April 2024 issue
The Great Airbnb Crackdown
Last year, a massive blaze consumed several illegal Airbnb units in Montreal and killed seven people. The tragedy shone a harsh light on the Wild West of Airbnb in Canadian cities—and the battle to regulate it has just begun.
The Incel Terrorist
Oguzhan Sert was 17 when he walked into a Toronto massage parlour and killed an employee with a sword. The Crown argued the attack wasn’t just murder, but an act of terror against women. The hard part would be proving it.
Quebec’s New French Revolution
When I moved to Montreal, it was a vibrant, multilingual metropolis. Now François Legault is waging war on English and on the cosmopolitanism that makes it Canada’s greatest city.
The Ontario photographer who shoots abandoned churches, schools and mansions
His images reveal the things we leave behind
Montreal’s Gabriel Diallo is a tennis giant in the making
At 22 (and six-foot-eight), Diallo is a towering presence at the net, drawing comparisons to another Canadian upstart: Milos Raonic
The Canadian doctor who helped invent Ozempic
Decades ago, Toronto researcher Daniel Drucker co-discovered a hormone that paved the way for today’s most-talked-about drug. Does he get the hype? Yes and no.
“I fled the war in Ukraine. Now I help other newcomers settle in Canada.”
My daughter and I were lucky to find a host family in Ottawa. I want to pay it forward.
Habitat: Inside a technicolor kids’ wonderland in Toronto’s east end
The owners gutted the place and turned it into a retro fun house