These Canadians are roughing it on YouTube for millions of fans
With their chickens, preserves and off-grid adventures on full display, Canada’s homesteading YouTubers are escaping the ills of modern life—in a thoroughly modern format
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Life
How to fight the climate crisis with electricity
Canada can cut its emissions by scaling up one of our oldest technologies
The hardest climb
A group of outdoor adventurers are revolutionizing how their sports treat the survivors of tragic accidents
After an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, these sisters became Tiktok stars
Two women in B.C. show that you can own your dementia—one irreverent TikTok at a time
One man’s mission to find the presidential origins of his cabinet
How a troubling diagnosis led Nova Scotia’s Brian Doucette on a quest for the truth about his furniture
Pandemic puppies have a major anxiety problem
All those dogs Canadians adopted during the pandemic? They’re a little undersocialized now.
To my Grade 10 English teacher: ‘You were the sanctuary I needed to survive those dark high school years’
KC Hoard thanks the teacher who taught him how to write
The key to survival: Find five people. Hold them close.
Close relationships—about five of them—are as essential as food and water, according to this author
To my birth mother: ‘I’m not searching for who I want to be anymore—I’m discovering who I am’
‘Thank you for your love and bravery,’ Charmaine Traynor-Ruitenberg writes to the woman who gave her up for adoption
The joy of clutter
Surrounding ourselves with things we love is a salve in trying times