June 2024 issue

The battle over one tent village in a portside Vancouver park turned it into the city’s only fully legal tent community. What that means for the thousands of Canadians living in encampments nationwide.

Sexy mocktails, zero-alcohol beer and boozeless bars are everywhere. Why it’s never been cooler (or easier) to go alcohol-free.

“People blame international students like me for the housing crisis. I’m thinking of leaving.”

An Etsy seller fills her lakeside B.C. cottage with secondhand treasures

Calgary’s centrist ex-mayor will have to win over skeptical NDP voters—and take on Danielle Smith—to reclaim Alberta. He’s looking forward to it.

"I travelled two hours and got five MRIs done at once. The next day, I finally had answers.”

"There’s no wondering about our health—we can just call and ask.”

"I still don’t understand why I was able to get surgery in eight weeks when I paid for it, but 18 to 24 months if I’d used the public system."

"I know that if I email the clinic, I’ll get a response within a few hours, and I can refill my prescriptions via email as well."

"My doctor told me MRIs were moving quickly those days—I’d only have to wait a few months. But that was longer than my EI would last me."