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What Was Lost: On Joseph Boyden’s The Orenda

How can Joseph Boyden’s epic novel help us imagine ethical forms of community and ecology for a post-colonial Canada?

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The Urgency of the Unknown Future

By Mark McConaghy

How can we move beyond all of our petty sorrows and vulnerabilities to gain a truly meaningful form of social existence?

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On Sadness (Part 1)

By Mark McConaghy

Despite our technological and material mastery over the world, why does melancholy still persist?

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