A doctor’s dilemma
My job as a family physician in small-town British Columbia is a dream come true. It’s also nearly impossible to do.
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Len and Cub: A secret love
Len Keith and Cub Coates fell for each other in early 20th-century New Brunswick, at a time and place where queer relationships were taboo. Their story was almost lost forever—until a collection of tender photographs brought their romance into the light.
The hardest climb
A group of outdoor adventurers are revolutionizing how their sports treat the survivors of tragic accidents
The hunt for B.C.’s most notorious fisherman
Scott Steer made a career flouting Canada’s commercial fishing laws and the officers who enforce them. One dreary night in Vancouver, it all caught up to him.
Canadian paramedics are in crisis
PTSD, burnout, and a pandemic. How COVID pushed the country’s overworked first responders into emergency territory
The nurse imposter
Brigitte Cleroux faked her credentials and treated hundreds of patients across Canada. Why did no one stop her?
Emily St. John Mandel can’t stop writing about pandemics
Her novel Station Eleven imagined a world ravaged by a pandemic long before COVID-19 existed. Now, she’s gone through one herself.
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
Scenes from the war in Ukraine
When Russia invaded, Canadian photographer Philip Cheung travelled to Kyiv to capture the devastation
Kirsten Hillman on U.S. protectionism and the possible return of Donald Trump
Canada’s first female ambassador to the U.S. talks Canada’s relationship with its neighbour to the south and why things aren’t as tense as they seem