June 2024

In this issue: The AI revolution and how we can harness it for good; facing death with magic mushrooms; and moving reconciliation beyond gestures.

A woman, Janis Hughes, sits on a couch in front of a window, holding a mug.

Magic mushrooms are helping terminally ill patients go out on a high

by Anne Bokma

Despite its potential to help with end-of-life care, psilocybin is still largely illegal in Canada

A middle-aged white woman with short hair is wearing brown-framed glasses and talking to someone off frame. She is wearing a white striped button-up shirt. Her chin is resting on her left hand. She is wearing a nametag that says Ellen Woodsworth.

Canada’s first out lesbian city councillor on her decades-long fight for women’s rights

by Tobin Ng

Ellen Woodsworth dissects the past, present and future of feminism

A sepia-toned colour, grainy, old photo from 1909 featuring a group of Indigenous pupils at Mount Elgin Industrial Institute, a United Church-run residential school in Ontario. The students are doing laundry using old washing wheels. The girls have long braids, long-sleeve shirts and skirts and aprons on. The boys have short hair and blazers and trousers on.

How searching for lost residential school photos made me think differently about reconciliation

by Heather Menzies

Personal encounters and relationship-building are the key to reconciliation, writes Heather Menzies

Illustration of a woman in a black niqab hugging a girl in a purple and pink striped shirt with brown hair and bangs. There is a boy sleeping next to them. They are in a tent and outside are two women in a niqab walking by, along with a boy in a long hooded shirt, shorts and sandals. A man with a beard, in a thawb and sandals is also walking by.

Stuck in a Syrian refugee camp, this mother could send her children to Canada. But she may never see them again.

by Katharine Lake Berz

Samia's Canadian children are in danger of dying or becoming victims of violence, but she faces an impossible choice

Illustration of a man in a black suit and black trousers. He has brownish hair and is looking down. The perspective is from behind. The background is purple and there is an arm on the man's back, comforting him.

After learning of the death of his son, a bereaved father made a stunning phone call

by Wayne Hilliker

How one conversation turned into something sacred

A middle-aged white woman with short curly blonde hair is holding a microphone and looking dismayed. She is wearing a blue and white striped shirt with a silver necklace and silver dangling earrings. She has on red lipstick.

Deborah Kimmett’s new memoir navigates her rocky spiritual journey with humour

by Pieta Woolley

In "Window Shopping for God," the Second City comedian shares her decades-long search for meaning

A bald Black man with black-framed glasses is standing in front of graffiti and laughing with his eyes closed and mouth open. He has a goatee and earrings in each ear. His left hand is in the pocket of his blue jeans. he is wearing a white sweatshirt. On his right hand is a white watch with a ring on his middle finger. He is also wearing a ring on the left middle finger and a silver bracelet.

This gospel choir welcomes queer and trans people

by Jillian Bell

Jacen Duncan founded Inkloosiv Voices to give everyone a chance to sing uplifting music

A white-skinned man stands in front of a city line and a body of water. He has brown hair and is wearing a navy jacket with a white shirt underneath. He has a scruffy beard.

‘Dayspring’ reimagines the Christ story through a queer, pop-culture lens

by Sherlyn Assam

Anthony Oliveira's stunning debut novel offers a bold and intimate take on Jesus

Illustration of a computer monitor. There are circles in the monitor and out of one of them is a purple hand reaching out to another hand on the bottom right of the screen.

The AI revolution is here. Can we harness it for good?

by Lindsay Borthwick

Some are embracing its immense potential, but one of the 'godfathers of AI' is worried about the 'existential risk' it poses

Editor Jocelyn Bell sits and poses with a smile. She is a white woman with short reddish hair above her shoulders. She is wearing a purple short-sleeved shirt and her left arm is propped up on the backrest of the chair she is sitting on.

AI is a powerful tool. What does it mean for journalism?

by Jocelyn Bell

Here's how we're approaching artificial intelligence at Broadview

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June 2024

Magic mushrooms are helping terminally ill patients go out on a high

Canada’s first out lesbian city councillor on her decades-long fight for women’s rights

How searching for lost residential school photos made me think differently about reconciliation

Stuck in a Syrian refugee camp, this mother could send her children to Canada. But she may never see them again.

After learning of the death of his son, a bereaved father made a stunning phone call

Deborah Kimmett’s new memoir navigates her rocky spiritual journey with humour

This gospel choir welcomes queer and trans people

‘Dayspring’ reimagines the Christ story through a queer, pop-culture lens

The AI revolution is here. Can we harness it for good?

AI is a powerful tool. What does it mean for journalism?

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