird lately. Always overshadowed by the circus to the south, Canadian politics tend to be tame, even boring. But 2020 had other plans for Canada, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suspending Parliament for more than five...
Canadian politics have been weird lately. Always overshadowed by the circus to the south, Canadian politics tend to be tame, even boring. But 2020 had other plans for Canada, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suspending Parliament for more than five...
Over the summer, former Cigna executive Wendell Potter made headlines for exposing the misinformation campaigns that corporate health insurance providers have long initiated against universal health care systems. During Potter’s tenure at Cigna, th...
Over the summer, former Cigna executive Wendell Potter made headlines for exposing the misinformation campaigns that corporate health insurance providers have long initiated against universal health care systems. During Potter’s tenure at Cigna, th...
Before dawn on February 6, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in the western Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) raided the territory of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation and arrested at least six land defenders. The Wet’suwet’en had bee...
Before dawn on February 6, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in the western Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) raided the territory of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation and arrested at least six land defenders. The Wet’suwet’en had bee...