The Exile
In January, 2017 — before Trump’s inauguration — physician Khaled Almilaji spent a week in Syria to check on his many humanitarian projects, leaving his pregnant wife Jehan behind in the United States. Expecting to return well before Trump’s inauguration, Khaled discovered at the airport that his visa — along with those of 40 other medical students, mostly from the Middle East — had been revoked in the month before Trump took office.
How to End a Life
Even though medically assisted death has been legal in Canada for a year, it remains controversial. Although some palliative care doctors — who believe in providing physical and psychological comforts to patients, but not in hastening death — are vehemently opposed to what they view as an immoral act, other doctors are slowly coming to terms with the patient’s new right to die in cases where death is “reasonably foreseeable.”
Love and Death
When a controlling Canadian neurosurgeon was charged with murdering his wife, a brilliant family doctor, Canada had to stare in the violent face of the patriarchy one more time.
Disgraced
As told to writer Katherine Laidlaw, ER doctor Darryl Gebein describes how he became addicted to fentanyl—and lost everything.
On the Right to Die: John Hofsess’ Secret Assisted Suicide Service
At Toronto Life, John Hofsess posthumously reveals the secret assisted suicide service he offered to eight Canadians — among them the poet Al Purdy — on the day of his own assisted death.
The Body Snatchers
What happens when PR campaigns decide who gets an organ?
The Fixer
Meet Marie Henein, the high-profile female defense attorney fighting to keep Jian Ghomeshi out of prison.
The Tenant From Hell
A Toronto couple unwittingly sublets their house to a serial fraudster who turns it into an illegal boarding house, cramming it with temporary walls and some fifteen tenants.
The Skin I’m In
A black Canadian man reflects on a lifetime of police interrogations and the high social cost of police carding.
The Killing of Sammy Yatim
The death of Sammy Yatim unleashed a torrent of anti-police outrage in Toronto. For most Torontonians, the video was the verdict. But what really happened on the Dundas streetcar that night? Toronto Life’s Mary Rogan on the untold story of the cop who pulled the trigger.
