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May 17, 2025

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

Isabella Falsetti/The Globe and Mail

The young Canadians buying ‘boring’ businesses from retiring baby boomers

Meera Raman and Julia Stratton

They may be dull, but stable, well-established businesses that are immune to recession have a lot of appeal to some would-be entrepreneurs

The Globe and Mail

We should turn off GPS – it’s a no-brainer

Alex Hutchinson

Having an omniscient navigational tool in your pocket at all times has changed not just how we find our way around, but how we construct a mental representation of the world around us

Ahmed Zakot/The Globe and Mail

After leaving Gaza, a Pulitzer-winning photographer adjusts to starting anew in Canada with his family

Ahmed Zakot and Christina Frangou

For Ahmed Zakot, ordinary moments in Calgary are mixed with sadness after months of documenting the humanitarian crisis in Gaza

Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail

Canadian hacker feels remorse for role Anonymous members played in rise of Trump

Alexandra Posadzki

Financial and cybercrime reporter

Aubrey Cottle expresses guilt for how his early involvement with Anonymous may have contributed to ‘many of the world’s problems’

Cornell Watson/The Globe and Mail

An honest mess: Is the pressure to deep clean for guests sabotaging our social time?

Zosia Bielski

The drudgery of making home ‘presentable’ keeps people from entertaining and connecting more often. Some say it’s time to reconsider how we host

Illustration by Lorenzo Sainati