The Shadowy Business of International Education
Foreign students are lied to and exploited on every front. They’re also propping up higher education as we know it
Foreign students are lied to and exploited on every front. They’re also propping up higher education as we know it
Nicholas Hune-Brown The Walrus Aug 2021 25min Permalink
A Canadian man won’t touch money, except to destroy it.
Tori Marian Capital Daily Jul 2021 40min Permalink
Gavin McInnes used to be known as a Vice magazine co-founder with controversial political leanings and an affinity for darkly unfunny jokes. Now, he’s also known as the founder of the far-right group the Proud Boys.
Adam Leith Gollner Vanity Fair Jun 2021 Permalink
A fugitive from the US started fresh on Vancouver Island—then bilked new victims out of millions of dollars while law enforcement refused to act.
Tori Marlan Capital Daily Apr 2021 50min Permalink
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
The Canadian scapegoat of the AIDS epidemic.
Guy Babineau Xtra West Nov 2007 20min Permalink
In the pandemic, “caremongering” has become a new term for an old—and joyous—practice
Vicky Mochama The Walrus Sep 2020 15min Permalink
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
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
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
A flight attendant caught between various loves and worlds.
Hana Mason Little Fiction Feb 2020 10min Permalink
How a bunch of Canadian hipsters wound up smuggling cocaine (and getting caught).
Kate Knibbs The Ringer Dec 2019 25min Permalink
How the Lyubov Orlova became the infamous “cannibal-rat ghost ship.”
Randi Beers CBC News Nov 2019 20min Permalink
Various forms of isolation in rural Canada.
Alison Braid Barren Magazine Jan 2019 15min Permalink
A murder, a missing deer head, and a Mr. Big sting.
Jana G. Pruden The Globe and Mail Oct 2018 30min Permalink
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
How the relationship between Canada and America broke.
Guy Lawson New York Times Magazine Jun 2018 20min Permalink
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
On the fleeting magic of volleyball.
Richard Kelly Kemick Maisonnueve Feb 2017 20min Permalink
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
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
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
The inside story of Target’s brief, disastrous expansion north.
Joe Castaldo Canadian Business Jan 2016 30min Permalink
Life as the most famous children’s musician on earth.
Sheila Heti New York Dec 2015 25min Permalink
A profile of new Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau.
Guy Lawson New York Times Magazine Nov 2015 15min Permalink