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May 16, 2026

Great Reads

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

Eamon Mac Mahon/The Globe and Mail

Canada has lost billions of trees, but we can still build the forests of the future

Erin Anderssen

Forests can’t grow back at the rate they’re disappearing due to logging, wildfires and climate change. This is their last stand

Photo illustration by The Globe and Mail/iStockPhoto / Getty Images

Boycotts, cancellations and price hikes: Get ready for a summer of travel chaos

Mariya Postelnyak and Jason Kirby

In nine charts, we explain the turmoil that’s gripping the multibillion-dollar tourism industry, how Canadians are spending – and where

The Globe and Mail

With Italian planes and Canadian VR, this elite flight school trains pilots in the art of combat

Eric Reguly and Photography and video by Fabrizio Troccoli

In Sardinia, Canada’s CAE and Italy’s Leonardo build a model for advanced teaching that they hope to export globally

ILLUSTRATION BY CHLOE CUSHMAN

Lady Justice may be blind, but Canadians shouldn’t shut their eyes to the system’s shortcomings

Bob Paulson

With thousands of charged people free because of delays and the Charter increasingly being used as a cudgel by the defence, Canada’s court system today has lost balance and reason

Andrea Avezzù/La Biennale di Venezia/Supplied

At the Venice Biennale, a clash of politics and art exposes the need for a rethink

Kate Taylor

Throughout protests and mass resignations of the jury, cracks are showing at the prestigious global art exhibition

Adil Boukind/The Globe and Mail