PERSPECTIVES

The Last Thing I Wanted Was Lockdown With My Ex. But My Son Needed miodrag ignjatovic via Getty Images
It Took 75 Years To Start My Acting Career. I’ve Never Felt More HuffPost Canada
We Must Ask Why Medicine Still Puts Racists On A Spencer Platt via Getty Images
Dreading A Pandemic Winter? Here's How I Survived The Isolation Of Subarctic Una Zhu / EyeEm via Getty Images
I Live On Swastika Trail. I've Been Trying To Change Its Name For Sophie Smith and Evelin Molnar
We Forgot Black Lives Matter At Canada’s 1st Pride. Let’s Never Repeat That Gerald Hannon/The ArQuives
‘Work Culture’ Is Code For White And Western. So Where Do People Like Me AJ_Watt via Getty Images
The Tear Gas Burned For Hours. The Damage To My Body May Last A Eva Grant
Hockey Culture Wants 'Good Canadian Boys,' Just None That Look Like Tyler Griffin
Jagmeet Singh Is All Of Us Who've Been Told To Apologize For Calling Out Patrick Doyle / Reuters
As An Indigenous Mountie For 17 Years, I Became Numb To The Casual Chad Haggerty
Lockdown Helped My Son And Husband Find Each Other Anton Petrus via Getty Images
Men, This Simple Phrase Helped Me Go From 'I Got This' To 'I Got Andy Katz/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images
I'm Burning Out Fighting Racism, Yet I Never Feel Like I'm Doing Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Opinion

Until Canada Protects Black Lives, Race-Based COVID-19 Data Could Be A Drazen Zigic via Getty Images
COVID-19 Is Pushing Mothers Out Of The Workforce. Here's South_agency via Getty Images

Personal

Lockdown Gave Me A Chance To Really Get To Know My Kids. I’ll Miss Adam Grachnik

Opinion

‘Civility’ Can Fight Systemic Racism, But Not By Shutting One Side Arindam Shivaani/NurPhoto via Getty Images
O'Toole Must Choose Between The Base That Got Him There And Moving The Party Sean Kilpatrick/Pool via REUTERS
'But Is She Qualified?' How The Merit Myth Holds Back Women In SEAN KILPATRICK via Getty Images
We Shouldn’t Need Success Like Masai Ujiri's To Be Above Suspicion In White THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tony Avelar

Life

Chi Chi DeVayne, Fear Not: You Are Image: Stephen Dunn

Personal

My Adoptive Culture Made Me Hide My Métis Identity. Reclaiming It Is My Brittany Penner
My Church Fired Me After I Came Out As Trans. It Taught Me The Limits Of Its John Cullen
Our Son's Birth Was Going According To Plan. Then The Pandemic Courtesy Aaron Broverman
We Really Need To Talk About WE's White-Saviour Jason Kempin via Getty Images
As A Comedy Club Server, I Bore Witness To A Broken, Sexist Paul A. Hebert/Invision/AP
The Dance Floor At Pride Is Essential To Revolution. So Is Defunding The THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
I Grappled With Whether To Keep Harry Potter. Here's Why I Dia Dipasupil via Getty Images

Opinion

What Motivates Some Men To Make Dangerous Sexual Advances Screencap/Sean Leathong/CTV/Twitter

Personal

Systemic Racism Exists In Canada. It’s A Fact, Not An Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
I Want Black People To Fill Their Lungs In A World Intent On Stealing Our skyNext via Getty Images

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