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Rage, hate and harassment are everywhere in the public square. The Star is looking at the causes and costs, and what can be done to stop it. The Taliban in Pakistan wanted Saba Eitizaz dead. It was 2014, and the militants had issued an edict that Eitizaz and fellow ...

As a child, in the 1960s and ’70s, in the midst of the Cold War, David Welch would lie awake in bed at night and worry about a nuclear holocaust.The thought that the next day might bring mushrooms clouds, radiation fallout, soot blocking out the sun, a nuclear winter, ...

A herd of mighty elephants rush, trumpeting down a river, seemingly charging towards a man standing in the middle of the flowing water.But these gentle giants seem delighted, not angry, as they splish-splash their way toward the man, who beckons them with loud calls, hands cupped around his mouth.As ...

What remained after everything, all the lawsuits and the tumbling stock and the government cash, were the bracelets, black and never quite beeping like they should, one last little mystery, still unsolved, right in the heart of it all.It was mid-February 2021, in the brief lull between COVID waves, ...

On a warm Sunday, around midday on Aug. 26, 1979, two Metro Toronto Police officers kicked in the back door to a red brick semi-detached family home in Toronto’s Christie Pits neighbourhood. The bolted door frame of this solid, two-storey home was shattered, giving entry to the kitchen, where ...

Roya Shams ran fast, then faster when she spotted the tiny woman, delicate as a sparrow, in a wheelchair at Pearson airport’s arrivals level.She dropped to her knees and, for the first time in nearly 10 years, fell into her mother’s embrace.“Don’t cry!” Roya said. “It’s all good.”But her ...

New York’s Times Square was calm, and the silence was unsettling. Broadway was dark. There were no tourists. There were no Disney characters lurking optimistically and you couldn’t find a taxi nor a knock-off handbag. It was nearing midnight on Sept. 14, 2001.When I had arrived in the city ...

A lustrous, hot pink rose had recently bloomed in the bush near the Afzaal family home on a calm residential London, Ont. street — a delight Salman Afzaal relished showing off.Afzaal loved the garden he painstakingly nurtured — pansies, lilies, marigolds, hanging baskets. Just this weekend Afzaal and his ...