Tag: canada

“I’m amazed at our human capacity to adapt to the unbearable. Almost anything can seem normal if it’s inflicted on us long enough.”

How a journalist found her voice as her mother lost hers.

Neil Peart “was brilliant enough to skip two grades, starting high school at 12. He began drum lessons, practicing for a full year without an actual kit.”

“The world should not, cannot, go back to business as usual without a clearer understanding and consciousness of how we live.”

How two kids from London, Ontario birthed the most unique goal in hockey’s history.

An incomplete portrait of a nation emerges from a stash of old print magazines.

Exotic critters have gnawed the frail threads that once bound a small Ontario community.

Seven years ago, a young woman from Tache, British Columbia, went out for the evening and never came back. Her family won’t stop looking for her, and they deserve answers.

Canada’s old white publishing institutions are a lesson in what happens when your media industry contracts: journalism no longer serves the reality of the country.

There’s a direct line from missing and murdered indigenous women to the repression of Native women’s contributions to art and culture, but those long-silenced voices are now making themselves heard.

When I was a kid, I wanted my antisemitic tormentors to accept me. I wanted to be their friend.

On the cusp of a life-changing procedure, Jane Rideau Demuth makes peace with the paths that brought her here, and the obstacles she had to wrestle with along the way.

Weed? Turns out it’s tricky to grow your own.

How Canada’s new, educated, organized far-right has been using a video game app to try to influence mainstream politics and create a white ethno-state.

“It is so essential to morale that army and ­navy officers of the highest rank list mail almost on a level with munitions and food.”

But I’m a creep / I’m a weirdo / What the hell am I doing here? / I don’t belong here

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.