The Globe's most memorable stories of 2018, as picked by Globe staff
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From a mogul superstar to a couple together until the end, these are our most memorable stories from 2018, as picked by Globe staff.
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George and Shirley met in Halifax in 1944. He was in the Navy, she in the Air Force. Their first date was described as a fairy tale. The couple is one of a few in Canada to receive a doctor-assisted death together, and the first to speak about it publicly https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-medically-assisted-death-allows-couple-married-almost-73-years-to-die/ …pic.twitter.com/Yjs68jttS2
On a cold night in 2013, three people died in a house fire in a small town in Alberta. It soon became clear that it wasn’t an accident. Amid a tangle of odd theories and mounting evidence, disturbing clues led investigators to the killers and a dark truth https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-murder-on-the-prairies-fire-lies-and-a-missing-deer-head/ …pic.twitter.com/lf0scqtfEy
The Globe’s Atlantic bureau chief is married, has two kids and needed to end a pregnancy. This is the best time in history to try to get an abortion in Nova Scotia, but as she discovered, it is basically impossible if you are less than 8 weeks pregnant https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-i-wanted-an-abortion-in-nova-scotia-but-all-around-barriers-still/ …pic.twitter.com/Lbr72WJvIl
Thousands of Uyghurs and other Muslims have been detained in a growing network of indoctrination centres as Beijing pushes to erase centuries of religious tradition. Nathan VanderKlippe reported from China’s Xinjiang region to tell this story https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-inside-chinas-campaign-against-the-uyghurs/ …pic.twitter.com/YDXJ3267HY
Within moments of Eva’s birth, she was placed on her dad’s chest. Her father, business reporter Tim Kiladze, ended up taking 10 months of parental leave and in doing so experienced a chaotic, thankless realm most men never see https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/raising-a-child-is-thankless-work/article37899812/ …pic.twitter.com/Yli4CyxdWz
Dozens of people bore witness to the deadly van attack on Toronto's Yonge Street on April 23. Here’s what brought them to the sidewalk that day. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-tales-from-the-toronto-van-attack-the-minutes-that-forever-link-the/ …pic.twitter.com/iWkZsDfToR
In 2018, Canadian athletes set a record by winning 29 medals at the Olympics in South Korea. One of those medals was won by mogul skier @MikaelKingsbury, who won gold. The Globe’s interactive team took an in-depth look at why he is so good https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/olympics/2018-pyeongchang-winter-olympics-moguls-team-canada-interactive/article37836566/ …pic.twitter.com/NHCuKZKyk2
In March, Western Arts Correspondent Marsha Lederman wrote about how the #MeToo
movement has led to a reckoning in boardrooms. Ms. Lederman speaks to board members across the country and writes that, for them, looking the other way is no longer an option.
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