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BEARINGS • ‘I see music as fluid architecture’

Sister act • Two women in B.C. show that you can own your dementia—one irreverent TikTok at a time

STRAIGHT TOK • The Kathy Project’s look at life with Alzheimer’s can be moving, or unapologetically funny. A sampling:

The donation drive that became a supply line to Ukraine

Going full circle • An Alberta man is bringing the joy of Montreal bagels to Korea

Shakespeare’s playbook

Rise and fly • Canadians are clamouring to travel somewhere, anywhere, now that pandemic restrictions are lifting. But how do you wake up an airline that’s been asleep for two years?

REAL ESTATE • A whole village of Swiss chalets, nestled in the Rockies

INTERVIEW • ‘There’s a pleasure in order, in trying to make the world more cohesive for ourselves’

WHAT’S ON HER NIGHTSTAND • With her new novel, Sea of Tranquility, out in the world in April, Emily St. John Mandel has a few books queued up to read herself. Here’s what’s on her list:

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The Many Faces of Brigitte Cleroux • She faked her credentials and worked as a nurse, treating hundreds of patients in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia. Why did no one stop her?

DAYS OF DESTRUCTION • When Russia invaded Ukraine, Canadian photographer Philip Cheung travelled to Kyiv to capture the historic moment. His poignant images document what it’s like for Ukrainians to watch their world fall apart.

THE HUNT FOR B.C.’S MOST NOTORIOUS FISHERMAN • Scott Steer made a career flouting Canada’s commercial fishing laws and the officers who enforce them. One dreary night in Vancouver, it all caught up to him.

Distress Call • Canada’s emergency medical services are understaffed and overloaded. Who is checking on the paramedics?

DAVE DEINES • Vancouver

NATALIA MARIJKE BOURDAGES • Brampton, Ontario

PAUL HILLS • Saskatoon

TERRILYN GOOD • North Delta, British Columbia

PATRICK SUTHERS • Kingston, Ontario

NOOR KARFOUL • Charlottetown

THE HARDEST CLIMB • A group of outdoor adventurers are revolutionizing how their sports treat the survivors of tragic accidents

EARTH MOTHER • In her arresting new book, Generation Dread, Britt Wray grapples with the ethics and emotions of bearing new life in a dying world

THE STORY OF US, STARRING US • The film Framing Agnes, a Sundance award winner that screens at Toronto’s Hot Docs festival this month, features a cast of trans actors who take real case files from a 1958 UCLA sociology study and dramatize them as a talk show, with the study’s head researcher, Harold Garfinkel, as its host. Here, director Chase Joynt and historian Jules Gill-Peterson discuss the art of finding community in telling trans stories.

HOW CANADIAN MUSIC BECAME COOL

BEYOND INFINITY • The powerful James Webb telescope is allowing astronomers to time-travel into the universe’s deep, dark past

FOR UKRAINE • My mother survived the assaults of Hitler and Stalin on her homeland and advocated for the people of Ukraine for over 20 years. Today, I carry on her work.

PLAY FOR PAY • As the crypto craze permeates the world of online gaming, playing for fun could become just another bit of nostalgia

THREE TO READ

The urgent need for equitable access to precision oncology for breast cancer • Genomic testing unlocks new options within the oncological care process

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