Ties that Bind

When their subjects and sources are their friends and neighbours, can the thousands of small-town reporters in Canada tell the whole story?

Most small towns don’t have mass murderers, serial rapists or serious career criminals to worry about. But for whatever reason-be it boredom, foolishness or people’s belief they’ll never get caught on isolated rural highways-many have their drunk drivers. On Friday, May 16, 1997, at a routine checkpoint in Markham, a town just north of Toronto, […]