Was Hamed Shafia a teenager when he murdered his sisters?
A closer look at the controversial documents that could win the convicted "honour killer" a new trial—in youth court
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Michael Friscolanti
Senior writer Michael Friscolanti spends a lot of time at crime scenes and courthouses. The author of ’Friendly Fire: The Untold Story of the U.S. Bombing That Killed Four Canadian Soldiers in Afghanistan,’ he has won three CAJ Awards for investigative journalism and four National Magazine Awards.
Inside the Shafia killings that shocked a nation
From the archives: Michael Friscolanti’s longread tells the whole story of the Shafia "honour killings"
Shafia family ’honour killers’ fight for new trial
Lawyers for the imprisoned trio argue that 2012 guilty verdicts may have been ’tainted by cultural prejudice’
The Rajab family is home, at last
When Maclean’s first met the Rajabs, the Syrian family was in a one-room shack in Lebanon. Now life begins again.
Ottawa takes its own revamped advice on Omar Khadr
Although the Liberals have chosen not to appeal the bail order for the ex-Guantánamo inmate, a larger court battle looms
Ten years later, a disgraced refugee judge loses his law license
A decade after Stevan Ellis tried to solicit sex in exchange for allowing a woman to stay in Canada, the former judge’s legal saga is finally over
How a Vietnamese boat person helped save a family of Syrian refugees
Sponsored by strangers nearly four decades ago, Phung Tran is paying forward the life-altering favour—with some help from her ’Canadian grandmother’
‘Welcome to Canada:’ An update on Family No. 417
The Syrian family found itself on the cover of Maclean’s—and then met the Prime Minister
A Syrian family featured on Maclean’s cover meets Justin Trudeau
A family of Syrian refugees featured on the latest cover of Maclean’s met the Prime Minister—and brought a special present
Watch: One Syrian family, 14 Canadians, enormous gratitude
Video: Michael Friscolanti on an inspiring group of Canadians who banded together to sponsor a mother and her three children