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June 13, 2026

Great Reads

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

Sammy Kogan/The Canadian Press

For head coach Jesse Marsch, it’s Canada first on and off the soccer pitch

Paul Attfield

The American-born former player steering the Canadian men’s team at the World Cup took a long road to get here – and he’s all in

Olga Ivashchenko/The Globe and M/The Globe and Mail

Ukraine’s fight is longer than the First World War, and looks similar in the trenches

Mark MacKinnon and Photography by Olga Ivashchenko

Men are still fighting and dying in muddy holes in the ground more than a century after WWI

Emma Palm/The Globe and Mail

How Saskatchewan’s ‘soft power’ laid the groundwork for Canada to diversify trade

Kate Helmore and Mark Rendell

The province is a commodities powerhouse, exporting high-demand products to the world’s fastest growing economies

The Globe and Mail

A decade after MAID became legal, life has become cheap in Canada

Robyn Urback

Medically assisted dying has helped tens of thousands of Canadians die beautiful deaths, but this country is becoming a place where people are offered death instead of care

Nathan VanderKlippe/The Globe and Mail

How do you keep a small newspaper going in the 21st century? Diversify

Nathan VanderKlippe

International correspondent

The Lewiston Tribune of Idaho is taking advantage of all the things its old presses can do

Illustration by PETE RYAN/The Globe and Mail