Long Reads
A doctor’s dilemma
My job as a family physician in small-town British Columbia is a dream come true. It’s also nearly impossible to do.
Len and Cub: A secret love
Len Keith and Cub Coates fell for each other in early 20th-century New Brunswick, at a time and place where queer relationships were taboo. Their story was almost lost forever—until a collection of tender photographs brought their romance into the light.
The hunt for B.C.’s most notorious fisherman
Scott Steer made a career flouting Canada’s commercial fishing laws and the officers who enforce them. One dreary night in Vancouver, it all caught up to him.
The hardest climb
A group of outdoor adventurers are revolutionizing how their sports treat the survivors of tragic accidents
Canadian paramedics are in crisis
PTSD, burnout, and a pandemic. How COVID pushed the country’s overworked first responders into emergency territory
An Act of Evil
The Afzaal family were taking an evening walk in London, Ontario, when a truck struck and killed them. This is the untold story of Nathaniel Veltman, the small-town factory worker accused of their murders.
The Iran-Iraq war, continued
A new book reveals surprising economic subterfuge behind a bloody conflict that still shapes the region
The new faces of Afghan women
How a once-invisible generation, born under Taliban rule, is yanking Afghanistan into the 21st century
Paul Wells: Europe’s breaking point
Targeted by terror and overcome by waves of refugees—a grand experiment is stumbling. A special report by political editor Paul Wells
Bust times are back in Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador is facing a crushing deficit. EI and food banks use is on the rise. How did it turn so wrong, so fast?
Just how safe is the ‘safe’ world of syndicated mortgages?
The condo boom has seen investors pour billions into syndicated mortgages. They’re pitched as high return, low risk investments—but is that too good to be true?
Did Jesus really exist?
Memory research has cast doubt on the few things we knew about Jesus, raising an even bigger question.
The secret to happiness? Stop trying to be happy.
We’re safer, richer, healthier—and more miserable—than ever before. What new research reveals about happiness. And how to find it.
Revenge of the teenage girl
Teenage girls are taking on social stereotypes and a sex-saturated culture. Ignore them at your peril.
NATO’s risky plan to stop Putin
The military alliance is preparing to bulk up its presence in Eastern Europe. Will it thwart Russia, or merely prod the bear?
The humanitarian crisis on America’s doorstep
Why tens of thousands of children from Central America are being sent on a perilous, potentially deadly journey to the U.S. border
The little girl who may hold the secret to aging
From 2014: Mackenzee Wittke, a five-year-old Alberta girl with the body of an infant, might just hold the genetic key to how we age