#The Unsteady Reign of Danielle Smith

#The Unsteady Reign of Danielle Smith

On a sunny Saturday morning this past April, one month before Alberta’s provincial election, about 200 boisterous supporters of the governing United Conservative Party descended on a parking lot in suburban Calgary. The throng—seniors, families, bearded guys in cowboy hats, bearded guys in UCP-blue turbans—were there for a campaign-launch rally, steeling themselves for a long…

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#They lost their kids to Fortnite

#They lost their kids to Fortnite

Cody was seven years old when he decided what he wanted to do with his life. It was the summer of 2018, and he was watching the World Cup with his parents and younger brother at home on Vancouver Island. When he grew up, he told them, he wanted to play pro soccer. Plenty of…

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#The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth

#The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth

At 12 years old, Ashley Wadsworth didn’t yet have a smartphone. She didn’t need one, figured her mother, with a close-knit community of family and friends in Vernon, a small city in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley. But she did use the family laptop to see what her friends were posting to social media. Among her…

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