Canadian politeness doesn’t help much when democracy is fragile and the world is on fire.

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By: Alice Switocz Goldbloom

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Being human feels harder than it should be. I know it’s always been hard, that people throughout history — even my own parents in Nazi-occupied Poland — have faced things I can’t imagine, that some people’s journeys are harder than anything I’ll ever know.

But right now? Right now, being human has a particular weight.

You have to care about everything — climate change, democracy, wars on three continents, the economy,

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