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May 2, 2026

Great Reads

Welcome to Great Reads, where we share a selection of provocative, inspiring, and delightful stories worth your time this weekend.

Gavin John/The Globe and Mail

Arctic snowmobile trek pits Canadian Rangers’ resolve against a ‘nightmare’ storm

Gavin John

In a show of Canada’s military strength, patrol group braves freezing temperatures and ferocious winds as they begin a journey that will take them across 5,000 km of the harshest terrain on Earth

Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images

The end of the Saudi mirage

Doug Saunders

Vision 2030 was meant to transform Saudi Arabia. But the war in Iran, and a constellation of other question marks, has forced the kingdom to dramatically rethink its future

Jesse Winter/The Globe and Mail

In 2016, the Horse River wildfire tore through Fort McMurray. A decade later, what lessons did we learn?

Jesse Winter

Canada’s costliest natural disaster changed how we think about fire preparedness in an era where wildfires exacerbated by climate change are a growing threat

Photo illustration by The Globe and Mail/iStockPhoto / Getty Images

From banks to car dealers, how companies use NDAs to keep unhappy customers quiet

Erica Alini and Mariya Postelnyak

Jurisdictions are waking up to the widespread practice of businesses demanding silence for compensation

Mark Griffiths/The Globe and Mail

Illustrator Jackie Morris’s birds of wonder take flight

Paul Waldie and Visuals by Mark Griffiths

For her most ambitious work yet, the artist collaborates with author Robert Macfarlane for a field guide to 49 threatened species

Samar Hejazi/Supplied

This Canadian-Palestinian artist is turning heads at this year’s Met Gala