This week, we’re sharing stories from Annie Hylton, Justin Ling, Jonathan Tjarks, Nicole Shawn Junior, and Lauren Hough.
Maclean’s
We Gave Them Our Leftover Frozen Embryos. Now, We’re a Family.
“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.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Jennifer Senior, Aaron Hutchins, Molly Ball, Diana Hubbell, and Vauhini Vara.
Alzheimer’s Before Forty
“Shawn says Jo asked him to promise he would never let him go into a nursing home, that he would help him find some way to end his life on his own terms.”
Risking Everything for a Better Life
Migrants looking for greater opportunity, safety, and freedom sometimes stow away in the wheel wells of jetliners in a bid to escape.
Into the Mouth of Madness and Out Again, Alive
“The pool drill, the rock drill, the sedation drill. Everything is done. Everything but the thing that’s never been done.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Shannon Gormley, Jasmine Sanders, Esmé Weijun Wang, Kevin T. Baker, and Gabrielle Bellot.
In Canada, Truth and Reconciliation Starts with Educating Ourselves and Our Kids
Canadians need to learn the truth — the individual stories of those who attended Residential Schools — before we can ever begin the reconciliation process.
On Happiness: A Reading List
A reading list on happiness to celebrate March 20—or International Day of Happiness.
Refugees Welcome Here: Bringing ‘Family No. 417’ to Canada
Michael Friscolanti reports on the 14 everyday Canadians who — galvanized by the sickening image of three-year-old Alan Kurdi face-down on the beach — banded together to sponsor a family of Syrian refugees whose names they did not know, in a bid to “do what’s right. To do something.”