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Navneet Alang

Navneet Alang is a technology and culture writer based in Toronto.

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The Transformation of Josh Matlow

Once an ardent centrist, the midtown councillor has tacked a course to the left in recent years and is now running as progressive truth-teller. Can a politician change? Can a city?

Essay by Navneet Alang

Sunday in the Suburbs

The broad emptiness, the desolate streets, the deadening sameness—it turned out my parents’ suburban neighbourhood was the ideal place to live through a global pandemic.

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