Street Fighter
A Canadian youth worker has become a social justice celebrity, utilizing social media to advocate for his vulnerable teen clients. Many call him a hero, but others question the safety and ethics of his work.
Mark Cherrington’s phone rings for the first time well before 4 a.m., the Samsung glowing in the dark as he grabs it off the bedside table. His wife barely notices. In nine years of marriage, she’s grown accustomed to late night phone calls, and she usually turns over and goes back to sleep. The girl calling just needs to talk. If she needed help right then, Cherrington would be up and gone. Instead, he speaks to her until she feels better, then catches a few minutes of sleep before crawling out of bed.
A Family, a Fire and the Aftermath
Grant Cunningham’s violent death ricocheted over 18 years in the final fate of his brother Blair:
The air was cool and damp, the temperature hovering above zero but feeling colder, the last bite of winter pushing back against the warm spring sun. By the last Saturday in March, 2013, Blair Cunningham had moved into a new apartment. His mother helped him set up the place, and it was sparsely furnished with her extra towels and linens, an old coffee maker and a TV, a bed she bought for him.
He was back in the old neighbourhood in Mill Woods, living just down the street from where he grew up in the 1980s and ‘90s, when his brother and his dad were still alive; a time before Blair knew about murder and justice.