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It was the type of warm spring day that had brought Roger Oatley to Muskoka for more than two decades: towering green trees, fresh air, and boats with familiar faces [...]

AHMED HUSSEN'S FIRST HOME in Canada was a social-housing unit on Hess Street in Hamilton that he shared with his cousin. He was only 16 years old then, a refugee [...]

Asking price: $2.3M Overview: The historic Golden, B.C., property offers mountain vistas at every turn No one currently lives in Edelweiss Village in Golden, B.C., but don't call it abandoned. [...]

In the spring of 2020, with the global travel sector at a near-standstill, a WestJet maintenance worker in Calgary was performing routine checks on the undercarriage of a Boeing 737 [...]

IT was crazy. We had five games in eight days. I knew of the record, but I didn't know the magnitude. The Heat were No. 1 in the East at [...]

IN MAY 2021, Molly Fleming and her brother Matthew leaped into southern Ontario's pandemic-fuelled real estate frenzy, buying a postwar bungalow in Hamilton they intended to use as an investment [...]

It wasn't always called Kim's Convenience. When the Korean owners purchased the Toronto corner lot in 1987--living in the three-bedroom apartment upstairs while running the store below--it was called Mimi's [...]

For the Broncos and their city, receiving a nation's grief became a sacred duty. Now it's their turn to heal. When Kaleb Dahlgren first had the 'A' stitched to the [...]

The story began with a 20-year-old Manitoban saying he'd fallen asleep at the wheel in a newer model Chevy Silverado, veering off the road and crashing into a few parked [...]

Looking for a piece of real estate in one of the world's most overpriced housing markets for under half a million? Provided the only thing that sleeps there is your [...]

IN BEIJING, SNOWBOARDING STAR LAURIE BLOUIN WILL DRAW ON TWO DECADES OF HARD WORK AND HARD KNOCKS. THAT AND THE LYRICS OF A CERTAIN CANADIAN COUNTRY SINGER. Let's go, girls. [...]

The bright pink and orange walls definitely catch the eye. And, yes, that is a classic bathtub in the corner of the living room. That noise? It could be the [...]

THE OLYMPIC FLAME-LIGHTING ceremony was underway at the Temple of Hera, the oldest temple at Olympia in Greece, as Chemi Lhamo hid nearby, hoping security wouldn't spot her. She listened [...]

A 'supertail' building runs between 300 and 600 metres. New York has a dozen, as does Dubai, but Canada has none. (The CN Tower isn't classified as a building.) That [...]

JAMEEL JANJUA calls them 'future astronauts.' That's partly corporate speak--Virgin Galactic's preferred term for customers who pay upward of US$450,000 for tickets to the edge of space. But coming fromJanjua, [...]

Vancouver has finally put a dent in its long-running bike theft epidemic. All it took was one dedicated officer. When const. Rob Brunt first walked into the Vancouver Police Department's [...]

There's a giant container of hand sanitizer in the front entryway of Sam Maglio's home. It's oversized. It's clunky. It doesn't fit in. 'I want to get rid of that [...]

Guillaume Moreau could barely lift his feet. His knees were in too much pain as he skied across Canada's northernmost island, Ellesmere, amid -30[degrees] C weather while pulling a sled [...]

A COUPLE OF YEARS before the pandemic, Chip Zdarsky had a funny idea for a Comic-Con panel: a PowerPoint presentation about why he should be the next writer for Batman, [...]

When Anne Marie Shea ran for council in a recent by-election in Kinkora, P.E.I., she figured she wasn't the best candidate for the job--at least, not based on the current [...]

Layton Keddy got on his bicycle and disappeared into the Australian wilderness, assuming he wouldn't be missed. He couldn't have been more wrong. Layton Keddy broke his toothbrush in half. [...]

Taru Erikkson had never been to Canada before she travelled to Margo, Sask. (pop. 90), where she had a much-anticipated one-on-one date with a potential future husband. For entertainment, the [...]

IT took a global pandemic for many Canadians to realize their homes are not as spacious or multi-functional as events might demand. The closure of office spaces, gyms and--for a [...]

AS YOU walk by Vancouver's luxury condominium the Arc, look up. Look way up. You might catch a glimpse of Canadian Olympian Emily Overholt, out for a swim in the [...]

Three years ago, Yellowknife resident Reyhan Sarikaya didn't know her city had a municipal flagpole. At least, she'd never noticed it. Then the Turkish consul general in Vancouver visited in [...]

ANDRE DE GRASSE sprinting 2016 Games: Bronze, 100-m; Silver 200-m; Bronze 4 * 100-m We were still training in January and February--and I'm based in Florida. But in March, that's [...]

A row of camping chairs lines a section of the Ottawa Airport Residence Inn parking lot, where Inuit elders watch fellow Nunavummiut walk circles around the empty expanse of asphalt. [...]

The charity invented by an earnest 12-year-old finds itself engulfed in a cynical, star-studded cronyism scandal. How on earth did we get here? AN ADOLESCENT BOY in a blue T-shirt, [...]

On March 16, about 80 employees of Polaris Transportation Group, a trucking company in Mississauga, Ont., packed up their laptops and keyboards to bring home. Some even took their office [...]

The best time to catch a walleye on Katepwa Lake is early in the morning. When the sun gets higher, the northern pike or perch start going after bait in [...]

When Maya Goldenberg started research for her forthcoming book on vaccine hesitancy--the term for delaying or outright refusing to get oneself or one's kids inoculated--she started by looking into measles, [...]

Tracey Ashby spends most of her day on the phone ringing up strangers, and she's seldom calling with good news. Ashby works in case and contact management for the Middlesex-London [...]

It seems pointless to get caught up in nomenclature when it comes to a giant tube that propels fish across a massive rock slide on one of Canada's greatest rivers. [...]

Back in 2014, Gary Kobinger was spearheading a groundbreaking treatment for Ebola. It was a cocktail of three antibodies, known as ZMapp, which showed promising results amid an outbreak of [...]

After all this time, Kavany still knows his way around. Two years ago, when the kangaroo first arrived at the Possumwood Wildlife Recovery and Research Centre, he was struggling with [...]

The chance to contain COVID-19 has passed. What will Canada do when it hits our cities, schools and hospitals? DR. VANESSA ALLEN received a text in late January from the [...]

Australians have watched their homes burn, cursed their prime minister and run for their lives in a crisis that has come to symbolize an impending climate-change disaster. Aaron Hutchins reports [...]

Susannah Stapleton loves a good mystery. Her most recent book, The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime--a biography of an early-1900s [...]

Penny Oleksiak has a big record in her sights this summer. And her teammates might make the difference. Penny Oleksiak says she's still growing. She's not talking metaphorically about her [...]

Twenty-five years ago, older generations were quick to make fun of the inaugural X Games. One Washington Post sports columnist dubbed it the 'Look Ma, No Hands Olympics,' adding that [...]

In September 2008, when thousands of riled-up Republicans filed into the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minn., for the party's national convention, the upcoming election wasn't the only thing [...]

Canada used to pride itself on being the land of ice and snow. Now we have to be nudged to go outside, even when it's not all that cold Despite [...]

There was a fence around the University of New Brunswick's College Field back in 1966. Thomas Pinckard is sure of it. If there hadn't been, he says, the football he [...]

When Kyle Lowry first picked up a prototype for what would become the Toronto Raptors NBA championship ring, he put it on his finger, stared at all the diamonds around [...]

THE ECONOMY AND JOBS DURING THE LAST federal election, the NDP and the Conservatives promised to run four years of balanced budgets. The Liberals promised to run deficits at first [...]

On an icy winter's day last year, Eric Cadesky had a patient who urgently needed to visit Cadesky's family medical practice in Vancouver. The man wasn't ill--he'd fully recovered from [...]

The number of people it would have taken to swing the recent election in Newfoundland and Labrador could fit into a restaurant booth, or the cab of a midsize car. [...]

Dennis Laporte describes his life as 'always having one foot in the bed, one foot in the water.' He was born and raised next to the Detroit River--the Ontario side, [...]

There are no roads in or out of Naujaat. Some residents drive trucks around the Nunavut hamlet, located precisely on the Arctic Circle, but many prefer snowmobiles or ATVs and [...]

Crawford's Used Books doesn't have a website. It's closed from November to April. And it's always shuttered on Sundays. Notionally, the store is open six days a week, a little [...]