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How Joshua Whitehead is bringing Indigenous languages into CanLit

In his latest book, ‘Making Love With the Land,’ author Joshua Whitehead moves between genres and languages in a series of essays that open up a whole new window on the meaning of Canadian literature.

Whitehead himself was a born storyteller—his parents still keep a box of stories and poems he told them. “They’re very secretive about it. I’m always trying to find it,” he tells Maclean’s. He describes himself as a muckatoon, using a Cree term he defines as meaning “unabashedly verbose.” But his Cree remained rudimentary through his youth, and he was drawn to the likes of Ursula K. Le Guin, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. “I was trained, like we all are, really, to write white,” he says.

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The battle for the soul of Muskoka

There's a war being waged between neighbours on Ontario's exclusive lake Lake Joseph in an epic, expensive battle of NIMBYs vs. YIMBYs. How did one wealthy real estate developer suddenly become the face of overdevelopment in cottage country? Read More

The Prospect: Paulina Alexis

Unable to keep up with the rising housing costs in Vancouver, Martin and Nicole Chiu became first-time homeowners after a spontaneous move to Calgary, where they spotted a three-bedroom townhouse listed for $295,000 just 20 minutes from downtown. Read More

I'm a veteran ER doctor. I can’t believe what I’m seeing.

Overcrowded and understaffed, there's an emergency room crisis in Canada—and a new wave of COVID-19 is making a dire situation worse. Dr. Kashif Pirzada, a 15-year veteran in emergency medicine, shares what he's witnessed—and what's next.

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Inside British Columbia during an era of wildfires

With wildfires currently raging across Canada—from Newfoundland to Lytton, B.C.—the image of our nations forests ablaze has become all too common, particularly those on the West coast where wildfires are getting bigger and stonger than ever.

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How B.C. is learning to live with relentless wildfires

Last summer, the forests of British Columbia were engulfed in flames. At some points, there were as many as 80 new fires each day across the province.

Wildfires in British Columbia are hotter, bigger, and deadlier than ever. For residents in B.C., they are also a frightening, elemental fact of everyday life.

One year after the catastrophe, Maclean’s revisits the danger zones to hear from the firefighters, survivors and homeowners living with the constant threat of wildfires in this portrait of a province in flames.

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