Politics
Readers respond to Trump’s victory
In the week since the U.S. election results were announced, you've shared words of disappointment, fear and hope
Justice
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Society
The hidden epidemic of loneliness in Canada
An estimated six million Canadians live in isolation. Social researchers are now calling it a hidden epidemic.
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Society
ObserverDocs: Out of Syria
For nearly half a century, the Elnabrees family has fled one war after another: Palestine, Kuwait, Iraq and, more recently, Syria. This year, they arrived as refugees in Canada, sponsored by relatives and United churches. Ayman Elshafiy, his wife, Sonia, their two daughters, his sister and mother, were among them.
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Environment
Climate change is changing our ecosystems, this region is on the front lines
The writer visits the shifting shorelines of Bangladesh and discovers tens of millions of people on the brink of disaster
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Society
At 13, Willie Blackwater stood up to his abuser at a B.C. residential school
His defiance would eventually help change the course of Canadian history.
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Politics
5 differences between Justin Trudeau and Stephen Harper
What do we know so far? Not much, really. Justin Trudeau’s election night “red wave” was a surprise. And so is Canada’s JFK-like Camelot romance with his young family. Trudeau sought to differentiate himself immediately after he was sworn in on Nov. 4, slashing and burning some Harper-era ideological symbols…
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Society
How a Gitxsan community fought back against an epidemic of youth suicide
Whenever Gloria Stevens drives across the Hagwilget Canyon Bridge, she focuses on its beauty, not its deadly allure. Suspended 80 metres above the fast-flowing Bulkley River, carved out of the Roche de Boule mountain range in northwestern British Columbia’s Gitxsan territory, the single-lane structure is a spectacular sight. But as…
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Society
Small-town Ontario murder seemed like a blatant case of racist violence, but the truth goes deeper
The beating death of Andrew Mixemong three years ago exposes gaps in the social fabric we’d rather ignore
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Society
Broken dreams in Little Mogadishu
Canada's Somali community continues to struggle with higher-than-average levels of violence, unemployment and discrimination
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Society
Canada’s remaining residential school buildings are a grim reminder to a shameful history
While many have already been destroyed, Canada is struggling to deal with those former school that continue to haunt the nation
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Immigration
Canada’s Somali community struggles with discrimination, poverty
High levels of violence, unemployment lead to broken dreams in Little Mogadishu, part of Etobicoke
