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Architectural giant Moshe Safdie wants Canada to rebuild its sense of adventure

Make Cannabis Amnesty Happen • Nearly four years after legalization, past cannabis convictions can only be pardoned. They should be expunged altogether.

Animal House • Adele Doucet dreamed of owning a place she and her many pets could call home. Her family helped make it happen.

The Crowd Pleaser • B.C. pop newcomer Jessia is winning over Canadians with her motivational melodies

Common Ground • The University of British Columbia’s Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre fuses Western design with Indigenous tradition

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A Canadian’s Guide to the Roller- coaster Economy • BALLOONING INFLATION, MOUNTING DEBT, A LABOUR SHORTAGE—AND HAVE YOU SEEN GAS PRICES? HERE, THE COUNTRY’S SMARTEST ECONOMIC MINDS EXPLAIN HOW CANADA GOT SO FINANCIALLY WILD, AND HOW TO MAKE THINGS BETTER.

What’s With These Interest Rates?

HOW RENT PRICES GOT SO HIGH

How Climate Change is Costing Us

WHY DELIVERY APPS ARE DYING

How’d We Get Into So Much Debt?

WHY FOOD IS SO PRICEY

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT STUDENT DEBT

Where Did All the Rental Cars Go?

WHY CRYPTO WENT KABOOM

Seriously, These Gas Prices?

HOW THE LABOUR SHORTAGE GOT SO BAD

A DOCTOR’S DILEMMA • MY JOB AS A FAMILY PHYSICIAN IN SMALL-TOWN BRITISH COLUMBIA IS A DREAM COME TRUE. IT’S ALSO NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO DO.

THE FOOD DIARIES • Groceries have become increasingly unaffordable in the last few months, thanks to a deadly combination of inflation, rising housing prices and supply shortages. How Canadians are coping with the cost of living.

“I don’t go grocery shopping with a list. I just go in and look for discounted items.”

“If I’m having a good week, I’ll buy some steak or salmon. Otherwise, I’m eating vegetarian.”

“Technically we’re middle class. I have a good job. And yet we’re just getting by.”

“The cost of food has risen but my pension hasn’t”

“Every week a non-profit gives us a hamper of fruit and vegetables, bread, toilet paper and diapers”

“I’m lactose-intolerant but I can no longer afford lactose-free milk”

“Making calculations on our Excel sheet to see what food we can buy is like a part-time job”

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HALIFAX’S HEYDAY • The seaside city is the perfect coalescence of classic and cool

Where to stay • Just five years ago, there were only a handful of hotels in Halifax, with most tending toward the stately instead of the sleek. A wave of new, boutiquey openings has expanded visitors’ options.

Happening This Month

SMELLS LIKE TEENY SPIRIT • Miniature artists are building their dream homes with polymer clay and precision.

A BREATH OF PLEIN AIR • Pining for the outdoors, painter Keiran Brennan Hinton moved to an old brick schoolhouse with scenic views

LIDO’S WORLD • On her new CBC show, Lido Pimienta keeps it surreal.

“I love living in a place where I can be free about my sexuality without being judged” • Back home in Syria, I was terrified that I’d be arrested for being gay. When I moved to Ottawa, I could finally be myself.

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