#The Great Airbnb Crackdown – Macleans.ca

#The Great Airbnb Crackdown – Macleans.ca

The historic building at 135 rue du Port included 14 apartments, nine of which were rented as Airbnbs. It burned down last March. (Photo by Simon-Marc Charron via Radio-Canada) As soon as Nathan Sears checked into his Airbnb in March of 2023, he knew something felt wrong. The door to his unit was so flimsy he…

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#The Incel Terrorist – Macleans.ca

#The Incel Terrorist – Macleans.ca

(Photo illustrations by Anna Minzhulina) The morning of February 24, 2020, began like any other at Crown Spa. The first clients of the day began coming and going for sessions, and J.C., the manager, was upstairs in the apartment where she lived. J.C., whose full name is under a publication ban, had managed the spa…

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#Quebec’s New French Revolution – Macleans.ca

#Quebec’s New French Revolution – Macleans.ca

(Photo courtesy of iStock) When François Legault is in downtown Montreal, he doesn’t like what he hears. Quebec’s premier works from an office on Sherbrooke Street, right in the heart of the city, only a few blocks from the mountain that gives Montreal its name and directly across the street from the Roddick Gates, the…

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#Montreal’s Gabriel Diallo is a tennis giant in the making

#Montreal’s Gabriel Diallo is a tennis giant in the making

At 22 (and six-foot-eight), Diallo is a towering presence at the net, drawing comparisons to another Canadian upstart: Milos Raonic (Photography by Richmond Lam) Gabriel Diallo’s pre-teen party trick was to recount, in near-perfect detail, the marathon match between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic that capped off the 2012 Australian Open. He still keeps a…

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#The Canadian doctor who helped invent Ozempic

#The Canadian doctor who helped invent Ozempic

(Photography by Wade Hudson) When it comes to diabetes drugs, there’s just something about Toronto researchers. In 1984, 63 years after Banting and Best isolated insulin, Daniel Drucker, another U of T alumnus, co-discovered glucagon-like peptide-1, or GLP-1, a gut hormone that lowers blood sugar and suppresses appetite. Drucker and Co.’s eureka moment was exciting-ish…

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