Danielle Doiron
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You’re banning the wrong books
Every book has a lifespan, especially when it belongs to a public library.
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‘Made to feel complicit’
In a boardroom of about 20 prospective interns, I learned the first rule of sports media: don’t look down in the locker room.
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‘Just have a glass of wine’
I made the appointment to talk about other kinds of pain.
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A misplaced morality in sports
“No time period in baseball is clean,” Matt Snyder writes for CBS Sports.
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A virtual love story
Even though I hadn’t seen most of my American family members in months, I didn’t feel homesick until I saw a photo.
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‘Gay’ isn’t a bad word
Not much has changed about my high school in the decade since I graduated. The halls may be painted a slightly different colour, and I now walk them as an educator, but they still echo with students casually dropping “that’s so gay” or “no homo” into conversation.
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Support in seven pages
I sat, hunched, in the emergency room for six hours before being shuttled down the corridor to yet another crammed, industrial space. I don’t remember the colour of the curtains hung around my bed (likely beige) or the precise antiseptic scent in the air.
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‘Just doing something shameful’
Amid the flags, signs and trailers that greeted me when I stepped outside my front door last month, one cluster of people caught my attention. It was the morning of Feb. 4, and a journalist stood at the crosswalk connecting Broadway and Memorial, interviewing unmasked protestors.
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Nothing short of violence
Alarm bells rang in my head as I read a Winnipeg Police Service news release that warned of a “planned demonstration” in the city’s centre and advised people to “avoid the area.” From my third-floor apartment beside the Manitoba Legislative Building, this was easier said than done.
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‘On the shoulders of the unvaccinated’
I broke one of the cardinal rules of journalism. I read the comments.
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‘Breaking free of hustle culture’
Changing careers during the pandemic
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‘It is necessary that you change everything’
There’s no Band-Aid fix for policing and the prison industrial complex
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‘An enabler and a life preserver’
For people with eating disorders, Instagram is a double-edged sword
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Witnessing ‘white supremacy unchecked’
The words we use to describe violence
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Be more like Spider-Man
We need to normalize mask use – for the kids
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Beyond the tired narrative
What HBO forgets about survivors of sexual violence
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Favourite public art piece
Favourite public art piece
1. Anti-RCMP graffiti
2. Mural at WanaBees Diner
3. Kenneth Lavallee’s Star Blanket Project -
In other words
Rethinking how we talk about sexual violence
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It’s time for Pallister to ‘grow up’
Provincial government must take responsibility for rising COVID-19 cases
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Feeling blue while seeing red
A Canadian experience of the US election