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The Globe and Mail
Great Reads

 
 

Welcome to Great Reads, where we share a selection of provocative, inspiring, and delightful stories worth your time this weekend.
 
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Claudette MacLean was frantic with worry. Her son, Avery Dixon, had not responded to text messages for 23 hours, and she knew something was wrong.

 

Mr. Dixon also hadn’t shown up for his shift at the hospital, where he cleaned and delivered meals.

 

Family members and friends began searching for him. Ms. MacLean called the RCMP and kept trying to contact her only child.

 

“If you’re getting my messages, please reply,” she texted him.
 
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Workers in the skilled trades make up a large share of overdoses fatalities, at a time when their labour is needed more than ever
 
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Once discussed as a superstar in the making, Wedding is on FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List with a US$15-million reward attached to his name
 
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Sam Eagan
 
Men are alienated by an implicit understanding that any sign of vulnerability will render them unmanly, and therefore worthless
 
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Samantha Edwards and Photography by Alana Paterson
 
The Vancouver native used to sneak around to score interviews. Now, A-listers seek him out
 
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