Behind the scenes

For almost two years, residents of a small town outside Winnipeg saw Ruth Bennett follow the same routine.

At 8:47 on a freezing February morning, seventy-eight-year-old Raymond Caron walked into a grocery store

Every room Karen cleaned in the downtown Toronto hotel told her something about the people who had slept there.

Thomas Reed had heard those two words hundreds of times. “I’m fine.” His mother said them after his father died.

  The first laugh came from behind Sophie. — Hey, isn’t that your dad? She turned. The children

The first warning came before everyone had even sat down. “Melissa, sweetheart,” my mother-in-law said

The maternity room smelled faintly of coffee, baby powder and the flowers someone’s husband had brought

When Susan’s eldest son announced that he was moving in with a woman he had met online, her first feeling

For almost a decade, Natalie Hayes believed the best part of her divorce was never having to see her

The morning I became officially divorced, I celebrated with pancakes. Not homemade pancakes. I wasn’