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The Fight of My Life

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 28, 2022December 13, 2022

“When my wife and daughter were killed in Iran’s downing of Flight PS752, my life was thrown into total darkness.”

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In Her Defence

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 19, 2022December 15, 2022

“After suffering decades of abuse, Helen Naslund was sentenced for killing her husband on their Alberta farm.”

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The Demon River

by Seyward Darby November 15, 2022November 15, 2022

“On the one-year anniversary, a journalist recounts an extraordinary flood that laid waste to homes and lives—and the idea that we can control nature.”

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With Old Traditions and New Tech, Young Inuit Chart Their Changing Landscape

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands August 30, 2022October 19, 2022

For generations, hunting and being deeply in tune with the land have been essential parts of Inuit culture in the Hudson Bay region of northernmost Canada. As the coastline changes, Inuit youth are combining next-generation tech and tools with the Indigenous wisdom of their elders to chart the evolving marine landscape — and make it […]

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The Emptying

by Longreads April 20, 2022November 23, 2022

“I’m amazed at our human capacity to adapt to the unbearable. Almost anything can seem normal if it’s inflicted on us long enough.”

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Endless Exile: The Tangled Politics Keeping a Uyghur Man in Limbo

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 3, 2022October 19, 2022

Sixteen years after being released from Guantánamo Bay, Ayoob Mohammed is still trying to prove he’s not a terrorist. This powerful, tragic story by Annie Hylton traces an Uyghur man’s journey from northwest China to Guantánamo to Albania — and examines the complex politics that have kept him from joining his family in Canada. As […]

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The Stench of Death

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 14, 2021October 19, 2022

On Canada’s Highway of Tears.

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How a McDonald’s Knockoff Became the Immigrant Dream

by Peter Rubin October 15, 2021October 19, 2022

“The truth is, Burger Baron maintains a cult following to this day partly because it’s a shitshow. To begin with, the logo—a colourful fat knight with double-Bs in his shield—often appears on signs as a crudely drawn copy of the original. The mascot sometimes looks emaciated or downright mutilated, if he appears on the sign […]

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Survivor

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands July 27, 2021October 19, 2022

“The discovery of hundreds of Indigenous children’s remains in the spring was particularly hard for me—because I knew I could have been one of them. How I made it through Canada’s residential school system.”

Posted inCulture, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes, Uncategorized, Writing

Listen to the Sound of My Voice

by Seyward Darby April 5, 2021October 19, 2022

How a journalist found her voice as her mother lost hers.

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