Listen to the Sound of My Voice By Seyward Darby Highlight How a journalist found her voice as her mother lost hers.
Rush Drummer Neil Peart: Master Student By Krista Stevens Highlight 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.”
‘Everyone Benefits from a Frozen Arctic’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “The world should not, cannot, go back to business as usual without a clearer understanding and consciousness of how we live.”
The NHL’s Lacrosse Takeover By Sam Riches Feature How two kids from London, Ontario birthed the most unique goal in hockey’s history.
Snapshot of Canada: An Accidental Reading List By Aaron Gilbreath Feature An incomplete portrait of a nation emerges from a stash of old print magazines.
The Zoo That Divided a Town By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Exotic critters have gnawed the frail threads that once bound a small Ontario community.
Searching For Mackie By Annie Hylton Feature 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.
The Great White Nope By Soraya Roberts Feature 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.
‘Women Created Our Worlds:’ Native Art Reclaims Its Power By Soraya Roberts Feature 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.
I’ve Done a Lot of Forgetting By Jordan Michael Smith Feature When I was a kid, I wanted my antisemitic tormentors to accept me. I wanted to be their friend.
At Transformation By Jane Rideau Demuth Feature 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.
The Great Cannabis Experiment: Ian Brown on Growing Your Own Weed By Krista Stevens Highlight Weed? Turns out it’s tricky to grow your own.
Canada’s Breeding Ground for Hate By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight 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.
She Kept Every Letter By Krista Stevens Highlight “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.”
The Voyeur of Queen and Spadina By Krista Stevens Commentary But I’m a creep / I’m a weirdo / What the hell am I doing here? / I don’t belong here
Finding True North By Amy Bracken Feature Thousands of Haitians who fled the United States on foot last summer have started very different lives in Canada.
We Stand on Guard for Bieber By Soraya Roberts Feature How Canadian is Justin Bieber? His hometown’s “Steps to Stardom” exhibit provides some answers.
In Canada, Truth and Reconciliation Starts with Educating Ourselves and Our Kids By Krista Stevens Highlight Canadians need to learn the truth — the individual stories of those who attended Residential Schools — before we can ever begin the reconciliation process.
How to (Almost) Get Away With Murder By Krista Stevens Highlight 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 Will Indulge Your Craving for “Constant Craving” By Krista Stevens Commentary 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.
Why Can’t Female Reporters Stay in the Picture? By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary Journalists who get screen time are most often men—even when the original story was told by a woman.
Polar Exploration: The Story of Pain By Krista Stevens Highlight 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.
A Shot at Glory By Sam Riches Feature 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 Your Door: The Human Cost of Food Delivery By Krista Stevens Highlight 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.
The Nearly Impossible Journey of a Long-Term Survivor By Krista Stevens Highlight All they really wanted was to avoid getting into trouble for stealing a package of cigarettes.
Ahead by a Century: A Gord Downie Reading List By Krista Stevens Reading List Five pieces about Gord Downie, a man who used his last two years to build a better Canada.
The Rainbow Railroad to Canada for Gay Chechen Men By Krista Stevens Highlight Canada is taking in gay Chechen men subject to persecution, the risk to Canada-Russia relations be damned.
A Bakery Death Reveals the Vulnerable Lives of Temporary Workers By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A reporter goes undercover in a Canadian factory to document the vulnerable people in the temporary workforce.
On Why Joni Mitchell Deserves Her Due By Krista Stevens Highlight Carl Wilson argues that her genius has been overlooked for far too long, because of her gender.
Making Your Own Appointment to Die By Krista Stevens Highlight When someone you love has a fatal disease and chooses to die on their own terms, how do you cope?
