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Topics: July/August 2020, Justice | Opinion
COVID-19 gives Mother Earth a chance to heal — if we let her
By Alanna Mitchell |What if we could leverage this dreadful moment in our human history to right past wrongs?
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Topics: Justice, September 2019 | Environment
‘The adults have failed us’
By Alanna Mitchell |Youth have taken the lead in fighting the climate crisis. It’s time for the rest of us to join them.
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Topics: July/August 2019, Justice | LGBTQ2S+
These moms chose their LGBTQ2 kids over their conservative churches
By Alanna Mitchell |When religious institutions reject their kids, these women fight back. They call themselves Mama Bears.
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Topics: May 2019, Spirituality | Society
How this Nobel winner balances physics and faith
By Alanna Mitchell |An active member of her Waterloo, Ont., church, Donna Strickland has spent a lifetime bucking convention
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Topics: Ethical Living | Society
Why so many single Canadians are eating with strangers
By Alanna Mitchell |The revival of community dinners reveals that we long for more than good food—we want human connection.
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Topics: Justice | Indigenous
Reconciliation process: What can Canada learn from Australia?
By Alanna Mitchell |Both countries have terrible histories with Indigenous peoples. The writer travels Down Under to find out how they're trying to make it right.
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Topics: Spirituality | Environment, Indigenous
Exploring the world’s oldest creation story in northern Australia
By Alanna Mitchell |The rock art in Kakadu National Park is not just the dusty archive of a primeval religion. It is part of an enigmatic, sophisticated animist faith that lives on.
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Topics: Ethical Living | Environment
Kicking fossil fuels will save trillions of dollars – and the planet
By Alanna Mitchell |We can easily afford to wean ourselves off carbon-based fuels, and we can't afford not to
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Topics: Science | Environment
Corporations control most of the global seed market; concern ensues
By Alanna Mitchell |Public seed breeding, financed by governments, has collapsed in Canada after generations of innovation
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Topics: Science | Society
New discoveries lead to questions about what makes us uniquely human
By Alanna Mitchell |Science is blurring the lines between humans and other species. Maybe we're not the pinnacle of Creation after all