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Thursday, May 15, 2025

Two piles of elephant tusks sit on dirt in front of a raging fire. Text: 'Anthropocene: The Human Epoch'
 

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

 
Stunning imagery captures humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet.
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A yellow Thermos full of kimchi, surrounded by images of a person sitting cross-legged, a clothed person in a bathtub, a sad-faced cartoon raincloud and a person blowing bubbles. Text: 'The Lunchbox Dilemma'
 

The Lunchbox Dilemma

 
Three Asian Canadians recall hiding, discarding and forgetting their lunches — the ones their classmates called “weird,” “smelly” and “funny-looking.”
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An oppossum looks directly at the camera with its mouth open.
 

Nature's Cleanup Crew

 
From opossums to ants, all kinds of animals clean up our mess — and scientists are exploring ways of making their methods even more beneficial to humans and the rest of the world.
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A person wearing a backpack and using a walking stick walks away from the camera up a gravel trail. Text: 'The Camino'

The Camino

A Montrealer walks the physically and spiritually challenging Camino de Santiago trail in Spain for 40 days, a fraction of his decade-long quest to find his place in the world.
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A microscopic close-up of a neon-yellow cluster of webbed, capsule-shaped bacteria.

This bacteria digests oil

Scientists hope alcanivorax enzymes could be used to help clean up giant oil spills in the future.
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My parents packed Chinese food in my lunches. I pleaded with them to pack carrot sticks and Lunchables instead

"For years, I'd hide any part of myself that I thought my peers might find weird or unusual," writes Yú, the filmmaker behind The Lunchbox Dilemma.

This archive of photographs shows Black Canadians 'in the light in which they deserved to be shown'

The Alvin McCurdy Collection shows ‘many generations of continuing Black presence’ in Canada.

'This justice system is failing our people': Report meant to help Indigenous people in court often causes harm

According to Will George and many other Indigenous people, the process of completing a Gladue report is taxing, traumatizing and ultimately falls short of its goals.

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