Tag: canada

Thousands of Haitians who fled the United States on foot last summer have started very different lives in Canada.

How Canadian is Justin Bieber? His hometown’s “Steps to Stardom” exhibit provides some answers.

Canadians need to learn the truth — the individual stories of those who attended Residential Schools — before we can ever begin the reconciliation process.

No one twigged that whenever a member of the Harrison family died, it was always just before an important hearing in a bitter child custody battle.

K.D. Lang’s seminal album Ingénue is 25 years old. Penelope Green talks to K.D. Lang about how she’s evolved as an artist in the last quarter century.

Journalists who get screen time are most often men—even when the original story was told by a woman.

It’s -40F. Your mission? Travel 20 miles back to town on skinny skis while pulling a heavy sled over the frozen earth. Oh, by the way — you have 72 hours or you fail the exam.

For the first time in 24 years, there are no NHL players at the Olympics, offering a rare opportunity for a group of journeymen from a nation that claims hockey as its game.

To earn money during a rough patch as a freelancer, Sam Riches worked as a bike courier, delivering food in Toronto during a six-month period. While the job lacked in pay, it offered one intriguing benefit: a crash course in human nature.

All they really wanted was to avoid getting into trouble for stealing a package of cigarettes.

Five pieces about Gord Downie, a man who used his last two years to build a better Canada.

Canada is taking in gay Chechen men subject to persecution, the risk to Canada-Russia relations be damned.

A reporter goes undercover in a Canadian factory to document the vulnerable people in the temporary workforce.

Carl Wilson argues that her genius has been overlooked for far too long, because of her gender.

When someone you love has a fatal disease and chooses to die on their own terms, how do you cope?

Some doctors are struggling with allowing Canadians to die on their own terms.

Canada’s new middle class lives paycheck to paycheck, unwilling to give up certain lifestyle choices.

Betty Ann Adam tells how she was taken from her mother at age three, as part of Canada’s attempt to “remove the Indian from the child.”

Canadian vigilantes with names like Creep Hunters make popular videos busting pedophiles, and many are now refining their tactics to try and go mainstream.

When Canadians privately sponsor a Syrian refugee family, the agreement lasts one year. What happens at month 13?

In The Walrus, Peter Norman boats for a week with followers of Canada’s fear-mongering conspiratorial conservative, Ezra Levant.

Des Kappel is the toponymist in charge of naming the 90,000 remaining land features and lakes in the Canadian province of Manitoba. Kappel’s work is often an emotional tour through history as he collects letters and photos of war casualties for his database.

Michael Friscolanti reports on the 14 everyday Canadians who — galvanized by the sickening image of three-year-old Alan Kurdi face-down on the beach — banded together to sponsor a family of Syrian refugees whose names they did not know, in a bid to “do what’s right. To do something.”

At Maclean’s, Jason Markusoff reports on refugees who, in the face of tighter U.S. immigration restrictions, are risking their lives to find safe haven in Canada and on the network of people helping them do it.

At The Walrus, Nadim Roberts profiles a Canadian imam who is working to counter radicalization with knowledge.

Bike mechanics have historically been a mostly male group, but a group of Canadian women is changing that and increasing access for female cyclists.

Canada seemed like the perfect country: scenic, peaceful, friendly, progressive. But the country has its dark sides too.

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 maximum penalty for assisted suicide was 14 years in prison. I was raising the stakes: by giving Al a pre-death sedative, […]

While we Americans were busy debating the latest in Joe Biden’s will-he-or-won’t-he status and trying to keep track of just how many Republicans are still in the race, Canada went ahead and elected* their next Prime Minister. So who is the soon-to-be resident of 24 Sussex? Justin Trudeau, the leader of Canada’s Liberal Party, is a […]

Below is a guest reading list by Eva Holland, a writer and editor based in Canada’s Yukon Territory, whose work we’ve featured on Longreads many times in the past. * * * Canada’s magazine industry recently threw its biggest party of the year: the National Magazine Awards. The Canadian event differs from the American Ellies, with […]