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No one likes throwing up, but what happens when that aversion goes too far?

In the summer of 2023, my high school friend Ash asked me to guide him through a ritual he believed would cure him of his OCD. What he didn’t know is I was struggling with a compulsion of my own.

What does “power” mean to us?

Author Kawika Guillermo charts their journey to self-acceptance through virtual realms and tumultuous times in their memoir “Of Floating Isles: On Growing Pains and Video Games.”

In her first memoir, “A Truce That Is Not Peace,” beloved author Miriam Toews breaks storytelling conventions to share her innermost thoughts on life, death, and writing.

Do you know who gave Canadian women the right to maternity leave? Who fought to have Canadian women seen as people in the eyes of the law? In her latest book, “Women Who Woke up the Law: Inside the Cases that Changed Women’s Rights in Canada”, Karin Wells brings readers into the legal trials and personal tribulations of the women who made Canadian legal history.

Four articles from Working Draft’s 2025 Movement issue have won John H. McDonald (JHM) Awards for Excellence in Student Journalism.

In “Smartphone Nation: Why We’re All Addicted to Our Screens and What You and Your Family Can Do About It,” Dr. Kaitlyn Regehr pulls back the curtain on the systems engineered to capture our attention and challenges readers to rethink what a healthy digital life really looks like.

Congratulations to the winning writers!