Stories I learned from

PHOTOS (clockwise from top left) A correctional facility in British Columbia (PHOTOGRAPHER Cathie Ferguson). Sarah Bilodeau-Fressange on the silk trapeze for Cirque du Soleil’s Cirque du Monde, which aims to foster the personal and social development of at-risk children and youth (PHOTOGRAPHER Andrée Lanthier). Photo of an iceberg taken in Twillingate, NL, looking back at New World Island where the community struggles with contaminated groundwater (PHOTOGRAPHER Ned Pratt). A smudging ceremony at a retreat of the DUDES Club, a community-based health promotion program largely for Indigenous men in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, BC (PHOTOGRAPHER Jeff Topham). A low-income area of Toronto, Ont, where physicians are prescribing against poverty (PHOTOGRAPHER Laura Bombier). Palliative care patient Esther Moscovitch in Montreal, Que, where family physicians are tackling the environmental effects of hospitals (PHOTOGRAPHER Andrée Lanthier).