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The Importance of Winter

Although winter doesn’t officially start for another few weeks, we’ve already donned our toques and mitts and parkas. Here in Edmonton, the snow has finally started falling and we’re celebrating the…

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Consensus and Climate Change

On CBC’s As It Happens, Phil Plait, an astronomer and science writer, called Donald Trump’s plans to cut NASA’s climate change research “a horrible, horrible plan that will spell nothing…

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A Survivor’s Documents

In 1949, as a seven-year-old boy, Arthur Bear Chief was pulled from his family home to attend residential school. From his dorm room at Old Sun Residential School near Gleichen,…

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Here it is. The first instalment of Open Book Bites, the audio portion of the Open Book Blog. Episode 1 is a casual conversation with Shannon Stettner, editor of Without…

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