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GROWING UP IN THE U.K., Geoffrey James never dreamed he'd live in Canada one day. 'The country wasn't on my radar,' he says. After graduating from Oxford in 1964, he [...]

A settlement agency got me my first job in Canada as a meat clerk. Since then, I've helped other newcomers in Kelowna get on their feet. FROM THE TIME WE [...]

The results are in. For the past 34 years, Maclean's has been collecting and analyzing wide-ranging data on Canada's universities to see how they measure up against one another. In [...]

IN AUGUST of 2023, I visited the Athabasca Glacier, high in the Alberta Rockies, for the fifth time. The experience is never less than profound--a chance to experience one of [...]

PHIL STARTED STARTED BETTING ON SPORTS when he was just 18. Back then, in the mid-'90s, the only legal way to do it was with a pen and a paper [...]

THIS YEAR, ELITE WOMEN'S sports will cross the billion-dollar mark, a 300 per cent revenue jump from 2021. Whether you call it a golden age or a moment of glory, [...]

Thanks to extreme weather, the country's vines (and wineries) have never been more vulnerable. A new, Canadian-made spray could help them survive. WHEN I STARTED MY CHEMISTRY CAREER in the [...]

TIRED OF THE ENDLESS SWIPING and superficiality of dating apps, Canadians are gravitating toward mixers, faceto-face speed-dating events and other interest-based groups in their quests for love. Among them are [...]

MANASIE AKPALIAPIK: INUIT UNIVERSE McCord Stewart Museum, Montreal October 4 to March 9 INUIT ARTIST MANASIE AKPALIAPIK was born and raised on Baffin Island in a family of carvers who [...]

Bombs destroyed my neighbourhood and killed my loved ones. I hope my family and I can find refuge in Quebec. I'VE LIVED IN THE SHADOW of relentless conflict my whole [...]

Several provincial governments now mandate parental consent for kids to change pronouns in schools. Who gets to decide a child's gender? Shawn Rouse and his wife, Amanda, found out they [...]

Wildfire season has become a fact of life in recent years; every summer, wildfires erupt and threaten ecosystems, communities and our health-and now are further accelerated by climate change. The [...]

PHOTOGRAPHER SUSAN LAPIDES, in her four-decade career, has shot subjects as varied as Khmer Rouge survivors, Connecticut tobacco field workers and ox drovers for publications like Time, Forbes and the [...]

PACITA ABAD Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto October 9 to January 19 PACITA ABAD'S ART-WORLD MOMENT has finally arrived: 20 years after her death, the Filipino-American artist debuted at the [...]

In Ontario's hinterlands, a battle is brewing between First Nations, prospectors and the provincial government over a multi-billion-dollar motherlode of metals. Inside the fight for the Ring of Fire. Coleen [...]

Canada is in the midst of the greatest wealth transfer of all time, as some $1 trillion passes from boomers to their millennial kids. How an inheritance-based economy will transform [...]

The world's rapidly growing appetite for clean energy can only be fed by Canadian uranium. But can we responsibly grow the uranium supply in time? We are facing, in Canada [...]

McMaster University is proudly known as Canada's nuclear university. 'With a suite of nuclear facilities and capabilities--including Canada's most powerful research reactor--and aligned research institutes and centres that are unique [...]

When in production, Rook I will have the capacity to account for approximately 23 per cent of the world's uranium production at full capacity. Canada has the natural resources and [...]

Hardly a day goes by without a story about advances in Canada's nuclear energy sector. F ueled in part by a demand for clean energy sources that will help Canada [...]

Canadian uranium is key to unlocking a green nuclear energy future. The big question is how to responsibly extract it? At the Wheeler River Project in Saskatchewan, Denison Mines has [...]

Nuclear energy is clean, safe, and reliable,' says Lisa McBride, Country Leader of GE Hitachi's SMR Canada business. 'It provides a constant, 24/7 energy supply that's not dependent on weather [...]

Canada is facing a national productivity crisis. One counterintuitive solution? Give workers more time off. WHEN I WAS GROWING UP in Roscommon, a community in rural Ireland, my family wasn't [...]

For a long time, I wasn't sure whether I wanted to become a parent. The climate crisis clinched my decision. WHEN I WAS EIGHT years old, playing with Barbies, I [...]

The fifth most common cancer in Canada, bladder cancer strikes more men than women. Being educated and proactive helps ensure positive outcomes. In the fall of 2017, Peter Rich, then [...]

IT'S TEMPTING TO LEAN on numbers when conveying the scale of the damage wrought by July's fire in Jasper, Alberta--the worst in the national park's 117-year history. Water bombers were [...]

Early prostate cancer screening ensures good health outcomes. For men with genetic changes that affect the body's ability to repair DNA, this is especially important. In 2007 Laurent Proulx, then [...]

September is World Alzheimer's Month, a time to raise awareness about dementia, which affects over 55 million people globally and is expected to impact more than 150 million by 2030, [...]

In today's digital age, living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and having access to countless sources of information might seem helpful. However, it can become overwhelming to decipher the accuracy [...]

Colorectal cancer often strikes silently with no obvious symptoms. It's the third most common cancer in men worldwide and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths. However, it's also a [...]

One in eight Canadian men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime, with over 27,000 new cases expected in 2024 . However, the burden of prostate cancer is [...]

I was persecuted in Afghanistan for teaching English. In Toronto, I became the first person in my family to attend university. I ATTENDED A PRIVATE ENGLISH SCHOOL in the Jaghori [...]

COME FROM AWAY Various venues August 18 to December 22 THE MOST SUCCESSFUL Canadian musical of all time, which made Newfoundland slang mainstream, tells the real-life story of 7,000 stranded [...]

On a July morning in 2022, Brad Hynes, the IT manager for the town of St. Mary's in southwestern Ontario, was backing up the town's computer systems when things went [...]

Polyamory is suddenly everywhere--and it's changing the face of love, marriage and even child-rearing. Five intimate stories of non-monogamy. For proof of polyamory's move into the Canadian mainstream, look no [...]

THE BAD NEWS: OWNING A HOME in one of Canada's marquee cities is now largely the purview of millionaires. In Toronto, a typical home goes for nearly $1.1 million, while [...]

AVRIL LAVIGNE The Greatest Hits Tour, various locations Until September 18 AS ONE-TIME TEEN SENSATION Avril Lavigne nears her 40th birthday, she's celebrating rock-star-style with a greatest hits tour. Alongside [...]

Apps have gamified meeting and mating--and affected our social skills for the worse. The real future of dating is offline. IN 2017, AFTER BEING SINGLE for a few years, I [...]

DURING BEVERLEY McLACHLIN'S 28 history-making years on Canada's Supreme Court bench, she ruled on laws that created a quantum forward leap in the state of human rights in Canada--for Indigenous [...]

For both alcohol and cannabis, the health risks involved go up the more you consume. For example, consuming more than six standard drinks per week puts you at increasingly high [...]

In Canada, we have a collective aversion to talking about alcohol and other substances when it comes to our health. It's a curious aversion given that many of us use [...]

Sexy mocktails, zero-alcohol beer and boozeless bars are everywhere. Why it's never been cooler (or easier) to go alcohol-free. It used to be hard to find a decent non-alcoholic drink [...]

Calgary's centrist ex-mayor will have to win over skeptical NDP voters--and take on Danielle Smith--to reclaim Alberta. He's looking forward to it. The moment Naheed Nenshi entered the Alberta NDP [...]

'People blame international students like me for the housing crisis. I'm thinking of leaving.' In late 2022, I moved from New Delhi to Thunder Bay, Ontario, as an international student. [...]

'For years, I knew something was up with my thyroid. In 2010, I started feeling awful: I was cold all the time and super fatigued. My joints hurt, and I [...]

My family switched to private health care in 2019. My husband, Justin, has Type 1 diabetes and has to check his blood sugar multiple times a day. A new device [...]

The battle over one tent village in a portside Vancouver park turned it into the city's only fully legaltent community. What that means for the thousands of Canadians living in [...]

'In June of 2021, brutal pain began ripping through my left hip. I'm not sure what happened--maybe years of pitching my golf swing to that side wore it down. The [...]

'I travelled two hours and got five MRIs done at once. The next day, I finally had answers.' 'In August of 2017, I was driving near Victoria, B.C., with my [...]

'My doctor told me MRIs were moving quickly those days--I'd only have to wait a few months. But that was longer than my EI would last me.' 'About 10 years [...]