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March 14, 2026

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

Siegfried Modola/The Globe and Mail

How the ‘Dahiya Doctrine’ rose from the ashes in Lebanon

Mark MacKinnon

Senior International Correspondent

In 2006, in another war with Hezbollah, Israel laid out a military maxim that analysts say is back in force

Illustration by Illustration by Joe McKendry

He’s useful in a crisis – but is he any good at politics? A look at Mark Carney’s first year

Shannon Proudfoot

For the first time, Canada has a Prime Minister figuring out how to be a politician on the job, in front of everyone

Illustration by Marcelle Faucher

Fight at the museum: Sasha Suda and the legal battle at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Kathryn Blaze Baum and Shannon Proudfoot

Canadian Sasha Suda was hired to revitalize Philadelphia’s renowned art museum. Nearly four years later, she is engaged in legal combat with the institution

Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail

Why Canada’s energy superpower status can’t fully protect us from the oil crisis

Jason Kirby, Mark Rendell and Jeffrey Jones

The telltale signs of an energy crisis – supply shocks, rations and hoarding – are here

Dragonfly FRO/Supplied

Meet MOTHRA, the thousand-eyed telescope in search of the cosmic web

Ivan Semeniuk

Science Reporter

A telescope array under construction in Chile aims to find the filaments that tie our universe together