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Cover reveal: our Sept/Oct double issue
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We sent the September/October issue off to the printers, and it features a cover created by Toronto-based illustrator Cornelia Li. You can see more of Li's work inside the issue, in Nicholas Hune-Brown's investigative feature on the pursuit and exploitation of international students by Canadian colleges and universities.

Also in this issue, a new story from Renée Pellerin about the all too common misdiagnosis of asthma—a condition thousands of Canadians falsely believe they suffer from.

Author and TV host Marie Kondo recently elevated minimalism into the zeitgeist, but the pendulum seems to be swinging the other way, at least according to Mireille Silcoff's essay on the maximalist home.

And, when Canadians discuss reproductive rights, it's usually in regards to the political machinations of our neighbours to the south, but the truth is that abortion access remains just as contentious an issue in the province of New Brunswick. Jessica Leeder profiles one doctor still fighting to provide abortion care in Canada.

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To some, resilience means survival, and calling someone resilient is meant as a compliment to their ability to survive.
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