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Rude Awakening

Pills are often prescribed to seniors as a quick fix for sleep issues, but they aren’t a sustainable solution.

For Peat's Sake

When a bog is transported to Montreal only to be abandoned, there's much we can learn about our approach to nature.

Breaking the News

Amid a crisis of trust in media, live journalism seeks to reconnect journalists and audiences.

Missing Values

As policymakers set their sights on frameworks beyond GDP, the question of what it means to quantify a nation's wellbeing becomes pressing.

Word Search

As AI elbows its way into the translation industry, our machines—and their creators—are taking the humanity out of language.

Exit Music

DIY shows have been a lifeline for musicians. Now the tech industry wants to bring the scene above-board.

Burning Up

The climate is boiling over and so is our health-care system; there's a future in which communal care addresses both problems.

The Prescription

There is a pill that makes Fawn Parker happy, she writes, and another that makes her see her own death.

Vanity Fair

It’s not easy being hot and serving ice cream waffle sandwiches at the Ex, Alexandra Kimball knows—but someone has to do it.

Saving Seeds

As climate change threatens global food security, Ruth Kamnitzer explains how seeds of the past are safeguarding food for the future.

The Path Forward

Jesse Galganov disappeared while backpacking in Peru nearly five years ago. When a friend goes missing, writes Ben Libman, there’s both everything and nothing to do about it.

Against the Clock

Time restraints in long-term care homes create tension for residents and workers. Jackie Brown and Leanna Katz consider alternative ways to structure their days.

A Life in Limbo

Applying for permanent residency on humanitarian and compassionate grounds is a last resort for migrants in Canada. Christopher Chanco explores a convoluted system.

Mushroom Medicine

A terminal diagnosis can leave patients with anxiety, depression and countless questions. Could psychedelic therapy give them the answers they’re looking for?

Occult Following

Growing up a Jehovah’s Witness, Daniel Allen Cox was taught to believe in imaginary threats. In retrospect, he writes, that only made it harder to see the real dangers around him.

Warning Signs

Acts of anti-Asian racism have increased at an alarming rate since the pandemic began. Fiona Tinwei Lam tries to make sense of senseless hate.

Saving Finn Slough

In British Columbia, a historic Finnish fishing village has weathered many storms. Now, its residents face their biggest battle yet.

Seeking Sanctuary

Toronto’s homelessness crisis has reached new heights. Stephanie Bai meets members of a community fighting for their lives.

The Men in Apartment 4C

When Isaac Würmann’s relationship began to crumble, he started seeking out examples of queer love elsewhere. It turns out, he didn’t have to look far.

Genetic Mapping

DNA tests promise to tell people who they are and where they’re from. But for Emma Gilchrist, a search for answers only led to more questions.

Tethered Together

How far would you go for your friends? On a canoe trip along the Ottawa River, Nathan Munn dives deep for the answers.

Bought the Farm

Small family farms are disappearing, but not for the reasons people tend to think. As investors rush in, farmers can’t hold on to their land.

Pathfinding

It took years for journalist Jody Porter to see that writing about other people’s pain can be a way of hiding from your own.

Labour of Love

Politicians have whittled down public health care for years. While caring for his dad, Ryan David Allen learned who picks up the slack.

The Hand That Feeds You

How did we end up with a farming system that endangers both its workers and the people it feeds? Experts say this is Canada’s Gordian knot, but Francesca Bianco tries to unravel it anyway.

Degrees of Freedom

Secularism supposedly only limits public life, but hundreds of thousands of Quebecers know it’s not that simple.

Flipping Out

Montrealers have always fought to keep rent low. What happens when they no longer know who or how to fight?

Habitat Loss

A man arrived in Grand Bend, Ontario, believing it was a refuge for strange species. Kieran Delamont observes the fallout.

Testing the Waters

A few citizens in Saskatchewan doubted the official account of an oil spill, Lauren Kaljur reports. But what could they do?

Broken Up

These days people love the idea of interracial marriages, Natalie Harmsen writes, but that’s different from trying to make one work.

Mine Reading

Reckoning with a homegrown hell showed that turning around emissions can also mean turning a profit.

Awkward Cause

It’s hard to live low-carbon, especially when you feel like you’re the only one. Kate Black meets a Calgary misfit who keeps trying to fit in.

In the Burn

In wildfire-ravaged BC, Rachel Jansen learns to keep up with the relentless rules of mushroom-hunting.

Seeing Red

One man convinced Canadians that Russia was dangerous, and they’ve believed it ever since.

Instant Classic

After centuries of exclusion from the world of fine wine, the obscurity of Greek grapes is now their selling point.

Next Year in Krakow

Rebuilding Jewish culture in Poland is no easy task after its near-total erasure, and more than anything it takes imagination.