On the fleeting magic of volleyball.

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.

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

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

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

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

A profile of new Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau.

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

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

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

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

Searching for the line between courage and humility on an expedition to Cirque of the Unclimbables, a remote ring of perfect rock-climbing mountains in Canada.

The Nazis stole his family’s paintings, but Max Stern escaped and became one of Canada’s leading art dealers. Now, 20 after his death, he is changing the rules of restitution.

How a Canadian used a Mohawk reservation’s lakes to smuggle tons of marijuana to stash houses in Brooklyn and Staten Island, resulting in nearly a billion in profits, which he laundered through the Sinaloa Cartel.

Finding peace and quiet in the high Canadian Arctic.

Previously: The Longform Guide to Silence.

How a group of vigilante cat-lovers seeking the hooded figure who suffocated a kitten in an internet video found a sadistic killer.

On the rise of Indian Posse, the largest of Canada’s native gangs, and the fall of its leader.

Why hundreds of Buddhist monks moved from Taiwan to Prince Edward Island, buying up thousands of acres of land in the process.

On the theft of 6 million pounds of maple syrup from Canada’s strategic reserve and the group of free market renegades who are fighting “The Maple Wars.”

In 1968, the author revisits remote British Columbia, which he traveled two years earlier.

On the economics, impact, and communities of the international pipeline.

How is Canada’s “post-AIDS” generation coping? Not that well.

[I]n some ways we are still hopelessly lost. A generation of men who could have been our mentors was decimated. The only thing we learned from observing them was to ruthlessly identify “AIDS face,” that skeletal appearance the early HIV drugs wrought on patients by wasting away their bodily tissues. But those faces grow more rare each day.

The Canadian scapegoat of the AIDS epidemic.

On the life of an American soldier AWOL in Canada.