“Inside the fight between residents, conservationists, and governments over the most divisive and persecuted bird on the planet.”
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Living With My Ex
“In the space of two weeks, my partner came out as gay and told me she was pregnant. What could have been the end of our family turned into a new beginning.”
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The Dam, the Myth, the Legend: 50 Years of the Beaver
“An exploration of the buck-toothed, flat-tailed, landscape-shifting icon celebrating 50 years as Canada’s national symbol.”
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The Diabolical World of Phone Scams
“How the RCMP busted the biggest fraud ever to target Canadians—and why they can’t keep up anymore.”
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Why Gen Z Will Never Leave Home
“Thanks to soaring housing costs, a generation of twentysomethings are still in their childhood bedrooms. A portrait of family life with no empty nest.”
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Protectors of Aqviqtuuq
“The northern tip of mainland Canada is a paradise of caribou, polar bears and Arctic char as yet undisturbed by mining. The residents of Taloyoak, Nunavut, are fighting to keep it that way.”
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The Death of an Asylum Seeker and the Shelter Crisis in Peel
“The number of asylum seekers and refugees needing shelter has surged in recent years, leaving officials in suburban municipalities like Peel scrambling to respond.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories from Michelle Shephard, Adrienne Mason, Dylan Levi King, Sara Mitchell, and Saskia Solomon.
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The Jackpot Generation
“Canada is in the midst of the greatest wealth transfer of all time, as some $1 trillion passes from boomers to their millennial kids. How an inheritance-based economy will transform the country.”
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The Big Life — and Looming Death — of a Rocky Mountain Defender
“He says that experience left him with a different understanding of his work and its purpose.”