As a complex, surprising and challenging year comes to a close, here’s a snapshot of our most popular stories from throughout 2016.
Explore the links below to see highlights of the passionate, impactful and often policy-changing journalism our readers have been reading, debating and sharing, over the past year.
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[column width=”ten”][intense_spacer height=”20″]These articles topped our charts for their unique role in shaping how our audience think about key subjects – attracting a large volume of readers, who spent a long time absorbing the content and reading other articles along the way:
Angus Reid and the power struggle at Canadian tech darling Vision Critical
Truth and deception: Ghomeshi verdict a good day for justice
Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford remembered as a rare political actor
Dear America: Please don’t vote for Donald Trump
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[column width=”ten”][intense_spacer height=”20″]Our rapidly growing mobile audiences were engrossed in these articles, spending the most time and going on to read so much more on their devices:
The real estate technique fueling Vancouver’s housing market
Trigger warning, Trump fans: This column calls racists ‘racists’
Trump is president. What happens now? A U.S. election morning-after guide
It’s not just hormones: What’s really happening in the minds of teenage girls?
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[column width=”ten”][intense_spacer height=”20″]Our social audience gobbled up these articles, shared and liked them along the way, driving greater reach on these subjects across their networks:
Canadians want Americans to pay more attention to the world: Trudeau
Trudeau was right to refuse Russia’s help with Fort Mac fire
Manitoba First Nation declares state of emergency over suicide epidemic
Four scenarios: Will Ontario’s tuition plan benefit poorer students?
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[column width=”ten”][intense_spacer height=”20″]Google news junkies flocked to these articles on desktop, mobile and tablets:
Bruce Springsteen on struggling with depression, family and Donald Trump
Why Canada’s borrowing binge will end badly
Vancouver’s real estate tax sparks backlash from Chinese buyers
‘Lick your screen’: China’s press, social media fawn over ‘celebrity’ Trudeau
Racist incidents reported in wake of Trump victory
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[column width=”ten”][intense_spacer height=”20″]The introduction of more civilized commenting has attracted a new type of commenter, those who are more thoughtful, civil and still a bit contentious, spawning further, intelligent conversation on these articles:
The radicals have taken over: Academic extremism comes to Canada
Sorry, Vancouver: The rest of Canada needs pipelines
Prime Minister: You failed to do your job by approving pipelines
Donald Trump’s shakedown of the American dream
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