Mark Messier on leadership, trust and magic mushrooms

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First it took his mom. Then his dad. Then, finally, him. The story of a family stolen by COVID-19.

health

Arctic narwhals have a new enemy: the noise of passing ships

Suddenly, narwhals are, like so many patrons in a noisy bar, tasked with communicating amid clamour—and they’re struggling.

environment

Society

Environment

These adventurers are on a 7,600-km journey from the top to the bottom of Canada

adventure

"I had gone into this process hoping to find our embryos a loving family. But now we were finding a loving family for ourselves, too."

Parents are giving away their extra frozen embryos. Inside a new fertility trend.

longreads

residential schools

The working class has had enough

‘It’s embarrassing to be called a hero when you’re selling groceries. You don’t feel like you’re a hero—you’re scared s--tless and you’re just trying to get through your day like everybody else.’

The pandemic has accelerated the crowning of globalization’s winners and losers, and the left-behinds are just waiting for someone to speak up for them, says a Tory strategist

This bizarre array of policy friends and enemies ‘simply says that common sense prevails,’ Cronk says. ‘COVID gave us the pulpit on which to say, “This never made sense.” ’

pandemic

Jody Wilson-Raybould on Ottawa’s power problem—and how more free thinkers can change things

The Interview

Politics

A Canadian died of an opioid overdose every 49 minutes during one deadly week. These are their stories.

From July 11 to July 17, 2020, toxic drugs killed at least 207 Canadians, according to data compiled by <em>Maclean’s</em>. That is more than 29 people a day, for seven straight days.

“I said to the cops: ‘For you, it’s one less drug dealer. For me, it’s my lovely boy.’ ”

“The unspoken messaging around the toxic drug crisis is: ‘I’m glad it’s you and not me.’”

“People think addiction is a moral failing but we know that’s not true,” says Dr. Monty Ghosh, an addiction specialist at the University of Alberta Hospital. “Substance use disorder is basically a biological process in which the pathways of reward in the brain get hijacked.”

“This isn’t people taking a little bit too much because they overestimated their tolerance. This is poisoning. These are drugs people don’t know they’re taking, and wouldn’t take if they had a choice.”

“Your window of opportunity is about an inch, and guess how long you have to wait to get a bed? People watch television, they see Intervention, and they think it’s just that easy to get help. It’s not.”

“He was handsome as hell and really kind. He used to collect all the rough ones at school, and if a friend was struggling, he would always figure out a way to help.”

More than a year later, Canada’s overdose crisis rages on, minute by minute, coast to coast. National modelling projections, released in June by PHAC, show that opioids could kill up to 2,000 people each quarter this year.

opioids

It isn’t just about giving money—connection is very important. Children need connection, and they need to know that people care about them.

longreads

Mark Messier on leadership, trust and magic mushrooms

First it took his mom. Then his dad. Then, finally, him. The story of a family stolen by COVID-19.

The sound of too much noise

These adventurers are on a 7,600-km journey from the top to the bottom of Canada

We gave them our leftover frozen embryos. Now, we’re a family.

Finding David Lightning: The decades-long quest to locate an unmarked grave

The working class has had enough

Jody Wilson-Raybould on Ottawa’s power problem

Every 49 minutes

How World Vision changed my life

THE IMMIGRATION ISSUE

Why Gen Z Will Never Leave Home

How To Fix Canada’s Housing Crisis

Schools vs. Screens