After Amanda Zhao was reported missing in October 2002, Vancouver Sun reporter Lori Culburt went to Zhao's apartment to interview Zhao's boyfriend, Ang Li. She'll never forget the conversation she had with the seemingly grief-stricken man.

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In 2006, when the RCMP arrested 18 young men who were planning a series of attacks on Canadian soil, it forced Canadians to face the idea of homegrown terrorism. National Post reporter Adrian Humphreys spent years following the stories and transformations of the men who were part of the terror cell.

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When Kevin Mitchell first heard the Humboldt Broncos bus had crashed on its way to a playoff game, he assumed it was a fender bender. But the Saskatoon StarPhoenix sports editor soon realized an unthinkable tragedy was unfolding. He would spend much of the next year in the community, observing the grief and resiliency of those connected to this shattered hockey team.

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Brandon Truaxe built the hugely profitable cosmetics empire Deciem — and then plunged it into chaos. From a psychiatric hospital in England he reached out to National Post reporter Joseph Brean to share his side of the story. 

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One call, then another, then a third. Ottawa Citizen reporter Aedan Helmer vividly remembers what it was like in the newsroom on Sept. 22, 2015 when the police scanner crackled with the news that three bodies had been found in cottage country – and the killer was still on the loose. In the days and months that followed Helmer would come to understand just how tragic — and preventable — the killings were. 

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There had long been stories in Saskatoon’s Indigenous community about police taking Indigenous people out of town and leaving them there in the dead of winter. But it wasn’t until one young man survived the ordeal that it created a public reckoning.

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Nearly 30 years after David Milgaard was wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of Gail Miller the real killer — Larry Fisher — was charged and tried. Then-Saskatoon StarPhoenix reporter Les Perreaux kept tabs on Fisher before he was arrested and covered his trial in the small community of Yorkton.

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As the RCMP prepared to seize millions of dollars worth of cocaine and ecstasy moving across the Canada-U.S. border, they made a curious decision: to bring a journalist inside the fold of the operation.

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Brad Hunter was a reporter with the New York Post when the Twin Towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001. Covering the tragedy and its aftermath did more than define his career — it defined the rest of his life.

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Tim Bosma disappeared in 2013 after leaving home with two men to test drive a truck he was selling online. Police eventually charged Dellen Millard and Mark Smich with murder. Not long after, they discovered this wasn’t Millard’s first time killing. National Post reporter Adrian Humphreys followed the story for years, including interviewing Millard in prison. He reflects on the systemic failures that saw Millard evade justice for years, and how the Bosma family changed his own outlook on life.

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One winter day in 2013, nearly 250 members of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish group called Lev Tahor vanished from the remote town of Saint Agathe, Quebec. As Montreal Gazette reporter Jason Magder investigated, he heard concerning stories: of child abuse, of children taken away from their parents, and of people being sedated with antipsychotic drugs. In many ways, the story of Lev Tahor is one with more questions than answers: How has the group managed to evade the authorities for so long? How can authorities better work together across provincial and state lines to protect the most vulnerable? And, despite a series of criminal convictions, why does the group continue to attract followers?

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