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“It’s Not Something I’m Squeamish About”: Heated Rivalry Author on Writing Explicit Sex Scenes

R achel Reid is the bestselling author of the Game Changers hockey romance series that includes Heated Rivalry, the TV adaptation of which (by...

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Nathan Whitlock

The United States Has Now Gone Full Villain

I n March 1933, United States president Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his first inaugural address in the dismal depths of the Great Depression....

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Dan Gardner

How to Keep Your House Clean

L AST SUMMER, a friend was visiting from Australia. Our plan was to meet at my place at noon, and then he showed up thirty minutes ahead of...

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Courtney Shea

After Venezuela, the Unthinkable Enters Canadian Politics

W hen Hitler swallowed Czechoslovakia in 1938 and then divided Poland with Stalin in 1939, my parents’ generation decided, coming home from the...

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Michael Ignatieff

Can Canadian Culture Survive the Age of AI Slop?

H ave you heard Solomon Ray’s new album Faithful Soul? It’s number one on the gospel charts—and entirely AI generated, just like the musical artist...

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Vass Bednar

The Housing Market Isn’t for Single People

T here’s a running joke in one of my friend circles that, if we ever pooled our resources and lived together, we’d need a cat room. We daydream...

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Renée Sylvestre-Williams

Welcome Back to the Office. You Won’t Get Anything Done

M y first office job was an internship at a law firm in Washington, DC. I was twenty years old and a college student, which meant that I was quite...

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Kathy Chow

Canada’s Best Answer to Trump’s New World Order? Build Faster

T hat was quite the interview minister of energy and natural resources Tim Hodgson gave to La Presse in the last days before Christmas. “This...

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Paul Wells

Why You’re Bad with Money

M ichael used to sleep with his phone under his pillow—not because he was waiting for an important call, but because the vibration from his banking...

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