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January 31, 2026

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

HANNAH KIVIRANTA/The Globe and Mail

How will cheaper versions of Ozempic tip the scales?

Kelly Grant

Health reporter

As Canada prepares for generic weight-loss drugs, the benefits for metabolic diseases come with weightier expectations that we should all be skinny

Illustration by Kathleen Fu

Canada’s 100 Most Livable Cities

Mahima Singh and Chen Wang

Explore our third data-driven ranking of the most desirable places to live in the country

David Jackson/The Globe and Mail

Opioid deaths have declined sharply in Canada. These five factors help explain why

Colin Freeze and Andrea Woo

Overdoses, driven to new heights in the 2010s, are not killing as many Canadians as they did a few years ago. Health officials aren’t yet sure whether that’s cause for celebration

Illustration by Matthew Billington; Source Images: Kingsbury: Sean Kilpatrick/LA PRESSE CANADIENNE; McMorris: Maja Hitij/Getty Images; Crawford: Alexis Boichard/Agence Zoom/Getty Images; Blondin: Sergei Belski/Imagn Images; Dudek: PAUL MILLER/AFP/Getty Images; McDavid: Maddie Meyer/Getty Images; Mountain: Maja Hitij/Getty Images; Team Canada: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images; Rings: Claudia Greco/REUTERS; McMorris: Jonathan Hayward/CP

Team Canada sizes up the Winter Olympics

Rachel Brady

As they prepare to unite the country, Canadian athletes look at potential victories and the challenges to come

The Globe and Mail

As a family doctor, the nearly extinct house call is still a meaningful part of my job

Nicholas Pimlott

Here’s why the declining tradition is worth saving