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Canada

The Lives of Others

Two women gave birth on the same day in a place called Come By Chance. They didn’t know each other, and never would. Half a century later, their children made a shocking discovery.

Lindsay Jones The Atavist Magazine Apr 2021 40min Permalink

Science

Gaétan Dugas and the 'AIDS Mary' Myth

The Canadian scapegoat of the AIDS epidemic.

Guy Babineau Xtra West Nov 2007 20min Permalink

World

Black Communities Have Known about Mutual Aid All Along

In the pandemic, “caremongering” has become a new term for an old—and joyous—practice

Vicky Mochama The Walrus Sep 2020 15min Permalink

Crime

Michelle Remembers

In the 1980s some of the world’s most powerful institutions were taken in by stories, begun in Victoria B.C., of a global Satanic underground abducting and abusing thousands of children.

Jen Gerson The Capital Aug 2020 Permalink

Tech

Death of a Smart City

The rise and fall of Quayside, a futuristic city concept that Google’s Sidewalk Labs planned to build in neglected part of Toronto.

Brian J. Barth OneZero Aug 2020 Permalink

The Search for Mackie Basil

Seven years ago, a young Indigenous woman from Tache, BC, went to a party and never came back. Her family won’t stop looking for her.

ANNIE HYLTON The Walrus, Longreads Feb 2020 35min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Nobody Girl"

A flight attendant caught between various loves and worlds.

Hana Mason Little Fiction Feb 2020 10min Permalink

Crime

“Worked at Vice Then Went to Jail”

How a bunch of Canadian hipsters wound up smuggling cocaine (and getting caught).

Kate Knibbs The Ringer Dec 2019 25min Permalink

History

Into the Abyss

How the Lyubov Orlova became the infamous “cannibal-rat ghost ship.”

Randi Beers CBC News Nov 2019 20min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "A Portrait"

Various forms of isolation in rural Canada.

Alison Braid Barren Magazine Jan 2019 15min Permalink

Best Article Crime

After the Fire

A murder, a missing deer head, and a Mr. Big sting.

Jana G. Pruden The Globe and Mail Oct 2018 30min Permalink

Business World

The City That Had Too Much Money

Known abroad primarily for its stunning Pacific Coast setting and athletic lifestyle, the city [Vancouver] has since become one of the world’s largest sluices for questionable funds moving from Asia into Western economies.

Matthew Campbell, Natalie Obiko Pearson Bloomberg Businessweek Oct 2018 20min Permalink

Best Article Politics World

First Canada Tried to Charm Trump. Now It’s Fighting Back.

How the relationship between Canada and America broke.

Guy Lawson New York Times Magazine Jun 2018 20min Permalink

Crime

Backfire

After a cop walks into his station and confesses to murder, an investigation reveals the toll of lethal force on both sides of the gun.

Wendy Gillis The Toronto Star Dec 2017 35min Permalink

Sports

All on the Line

On the fleeting magic of volleyball.

Richard Kelly Kemick Maisonnueve Feb 2017 20min Permalink

Crime

Inside Quebec’s Great, Multi-Million-Dollar Maple-Syrup Heist

How FPAQ, the Canadian group that controls 72 percent of the world’s supply of maple syrup, caused one of the greatest agricultural crimes in history.

Rich Cohen Vanity Fair Dec 2016 15min Permalink

The Big Smoke

How the “biggest grow op willing to publish its address” could make Canada an international pioneer in the legalization and commercialization of weed.

Brett Popplewell The Walrus Aug 2016 30min Permalink

World

Refugees Encounter a Foreign Word: Welcome

Across the world, millions of displaced Syrians have been met with hesitation and hostility. Not in Canada.

Jodi Kantor, Catrin Einhorn New York Times Jul 2016 Permalink

Business

The Last Days of Target Canada

The inside story of Target’s brief, disastrous expansion north.

Joe Castaldo Canadian Business Jan 2016 30min Permalink

Arts Music

Finding Raffi

Life as the most famous children’s musician on earth.

Sheila Heti New York Dec 2015 25min Permalink

Politics World

Trudeau's Canada, Again

A profile of new Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau.

Guy Lawson New York Times Magazine Nov 2015 15min Permalink

Crime World

Dr. Shock

How an apartheid-era psychiatrist went from torturing gay soldiers in South Africa to sexually abusing patients in Canada.

Richard Poplak The Walrus Aug 2015 25min Permalink

Science

The Girl Who Killed Half a Million Flies

Beatrice White, the Toronto girl who won the city’s turn-of-the-century fly-swatting contest.

Katie Daubs The Toronto Star Aug 2015 10min Permalink

Business

Ribbers Got Beef

In Ontario, Canada, ribfests were largely non-profit affairs. Then one man decided to make a profit off their popularity.

Michael Fraiman The Globe and Mail Aug 2015 20min Permalink

Business World

The Kingdom of Haymour

An immigrant from Lebanon, a hair-cutting fortune, and the dream of building a castle on an island in British Columbia.

Omar Mouallem Eighteen Bridges Nov 2013 30min Permalink

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