HealthMy small Ontario town is offering $100,000 to attract family doctors. It’s not working.Marmora has 5,000 residents—and only two family doctors
SocietyThe 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”
SocietyWhy 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”
HealthThe 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
HealthI’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.
SocietyHow 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”
SocietyOur 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."
SocietyI 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”
EnvironmentI’ve spent six years earthquake-proofing my house in anticipation of B.C.’s Big OneExperts warn of a one-in-three chance of Victoria being shaken by earthquakes in the next 50 years. I’m doing all I can to prepare.
TechnologyMy students are using ChatGPT to write papers and exams—and I support it“It made no sense to ban ChatGPT within the university. It was already being used by 100 million people.”