PIECE OF THE WEEK: In the home of Alice Munro, a dark secret lurked. Now, her children want the world to know buff.ly/4cxCnI6 (Toronto Star Deborah Dundas betsy powell)

FROM THE GCL ARCHIVES: When you have to clean up the grisly aftermath, all you can do is laugh. buff.ly/3VVJbZ3 (Hazlitt Anna Maxymiw)

this is the piece that really launched my writing career, thanks to Hazlitt taking the chance on a piece about cleaning up shit (with amazing editing by scaachi and amazing illustrations by vicki nerino). you can read more of these essays in DIRTY WORK!!!!!

FROM THE GCL ARCHIVES: For survivors of a Saskatchewan residential school, healing can’t begin until the harms are fully acknowledged. buff.ly/3upcLb5 (Maisonneuve Magazine Samantha Nock)

The quiet rise and loud populism of one of the country’s most popular politicians buff.ly/3WBxnN6 (The Walrus Annie Hylton)

An oldie but a goodie (from me, for The Narwhal)

FROM THE GCL ARCHIVES: A refugee from Ghana made his way across the world to Canada. His journey has made him famous but at a terrible cost. buff.ly/2ZEUeIE (Tortoise Stephen Marche)

PIECE OF THE WEEK: Two activists gave away untainted heroin, cocaine and meth . They say they saved lives. The federal government says they’re drug traffickers. buff.ly/46rfrbs (Maclean’s Magazine Omar Mouallem)

FROM THE GCL ARCHIVES: Jen Quinlan was just trying to get Roma kids to the dentist. She ended up picking a fight with one of Canada’s richest real estate firms. buff.ly/3ZG4uhn (The Local Magazine Nick Hune-Brown)

PIECE OF THE WEEK: How former child TV star Robby Clark’s crumbling real estate empire has left hundreds of private lenders on the hook buff.ly/3AfN2ch (The Globe and Mail Shane Dingman)

FROM THE GCL ARCHIVES: Irene Cybulsky was a superstar surgeon—the only woman in Canada to head a cardiac surgery division—but her all-male staff resented her. When she was replaced with a man, she found a novel way to seek justice buff.ly/3eemmKJ (Toronto Life Christina Frangou)

📕 I wrote a book! UNDER THE WHITE GAZE combines scholarship, today's headlines, and my gripes with the industry to unpack why people of colour are too often missing or misrepresented in Canadian journalism. Out Sept. 16 with UBC Press's Purich. Preorder: ubcpress.ca/under-the-whit…

FROM THE GCL ARCHIVES: The Curious Case of Gina Adams: A “Pretendian” investigation buff.ly/3x1nlYl (Maclean’s Magazine Michelle Cyca)

PIECE OF THE WEEK: Canada has been slow to end anonymous paternity, but cheap and easy genetic testing makes staying unknown all but impossible buff.ly/3Tk7O1h (Broadview Magazine Alison Motluk (she/her))

Thank you, GCL!

FROM THE GCL ARCHIVES: Sanjay Madan’s job was to distribute pandemic payments to Ontario families. He found an ingenious way to take millions for himself. buff.ly/2TgAvzU (Toronto Life Ethan Lou)

FROM THE GCL ARCHIVES: An extraordinary flood that laid waste to homes and lives—and the idea that we can control nature. buff.ly/3UEi6I9 (Hakai Institute JB MacKinnon)

PIECE OF THE WEEK: Why I ditched the office life to roam the world as a digital nomad, and you should too buff.ly/4cRDTnX (The Globe and Mail Rob Csernyik 🏳️‍🌈)

PIECE OF THE WEEK: For 148 years, the country’s oldest tennis club was an ivy-covered bastion of civility with a roster of like-minded, blue-blooded members. Then chaos erupted buff.ly/3XeTOqq (Toronto Life Sarah Treleaven)

FROM THE GCL ARCHIVES: In Haliburton, Grace the 125-year-old turtle has outlasted bubonic plague, speeding cars and ever-shrinking wetlands buff.ly/3oHe43w (The Narwhal Fatima Syed / @fatimabsyed.bsky.social)