The unjudging eye of Ed Burtynsky’s camera
From 2016: One of Canada’s finest photographers considers his craft—and the relationship between his art and the truth
The Vault
The Uber business strategy gets intimate
Users in over 60 cities electronically book a massage therapist to appear on their doorstep in as little as an hour
Museum of African-American History: Admission is free. Exit is not.
From 2016: Discrimination isn’t ancient history. A Washington museum shows the truth of that.
Orthodontics a huge challenge for Northern residents
An acute lack of dental care in the North means 465 flights a year to get braces fitted and tightened
HMS Terror: How the final Franklin ship was found
From 2016: How one man’s efforts to build inroads with northern communities helped uncover the second of Sir John Franklin’s doomed ships
For Peter Wohlleben, trees and humans aren’t so different
From nursing sick neighbours to taking care of saplings, a ‘Wood Wide Web’ is fuelling personal connections in the forest
Yazidi women tell their horrific stories
From 2016: In a search for justice in a blood-soaked land, the victims of Islamic State’s worst atrocities speak up
The making of Penny Oleksiak
From 2016: At nine Penny Oleksiak could barely swim. At the Rio Olympics, she won four medals, set one Olympic record and five Canadian records. Oh, and she’s just getting started.
How do young people afford a house? They find roommates.
When house prices are out of reach, some buyers will go to extreme lengths to get into the market
Why parents should give up trying to produce perfect kids
Alison Gopnik on the problems with parenting today—and how to embrace messes