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The Empathy Paradox: What #MeToo Misses

What even a post-Weinstein conversation is not saying about sexual assault

Carly Lewis

Puppeteering and Electioneering

A look back on the 2021 campaign

Jeff Costen

Missing in Action

When people turn their backs on public office

Ron Hikel
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Shelley Boyd

Shelley Boyd teaches Canadian literature in the English department of Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, British Columbia. She is the author of Garden Plots: Canadian Women Writers and Their Literary Gardens (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013).

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Prisoners of Home

Margaret Atwood’s imagined society is grounded in the current abuses of capitalism. December 2015
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Carol Shields once stated “that language that carries weight in our culture is very often fuelled by a search for home, our rather piteous human groping toward that metaphorical place where we can be most truly ourselves.” Margaret Atwood taps into this fundamental desire for belonging and refuge in her latest novel, The Heart Goes Last…