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    <description>An independent quarterly covering civil liberties, courts, healthcare, and housing. No advertisers. No investors. No agenda other than the record.</description>
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    <copyright>PRINT Canada Editorial</copyright>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to get and read your disclosure in an Ontario criminal case.]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[How to get and read your disclosure in an Ontario criminal case.]]></description>
    <author>d.carmichael@printmag.org (Dale Carmichael)</author>
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    <title><![CDATA[What a bail hearing decides, and your rights at it.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/what-a-bail-hearing-decides-and-your-rights-at-it</link>
    <description><![CDATA[What a bail hearing decides, and your rights at it.]]></description>
    <author>d.carmichael@printmag.org (Dale Carmichael)</author>
    <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The government already knows what you owe. Stop making us file.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-government-already-knows-what-you-owe</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Your employer already sends the government your income. The agency holds the slips it makes you copy back to it. Automatic filing already runs for two million Canadians. Flip the default, tell people the number, let them dispute it.]]></description>
    <author>a.bergeron@printmag.org (Amelie Bergeron)</author>
    <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The car that quietly became a mobile home.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-car-that-became-a-mobile-home</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Climate control all night, a camp setting that turns the back seat into a bedroom, a pet setting, a tow hook, and software that drives itself. The family electric crossover quietly became a small house you can move, a marvel and a quiet sentence about the country it parks in.]]></description>
    <author>j.okafor@printmag.org (James Okafor)</author>
    <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Sick, addicted, and dragged through criminal court.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/sick-addicted-and-dragged-through-criminal-court</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Sick, addicted, and dragged through criminal court.]]></description>
    <author>b.fontaine@printmag.org (Bernard Fontaine)</author>
    <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Eight hours in the emergency room, and no diagnosis.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/eight-hours-in-the-emergency-room-and-no-diagnosis</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Eight hours in the emergency room, and no diagnosis.]]></description>
    <author>m.saunders@printmag.org (Margaret Saunders)</author>
    <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[He called more than fifty lawyers. Not one would take legal aid.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/he-called-more-than-fifty-lawyers-not-one-would-take-legal-aid</link>
    <description><![CDATA[He called more than fifty lawyers. Not one would take legal aid.]]></description>
    <author>l.hebert@printmag.org (Laurence Hebert)</author>
    <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[No lawyer will take your legal aid certificate. Here is what you can do.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/no-lawyer-will-take-your-legal-aid-certificate-what-to-do</link>
    <description><![CDATA[No lawyer will take your legal aid certificate. Here is what you can do.]]></description>
    <author>d.carmichael@printmag.org (Dale Carmichael)</author>
    <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <category>access to justice</category> <category>legal aid</category> <category>criminal courts</category> <category>charter</category> <category>know-your-rights</category> <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The complaint was cancelled. The charge was not.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-complaint-was-cancelled-the-charge-was-not</link>
    <description><![CDATA[The complaint was cancelled. The charge was not.]]></description>
    <author>l.hebert@printmag.org (Laurence Hebert)</author>
    <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[What the police can and cannot do at your car in Ontario.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/what-the-police-can-and-cannot-do-at-your-car-in-ontario</link>
    <description><![CDATA[What the police can and cannot do at your car in Ontario.]]></description>
    <author>d.carmichael@printmag.org (Dale Carmichael)</author>
    <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Your landlord wants to evict you in Ontario. Here is what they can and cannot do.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/your-landlord-wants-to-evict-you-in-ontario-your-rights</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Your landlord wants to evict you in Ontario. Here is what they can and cannot do.]]></description>
    <author>d.mcleod@printmag.org (Douglas McLeod)</author>
    <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <category>housing</category> <category>tenant-rights</category> <category>ontario</category> <category>know-your-rights</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[Your ODSP application was denied. Here is how the appeal actually works.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/odsp-denied-how-the-appeal-actually-works-in-ontario</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Your ODSP application was denied. Here is how the appeal actually works.]]></description>
    <author>b.fontaine@printmag.org (Bernard Fontaine)</author>
    <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <category>disability</category> <category>odsp</category> <category>ontario</category> <category>know-your-rights</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[A company ran a credit check you never authorized. Here is what you can do.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/a-bank-ran-a-credit-check-you-never-authorized-what-to-do</link>
    <description><![CDATA[A company ran a credit check you never authorized. Here is what you can do.]]></description>
    <author>a.bergeron@printmag.org (Amelie Bergeron)</author>
    <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <category>banking</category> <category>credit</category> <category>pipeda</category> <category>know-your-rights</category> <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[You have been arrested in Ontario. Your rights in the first hour.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/you-have-been-arrested-in-ontario-your-rights-in-the-first-hour</link>
    <description><![CDATA[You have been arrested in Ontario. Your rights in the first hour.]]></description>
    <author>d.carmichael@printmag.org (Dale Carmichael)</author>
    <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <category>criminal courts</category> <category>charter</category> <category>civil-liberties</category> <category>policing</category> <category>know-your-rights</category> <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The car never moved.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-car-never-moved</link>
    <description><![CDATA[The car never moved.]]></description>
    <author>l.hebert@printmag.org (Laurence Hebert)</author>
    <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The recording with 754 million silences.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-recording-with-754-million-silences</link>
    <description><![CDATA[The recording with 754 million silences.]]></description>
    <author>l.hebert@printmag.org (Laurence Hebert)</author>
    <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <category>policing</category> <category>axon</category> <category>guelph</category> <category>audio-forensics</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[She asked for two thousand, five hundred dollars of her own money.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/she-asked-for-two-thousand-five-hundred-dollars-of-her-own-money</link>
    <description><![CDATA[She asked for two thousand, five hundred dollars of her own money.]]></description>
    <author>m.saunders@printmag.org (Margaret Saunders)</author>
    <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <category>financial-services</category> <category>rrif</category> <category>kitchener</category> <category>manulife</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The loan that changed at the door.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-loan-that-changed-at-the-door</link>
    <description><![CDATA[The loan that changed at the door.]]></description>
    <author>a.bergeron@printmag.org (Amelie Bergeron)</author>
    <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-loan-that-changed-at-the-door</guid>
    <category>banking</category> <category>auto-finance</category> <category>brampton</category> <category>td</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[Twenty-seven years and the province said not enough.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/twenty-seven-years-and-the-province-said-not-enough</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Twenty-seven years and the province said not enough.]]></description>
    <author>b.fontaine@printmag.org (Bernard Fontaine)</author>
    <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[What the clinic reported to Merck.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/what-the-clinic-reported-to-merck</link>
    <description><![CDATA[What the clinic reported to Merck.]]></description>
    <author>m.saunders@printmag.org (Margaret Saunders)</author>
    <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/what-the-clinic-reported-to-merck</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Six times, without asking.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/six-times-without-asking</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Six times, without asking.]]></description>
    <author>a.bergeron@printmag.org (Amelie Bergeron)</author>
    <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/six-times-without-asking</guid>
    <category>banking</category> <category>pipeda</category> <category>credit</category> <category>kitchener</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The machine read zero.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-machine-read-zero</link>
    <description><![CDATA[The machine read zero.]]></description>
    <author>l.hebert@printmag.org (Laurence Hebert)</author>
    <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-machine-read-zero</guid>
    <category>criminal courts</category> <category>intoxilyzer</category> <category>kitchener</category> <category>charter</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The conviction that does not appear on any record.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-conviction-that-does-not-appear-on-any-record</link>
    <description><![CDATA[The conviction that does not appear on any record.]]></description>
    <author>d.carmichael@printmag.org (Dale Carmichael)</author>
    <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-conviction-that-does-not-appear-on-any-record</guid>
    <category>criminal courts</category> <category>bail</category> <category>cpic</category> <category>kitchener</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[What the station cameras recorded while the booking report said no force.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/what-the-station-cameras-recorded-while-the-booking-report-said-no-force</link>
    <description><![CDATA[What the station cameras recorded while the booking report said no force.]]></description>
    <author>l.hebert@printmag.org (Laurence Hebert)</author>
    <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The ninety-day deadline the Crown has already missed.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-ninety-day-deadline-the-crown-has-already-missed</link>
    <description><![CDATA[The ninety-day deadline the Crown has already missed.]]></description>
    <author>d.carmichael@printmag.org (Dale Carmichael)</author>
    <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The review that reviews itself.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-review-that-reviews-itself</link>
    <description><![CDATA[When the Ontario Disability Support Program denies an application, the applicant may request an internal review. The review is conducted by the same ministry that made the denial, under the same guidelines, on the same paper file. The country calls this a safeguard. A safeguard is independent. This is not independent.]]></description>
    <author>b.fontaine@printmag.org (Bernard Fontaine)</author>
    <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[What happens when the body camera goes quiet.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/what-happens-when-the-body-camera-goes-quiet</link>
    <description><![CDATA[The province spent over two hundred million dollars deploying body-worn cameras so that contested police-citizen encounters would have an objective record. The province did not build an independent mechanism for verifying whether the record the camera produces is the record that actually happened. The cameras are running. The audit is not.]]></description>
    <author>l.hebert@printmag.org (Laurence Hebert)</author>
    <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <category>policing</category> <category>use-of-force</category> <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[Six hard inquiries the bank did not ask permission for.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/six-hard-inquiries-the-bank-did-not-ask-permission-for</link>
    <description><![CDATA[A Canadian consumer reviews her credit file and finds six hard inquiries from a major chartered bank she has not recently applied to for anything. Each inquiry reduced her score. The bank, when asked, produces a letter. The letter thanks her for raising her concern. The six inquiries remain.]]></description>
    <author>a.bergeron@printmag.org (Amelie Bergeron)</author>
    <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <category>banking</category> <category>financial-services</category> <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The contract that changed on the day the keys were handed over.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-contract-that-changed-on-the-day-the-keys-were-handed-over</link>
    <description><![CDATA[A consumer agrees to an eighty-four-month auto loan at point of sale. On delivery day, the contract on the desk is for seventy-two months. The keys are in sight. The monthly payment is higher. The country's auto-finance framework has no requirement that the delivery contract match the term the consumer agreed to.]]></description>
    <author>a.bergeron@printmag.org (Amelie Bergeron)</author>
    <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The alphabet soup the country calls consumer protection.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-alphabet-soup-the-country-calls-consumer-protection</link>
    <description><![CDATA[FCAC. OBSI. OMVIC. OPC. CCTS. FSRA. A Canadian citizen is wronged by a bank or a dealer or an insurer, files a complaint with the relevant acronym, waits four months, receives a finding, and watches the institution read the finding and change nothing. The country has confused the existence of oversight bodies with the existence of protection.]]></description>
    <author>a.bergeron@printmag.org (Amelie Bergeron)</author>
    <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[What the country takes from the bodies of its poorest, and ships abroad.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/what-the-country-takes-from-the-bodies-of-its-poorest</link>
    <description><![CDATA[A network of for-profit plasma collection centres pays donors in the range of twenty-five to fifty dollars a session, twice a week. The donors are, by every demographic study of the practice, overwhelmingly people who need the twenty-five dollars. The plasma becomes medicines the country's sickest citizens depend on. The country has looked at this arrangement and called it healthcare.]]></description>
    <author>l.hebert@printmag.org (Laurence Hebert)</author>
    <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <category>healthcare</category> <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The car as the last room the country left affordable.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-car-as-the-last-room-the-country-left-affordable</link>
    <description><![CDATA[The average asking rent for a one-bedroom in the Waterloo Region is nineteen hundred dollars a month. A used-vehicle payment is three hundred and fifty. The country has spent forty years making the room unaffordable and the car inevitable. The country is now surprised when the car becomes the room.]]></description>
    <author>d.mcleod@printmag.org (Douglas McLeod)</author>
    <pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The pre-trial conference the country designed for two lawyers.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-pretrial-conference-the-country-designed-for-two-lawyers</link>
    <description><![CDATA[In Ontario criminal courts, the Crown pre-trial conference is mandatory. It was designed for two lawyers. When the accused is self-represented, the CPT becomes an asymmetric room: a trained Crown attorney who has done this hundreds of times, across a table from a citizen who has not done it once, discussing the full weight of the criminal law, with no transcript running and no institutional support on the citizen's side.]]></description>
    <author>d.carmichael@printmag.org (Dale Carmichael)</author>
    <pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-pretrial-conference-the-country-designed-for-two-lawyers</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Six dates, one citizen, one Ontario late spring.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/six-dates-one-citizen-one-ontario-late-spring</link>
    <description><![CDATA[A wall calendar in a small Ontario household, photographed this week, contains six entries between now and the end of June. Two criminal appearances. Three civil hearings. One regulatory deadline. The entries belong to a single citizen. The citizen did not seek any of them.]]></description>
    <author>d.carmichael@printmag.org (Dale Carmichael)</author>
    <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/six-dates-one-citizen-one-ontario-late-spring</guid>
    <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[When the receipt becomes a court file.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/when-the-receipt-becomes-a-court-file</link>
    <description><![CDATA[A vet visit. A car delivery. A loan signing. A retirement-account withdrawal. None of the four citizens at the centre of these files expected, on the day each transaction occurred, to be writing a statement of claim about it six months later. All four are writing one now.]]></description>
    <author>d.carmichael@printmag.org (Dale Carmichael)</author>
    <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/when-the-receipt-becomes-a-court-file</guid>
    <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The car they took was hers.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-car-they-took-was-hers</link>
    <description><![CDATA[The arrest was the citizen's. The cell was the citizen's. The car the regional police service of record sent the tow truck to remove from the curb belonged to a senior in her seventies who had not been charged with anything, had not been suspected, had not been interviewed, and who uses the vehicle to drive a ninety-six-year-old to medical appointments.]]></description>
    <author>l.hebert@printmag.org (Laurence Hebert)</author>
    <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-car-they-took-was-hers</guid>
    <category>policing</category> <category>use-of-force</category> <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The repossession industry the country pretends is a remedy.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-repossession-industry-the-country-pretends-is-a-remedy</link>
    <description><![CDATA[A national bank lends a citizen the price of a car. The citizen falls one payment behind. A tow truck arrives at five in the morning. There is no letter. There is no phone call. There is no escalation. The duty of good faith the country wrote into the legislation has, in any meaningful operational sense, not been observed.]]></description>
    <author>a.bergeron@printmag.org (Amelie Bergeron)</author>
    <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-repossession-industry-the-country-pretends-is-a-remedy</guid>
    <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[Four days from the lot to the failure.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/four-days-from-the-lot-to-the-failure</link>
    <description><![CDATA[A 2020 electric vehicle is sold as roadworthy in Brampton. The safety inspection on file runs eighteen minutes. Four days later, an independent shop in Cambridge has found suspension defects the safety inspection did not. The brand is about to be asked, in writing, what it thought it was selling.]]></description>
    <author>h.chen@printmag.org (Helen Chen)</author>
    <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/four-days-from-the-lot-to-the-failure</guid>
    <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The mandatory tax we call insurance.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-mandatory-tax-we-call-insurance</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Ontario law requires every driver to buy auto insurance from a small set of large companies that compete on advertising and on almost nothing else. The price is now higher than the monthly payment on the car. The country has, on its own ledger, no excuse for it.]]></description>
    <author>a.bergeron@printmag.org (Amelie Bergeron)</author>
    <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-mandatory-tax-we-call-insurance</guid>
    <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[Seven months to move ten thousand dollars.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/seven-months-to-move-ten-thousand-dollars</link>
    <description><![CDATA[A senior in Ontario requests a ten-thousand-dollar withdrawal from her RRIF. The withdrawal takes seven months and a Power of Attorney intervention. Eleven documented failures. The country built a private retirement system. The private retirement system, on this file, does not work.]]></description>
    <author>a.bergeron@printmag.org (Amelie Bergeron)</author>
    <pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/seven-months-to-move-ten-thousand-dollars</guid>
    <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The endless spiral at the Kitchener courthouse.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-endless-spiral-at-the-kitchener-courthouse</link>
    <description><![CDATA[A morning in the public gallery. Half the docket is people whose presence is the consequence of an illness the country has failed to treat. The other half is people whose disabilities the building cannot accommodate. The system processes them anyway.]]></description>
    <author>e.blackwell@printmag.org (Ezra Blackwell)</author>
    <pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-endless-spiral-at-the-kitchener-courthouse</guid>
    <category>criminal courts</category> <category>charter</category> <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[Eighteen minutes is not a safety inspection.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/eighteen-minutes-is-not-a-safety-inspection</link>
    <description><![CDATA[An Ontario buyer takes delivery of a new electric vehicle. The pre-delivery safety inspection, on the dealer's own time log, is recorded as eighteen minutes. The buyer is back at the service desk before the week is out.]]></description>
    <author>h.chen@printmag.org (Helen Chen)</author>
    <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/eighteen-minutes-is-not-a-safety-inspection</guid>
    <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[Three files, one citizen, and no lawyer.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/three-files-one-citizen-and-no-lawyer</link>
    <description><![CDATA[One Ontario citizen, three concurrent civil files against three of the country's largest corporations. The small-claims system was not designed for this citizen. The system's response has been to invent procedural barriers. The citizen has not stopped.]]></description>
    <author>d.carmichael@printmag.org (Dale Carmichael)</author>
    <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/three-files-one-citizen-and-no-lawyer</guid>
    <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The record the service wrote down that the country does not keep.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-record-the-service-wrote-down-that-the-country-does-not-keep</link>
    <description><![CDATA[An Ontario police service produces, in writing, a synopsis asserting that the accused has a prior conviction. The national criminal records database, when searched, returns no such conviction. The service does not retract. This is not a clerical error.]]></description>
    <author>l.hebert@printmag.org (Laurence Hebert)</author>
    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-record-the-service-wrote-down-that-the-country-does-not-keep</guid>
    <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The back seat, and other things the country calls bail conditions.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-back-seat-and-other-things-the-country-calls-conditions</link>
    <description><![CDATA[An Ontario bail order requires the accused to ride only in the back seat of any vehicle in which the accused is a passenger. The accused had insisted on his right to speak with the lawyer of his choice. The country imposed the back-seat condition anyway.]]></description>
    <author>l.hebert@printmag.org (Laurence Hebert)</author>
    <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-back-seat-and-other-things-the-country-calls-conditions</guid>
    <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[Regional police arrest a man for sleeping in a parked car at his own residence.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/arrested-for-sleeping-in-his-car</link>
    <description><![CDATA[He had given up the bedroom for visiting family. He slept in a parked car at his own address. The car was towed. The lawyer the police say they called says, in writing, they did not call. Recorded on three independent video sources.]]></description>
    <author>l.hebert@printmag.org (Laurence Hebert)</author>
    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/arrested-for-sleeping-in-his-car</guid>
    <category>policing</category> <category>charter</category> <category>use-of-force</category> <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[Why your lawyer wants you to settle.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/why-your-lawyer-wants-you-to-settle</link>
    <description><![CDATA[The country's legal profession is structurally biased toward resolution rather than fight. A withdrawal is rarely in counsel's economic interest; a plea is almost always. The self-represented accused who refuses is left to figure it out alone.]]></description>
    <author>d.carmichael@printmag.org (Dale Carmichael)</author>
    <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/why-your-lawyer-wants-you-to-settle</guid>
    <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Crown's word, on the record, on tape, and demonstrably false.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/a-crowns-word-on-the-record-and-on-tape</link>
    <description><![CDATA[An Ontario Crown tells an open court that the accused already has the body-worn camera footage. Seventy-seven minutes later, the same office emails it to him for the first time. When challenged, the Crown denies the misstatement and asks the citizen to return to the courthouse.]]></description>
    <author>d.carmichael@printmag.org (Dale Carmichael)</author>
    <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/a-crowns-word-on-the-record-and-on-tape</guid>
    <category>charter</category> <category>disclosure</category> <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The badge number as a constitutional minimum.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-badge-number-as-constitutional-minimum</link>
    <description><![CDATA[An officer who refuses to give their name and number, when a citizen lawfully asks for them, has failed at the floor of their job. The country has accepted this failure for too long.]]></description>
    <author>l.hebert@printmag.org (Laurence Hebert)</author>
    <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-badge-number-as-constitutional-minimum</guid>
    <category>policing</category> <category>use-of-force</category> <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The scans the country wants, and the disabilities it does not.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-scans-the-country-wants</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Ontario's disability program denies a first application from a citizen with a fully documented mental-health condition. The denial cites insufficient evidence. The evidence is in the file. The program wants an X-ray. The country has decided that the bone is what disability looks like.]]></description>
    <author>b.fontaine@printmag.org (Bernard Fontaine)</author>
    <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-scans-the-country-wants</guid>
    <category>disability</category> <category>odsp</category> <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The country already has your data. Why is it asking you for it?]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-country-already-has-your-data</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Every April, the country instructs its citizens to copy a series of numbers off forms the country itself has issued, onto another form the country itself has designed, and to mail it back to the country. This is not a tax system. It is a country bothering itself.]]></description>
    <author>e.blackwell@printmag.org (Ezra Blackwell)</author>
    <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-country-already-has-your-data</guid>
    <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[Five chains, and the most expensive country in the developed world to eat in.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-most-expensive-place-to-eat-in-the-developed-world</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Loblaw, Sobeys, Metro, Empire, and Costco. Five firms control more than ninety percent of the country's grocery market. The country has, in the absence of competition, been left alone with five chains.]]></description>
    <author>e.blackwell@printmag.org (Ezra Blackwell)</author>
    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-most-expensive-place-to-eat-in-the-developed-world</guid>
    <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The dog, the vaccine, and the two litres the clinic drained.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-dog-the-vaccine-and-the-two-litres-the-clinic-drained</link>
    <description><![CDATA[A routine appointment at a Guelph-area veterinary clinic becomes, within an hour, a medical emergency. Two litres of fluid are drained from a small dog after a reaction to a vaccine. The owner, when she later requests the medical record, receives a document with gaps the clinic cannot explain.]]></description>
    <author>b.fontaine@printmag.org (Bernard Fontaine)</author>
    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-dog-the-vaccine-and-the-two-litres-the-clinic-drained</guid>
    <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The quiet escape route the Big Three built for themselves.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-quiet-escape-route-the-big-three-built-for-themselves</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Bell, Rogers, and Telus charge some of the highest mobile-service prices in the developed world. They also, through their wholly-owned budget subsidiaries, offer the same network at a fraction of the price. The arrangement is evidence that the parent brands' prices are not the price the service costs.]]></description>
    <author>e.blackwell@printmag.org (Ezra Blackwell)</author>
    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-quiet-escape-route-the-big-three-built-for-themselves</guid>
    <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[What the CBC could be for, if it remembered what a country is.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/what-the-cbc-could-be-for-the-small-magazines</link>
    <description><![CDATA[The CBC does most of what its founders asked it to do. It does not, however, do the one thing the country most needs a public broadcaster to do in 2026, be the institutional anchor that lets small Canadian publications survive.]]></description>
    <author>e.blackwell@printmag.org (Ezra Blackwell)</author>
    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/what-the-cbc-could-be-for-the-small-magazines</guid>
    <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The contractor that owns the country's potholes.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-contractor-that-owns-the-countrys-potholes</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Drive any major Ontario highway in spring and you will be driving on the same surface, repaired by the same contractor, billed at the same rate, on the same multi-decade contract.]]></description>
    <author>h.chen@printmag.org (Helen Chen)</author>
    <pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-contractor-that-owns-the-countrys-potholes</guid>
    <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The cartel between the listings.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-cartel-between-the-listings</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Ask the country who is to blame for the price of everything, and the country will name a politician, a foreign buyer, or a vague global trend. The honest answer is closer to home.]]></description>
    <author>e.blackwell@printmag.org (Ezra Blackwell)</author>
    <pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-cartel-between-the-listings</guid>
    <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The pretence at the front door.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-pretence-at-the-front-door</link>
    <description><![CDATA[The country has, since the early 2010s, told itself that it cares about mental health. The country has not produced a public counselling system.]]></description>
    <author>b.fontaine@printmag.org (Bernard Fontaine)</author>
    <pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-pretence-at-the-front-door</guid>
    <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The case for the concession road.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-case-for-the-concession-road</link>
    <description><![CDATA[The country's housing market is a predator. The polite advice is to bid harder. The honest advice is to leave.]]></description>
    <author>d.mcleod@printmag.org (Douglas McLeod)</author>
    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-case-for-the-concession-road</guid>
    <category>housing</category> <category>tenant-rights</category> <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The fee that should not exist.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-fee-that-should-not-exist</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Overdraft is a tax on poverty, dressed in cufflinks. Repossession-without-warning is a violation of every principle of consumer protection.]]></description>
    <author>a.bergeron@printmag.org (Amelie Bergeron)</author>
    <pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-fee-that-should-not-exist</guid>
    <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[What cabinet won't say about housing.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/cabinet-housing</link>
    <description><![CDATA[The federal file talks about supply. The provincial file talks about land. The country talks about rent.]]></description>
    <author>e.blackwell@printmag.org (Ezra Blackwell)</author>
    <pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/cabinet-housing</guid>
    <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[Why your family doctor stopped calling back.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/family-doctor</link>
    <description><![CDATA[A small office. A single chair. A houseplant doing more emotional labour than the rostering code allows.]]></description>
    <author>e.blackwell@printmag.org (Ezra Blackwell)</author>
    <pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/family-doctor</guid>
    <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The long quiet after the vote.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/quiet-after-vote</link>
    <description><![CDATA[A minority Parliament. A country half listening.]]></description>
    <author>e.blackwell@printmag.org (Ezra Blackwell)</author>
    <pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/quiet-after-vote</guid>
    <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[Section 10(b) and the roadside.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/section-10b-roadside</link>
    <description><![CDATA[A right to counsel that begins, by tradition, the moment a driver is pulled over.]]></description>
    <author>e.blackwell@printmag.org (Ezra Blackwell)</author>
    <pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/section-10b-roadside</guid>
    <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[Small claims, big backlog.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/small-claims-backlog</link>
    <description><![CDATA[The civil court that handles ordinary disputes is the slowest part of the justice system most Canadians will ever meet.]]></description>
    <author>e.blackwell@printmag.org (Ezra Blackwell)</author>
    <pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/small-claims-backlog</guid>
    <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The crowded clinic, and the quiet crisis of the small thing.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-crowded-clinic</link>
    <description><![CDATA[The country has confused volume with care. The unfashionable fix is the one nobody on a podium will say.]]></description>
    <author>b.fontaine@printmag.org (Bernard Fontaine)</author>
    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-crowded-clinic</guid>
    <category>healthcare</category> <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The superpower they medicate away.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-superpower-they-medicate-away</link>
    <description><![CDATA[The country's diagnostic instruments compress, into a single five-letter acronym, a cognitive style that includes some of the most generative kinds of attention available to the species.]]></description>
    <author>m.saunders@printmag.org (Margaret Saunders)</author>
    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-superpower-they-medicate-away</guid>
    <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The fair trial we no longer offer.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-fair-trial-we-no-longer-offer</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Section 11(d) promises the accused a fair hearing before an independent and impartial tribunal. The promise is being kept less and less often, and almost never for the addicted.]]></description>
    <author>d.carmichael@printmag.org (Dale Carmichael)</author>
    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The permit that ties a worker to one boss.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-permit-that-ties-a-worker-to-one-boss</link>
    <description><![CDATA[In 2024 a UN expert called Canada's temporary foreign worker programs a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery. The cause was the closed work permit, which binds a worker to one employer, so a person who cannot leave cannot safely complain.]]></description>
    <author>b.fontaine@printmag.org (Bernard Fontaine)</author>
    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The searches the country promised, then began to walk back.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-searches-the-country-promised-then-began-to-walk-back</link>
    <description><![CDATA[After Kamloops, Canada told First Nations to search the grounds of the schools themselves, and put real money behind it. Then, with the work nowhere near done, it started looking for the exit. A retrospective on a search that runs on the communities' timeline, and a country that keeps trying to set a deadline on grief.]]></description>
    <author>b.fontaine@printmag.org (Bernard Fontaine)</author>
    <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The students the country courted, then blamed.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-students-the-country-courted-then-blamed</link>
    <description><![CDATA[For a decade Canada recruited international students as revenue for starved colleges and a labour pipeline. Then in January 2024 it capped their numbers and let them carry the blame for a housing crisis they did not cause.]]></description>
    <author>d.mcleod@printmag.org (Douglas McLeod)</author>
    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <category>housing</category> <category>tenant-rights</category> <category>immigration</category> <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The bail law a single killing rewrote.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-bail-law-a-single-killing-rewrote</link>
    <description><![CDATA[One officer's death, one accused who had been out on bail, and within a year Parliament had rewritten who has to prove they deserve their freedom before trial. A retrospective on Bill C-48, the politics of catch and release, and the Charter principle that quietly shifted underneath it.]]></description>
    <author>d.carmichael@printmag.org (Dale Carmichael)</author>
    <pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <category>civil-liberties</category> <category>policing</category> <category>charter</category> <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The first time Canada ever used the Emergencies Act.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-first-time-canada-used-the-emergencies-act</link>
    <description><![CDATA[On February 14, 2022, Canada invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time, freezing bank accounts and compelling tow trucks. An inquiry said the threshold was met, reluctantly. A Federal Court later said it was not, and breached the Charter. The law is still unsettled.]]></description>
    <author>d.carmichael@printmag.org (Dale Carmichael)</author>
    <pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <category>charter</category> <category>civil-liberties</category> <category>policing</category> <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The emergency cheque the country asked for back.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-emergency-cheque-the-country-asked-for-back</link>
    <description><![CDATA[CERB kept the country standing in 2020, paid out fast on trust. Then the letters came. For the self-employed who followed the government's own unclear guidance, the emergency cheque became a debt.]]></description>
    <author>a.bergeron@printmag.org (Amelie Bergeron)</author>
    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <category>banking</category> <category>financial-services</category> <category>pandemic</category> <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The tap water the country still cannot make safe.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-tap-water-the-country-still-cannot-make-safe</link>
    <description><![CDATA[In 2015 Ottawa promised to end every long-term First Nations drinking water advisory by 2021. The deadline passed. Years later dozens of communities still cannot drink their tap water, and one has been boiling since 1995.]]></description>
    <author>l.hebert@printmag.org (Laurence Hebert)</author>
    <pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <category>first-nations</category> <category>indigenous</category> <category>infrastructure</category> <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[The empty chairs the vaccine mandate left behind.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/the-empty-chairs-the-vaccine-mandate-left</link>
    <description><![CDATA[In late 2021 the federal government required its 267,000 workers to be vaccinated; those who refused went on unpaid leave. The mandate was lifted in mid 2022, and the courts mostly never ruled on whether it was lawful, because by then it was gone.]]></description>
    <author>m.saunders@printmag.org (Margaret Saunders)</author>
    <pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <category>healthcare</category> <category>charter</category> <category>civil-liberties</category> <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[Forty thousand promised, and the years it took to keep it.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/forty-thousand-promised-and-the-years-it-took-to-keep-it</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Canada flew thousands out of Kabul in August 2021, then promised to resettle forty thousand vulnerable Afghans. It met the number, and exceeded it. But the people the program was built for, the interpreters who worked beside Canadian soldiers, spent the most dangerous months of their lives waiting. A retrospective on a promise kept slowly.]]></description>
    <author>j.okafor@printmag.org (James Okafor)</author>
    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/forty-thousand-promised-and-the-years-it-took-to-keep-it</guid>
    <category>immigration</category> <category>civil-liberties</category> <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[Canada documented this history itself, years before Kamloops.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/canada-documented-this-history-itself-years-before-kamloops</link>
    <description><![CDATA[In 2021 radar near a former residential school in Kamloops detected what may be 200 unmarked graves, and the country reacted as if hearing it for the first time. Its own Truth and Reconciliation Commission had documented the system, and thousands of children's deaths, six years earlier.]]></description>
    <author>b.fontaine@printmag.org (Bernard Fontaine)</author>
    <pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.printmag.org/citizens/canada-documented-this-history-itself-years-before-kamloops</guid>
    <category>first-nations</category> <category>truth-and-reconciliation</category> <category>indigenous</category> <category>civil-liberties</category> <category>ontario</category>
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    <title><![CDATA[When the army walked into the care homes.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.printmag.org/citizens/when-the-army-walked-into-the-care-homes</link>
    <description><![CDATA[In the spring of 2020, Canada sent soldiers into long-term care homes that the virus had overwhelmed. What they wrote down, cockroaches, force-feeding, residents left calling for help, was so severe the province took control of five homes. A retrospective on the report that made the country look, and the question of whether anything changed.]]></description>
    <author>m.saunders@printmag.org (Margaret Saunders)</author>
    <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <category>healthcare</category> <category>disability</category> <category>civil-liberties</category> <category>ontario</category>
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