Family Vocation
Increasingly, Canadian households are eschewing corporate charities in favour of launching their own grassroots organizations. Inside the complex world of doing good, family-style.
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Reader's Digest Names Canada's Most Interesting Towns
The wait is over, and we’re pleased to announce the winners of Canada’s Most Interesting Towns contest.
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Justin: The Second Coming of Trudeau
He’s the son of a political giant and the new hope for the beleaguered Liberal party. But who is Justin Trudeau?
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Video: Justin Trudeau boxing Reader's Digest Canada journalist Philip Preville
While shadowing Liberal Party leadership contender Justin Trudeau for our April cover story, Philip Preville went toe-to-toe with him in the ring.
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Cops and Hackers
Cybervigilantes and hackers argue that 21st-century crimes are happening in a universe where traditional law-enforcement methods are obsolete. How the digital age is forcing police to step up their game.
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Rise of the Robots: Machines Custom-Made to Care for You
The next generation of robots is poised to acquire the very thing that makes us human: our empathy.
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The $273 Billion Question: Enbridge and the Northern Gateway Controversy
The Harper government wants to supercharge the Canadian economy by allowing over 200 tankers a year through the waters off British Columbia. Detractors of the so-called Northern Gateway insist a single oil spill is all it would take to destroy one of the world’s most diverse natural environments. Is the payoff worth the risk?
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The Blissologist: A Yoga Guru's Revolutionary Approach to Wellness
Yoga star Eoin Finn believes he’s found a way to be the happiest, fittest Canadian. Now he wants to convince the rest of us.
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Life Twice Given: An Unlikely Sacrifice
At 16 weeks, Logan Hampson fell mysteriously ill. Four years later, his baby sister, Alyson, developed the same symptoms. Discover the true story of what a mother and father sacrificed for their children.
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Staying Alive: The Breakthrough that Lets Vegetative Patients Communicate With Us
As doctors fight for the final say, the latest neuroscience is redrawing the boundaries of life and death while revealing a scary truth—that maybe we shouldn't be so quick to pull the plug.
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Resurrection: The Catholic Church's New Era of Openness
After decades of child abuse scandals, a new generation of Catholic leaders has vowed to turn things around. Meet the new church of zero tolerance.
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Clean Freak: Is our Fear of Bacteria Making us Sick?
We disinfect, we sterilize, we pasteurize. We've made bacteria Enemy No. 1, but playing it safe might be what's making us sick.
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The Sick Reality of Canadian Health Care
What does it take to get a clean bill of health in our two-tiered health-care system? Luc Bouchard found out first-hand why being a "patient" patient could be a life-threatening decision.
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True Stories: Saved by the Belle
When a college student smashed his head on a mountain rock in the middle of the wilderness, his chances of surviving were low. To save him, his girlfriend did the impossible.
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Justice Delayed: The Exoneration of Joseph Salvati
Falsely implicated in a 1965 murder, Joseph Salvati spent 30 years in prison after being sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. He was innocent - and the FBI knew it all along.
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