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    Kristi Herrling has four young children and a practice of more than 1,000 patients. She works from 7:30 a.m. until late into the night, finding time in between to pack lunches, give goodbye kisses, brush teeth and read bedtime stories. (Photos by Grant Harder)

    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.

    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.

    (Photograph by Allison Seto)

    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?

    (Photography by Erik Tanner)

    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.

    (Illustration by Selman Hoşgör)

    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

    Seven evacuation busses from Bucha arrive in Bilohorodka transporting around 200 displaced people. (Photograph by Philip Cheung)

    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

    Why is Pierre Poilievre so angry?

    He’s smart, savvy and he’s steering a new brand of Canadian conservatism. How Pierre Poilievre became the champion of the anti-Trudeau mob.

    Zarqa Nawaz (Photograph by Carey Shaw)

    Zarqa Nawaz had a hit show, then a decade-long dry spell. She’s ready for her second act.

    She had a hit with Little Mosque on the Prairie. Then came a years-long creative slump–until she landed a book deal and TV series on the same day.

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