Cheap Seats: 39 Hours on the Greyhound – With a Toddler

Three summers ago, I took the Greyhound from Vancouver to a family gathering in Winnipeg with my two-year-old son. When I mentioned to friends that I was taking the bus, they were surprised. With a toddler? Was it safe? Did the passengers stink? The choice wasn’t difficult. My partner and I didn’t own a car. […]

‘God Knows What Canada Is’: What It’s Really Like to Be a Refugee

After the election of the Trudeau Liberals, Canada swiftly rebranded itself as a tolerant, open-armed society. But as alt-right sentiments seep across the border, how welcoming is the country? Omar Mouallem meets the refugees facing racism, xenophobia and the very idea of Canadianness

An outpost of McDonald's at a Walmart. Photograph: Rusty Clark/Flickr

Walmart in Whitehorse: searching for culture in a consumerist paradise

Our writer hits the aisles in Canada’s storied frontier city

Pantry in the permafrost: Inside the arctic doomsday vault

Thousands of seeds are locked in a frozen mountain in Norway to protect our global food supply. Should we be worried? Our writer bundles to visit the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Born to run: meet Ed Whitlock, the octogenarian marathon man

He doesn’t have a ‘workout regime’ or a special diet, he just hits the ground running. So how has Whitlock become one of the finest athletes of the last thirty years?

Trump in Technicolor

Washington never saw the Donald Trump presidency coming – but Hollywood did

Life near the red zone: the scars of the Lac-Mégantic oil disaster

In July 2013, a runaway train ploughed through this small town east of Montreal and exploded, killing 47. Photographer Michel Huneault visited more than a dozen times over a year to tell the stories of survivors. This is what he found