What is xylazine, the dangerous new drug fuelling Canada’s opioid crisis?Kali Sedgemore, a harm-reduction worker in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, has seen its impact firsthand
The Move: We’re retirees who bought a granny flat to live near our daughter and save money“We live in a prefab cabin on her 50-acre property”
I’m a family doctor in Halifax. Pay-for-service clinics will burden the public system.A renewed interest in pay-for-service clinics could restrict health care access for those who need it most
Why I gave up my condo and moved in with my best friend and her family“We started a group chat called Modern Fam Jam to coordinate everything”
Inside the Vancouver lab where scientists (legally) grow magic mushrooms The Filament Health facility looks like something out of The Last of Us
The Big Idea: Stockpile Canada’s DrugsThe pandemic—and one very bad winter—have exposed long-standing gaps in Canada’s pharma supply. We can’t get caught off-guard again
I’m a Canadian ER nurse who took a job in the U.S. so my family can surviveBetween travel-nursing contracts and leaving the country, my colleagues are doing whatever we can to find stability. I don’t blame any of us for looking for work elsewhere.
How Canada’s housing crisis is fuelling violence on our public-transit systems“I’ve worked in public transit for nearly 40 years, and I’ve never seen things so bad”
Our farm’s rescue animals have become TikTok stars"People don’t see farm animals as companions, so to watch a guy feeding apples to a pig or bell peppers to a cow can be mesmerizing."
I share financial advice with my 100,000 TikTok followers“The ability to focus on investing and long-term wealth was a luxury my parents didn’t have”