Society

For the last year-and-a-half, I’ve worked my day job from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., then headed to the restaurant to start my night shift. I work 75 hours a week and we’re still scrambling to keep up with our payments.

This fall, amid waves of protests, the East Toronto Multifaith Community organized a peaceful, apolitical vigil for their grieving neighbours. Here, they describe the healing experience.

"A Better Tent City empowers its residents by offering them privacy, independence and stability within the safety of their own home" 

"It’s like living with friends who are smarter and wiser than I am," says 20-year old Goodness Ade, who moved from Nigeria to Canada three years ago

In Toronto, I found a new purpose running an Indonesian restaurant

RCMP officer Dean Lerat, a member of Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan, found many of his long-lost relatives using a DNA-testing kit. Now he helps others connect with their own families, fragmented by colonialism. The results tell the story of a whole nation.

In a suburban industrial park, John de Ruiter built up a spiritual movement, mashing up Christian theology and New Age mysticism. Today, eight former followers claim he brainwashed them into sex. The case against him will test the boundaries of consent.

Entomologist Yasmin Akhtar on how to spot them, the buggiest cities and how bad the problem really is

Hundreds of tenants, struggling to afford skyrocketing rents, are refusing to pay their landlords at all. They call it a rent strike. The landlords say it’s illegal. An inside look at the frontier of a growing class war

“We’re real and we’re valid. We deserve the same rights as everyone else.”