Search

Most successful entrepreneurs have an 'a-ha' moment to tell. Bernadette Butler has a 'holy crap!' moment instead. Butler, a former advertising executive at Bell, founded her Vancouver-based startup StoryTap in [...]

How have Syrian refugees fared since 2015? It hasn't been easy, but early fears were misplaced. The life of a refugee can be many things--dangerous, wearying, heart-rending, boring, nerve-racking, expensive [...]

Mountsberg, Ont., was once a village with a future. In the early 1900s, it boasted a general store, a blacksmith, a post office, a steam sawmill, two churches, a public [...]

Seniors today are among the richest, most comfortable people in the country. Why should they all get discounts? WHILE TRAVELLING IN Hungary this past summer with his wife, Ernst Friedel [...]

Along with the rest of the country, you probably fell in love with hitchBOT, the world's first hitchhiking robot, back in the summer of 2014. The brainchild of academics David [...]

Like every other public transit system, Innisfil Transit has a fancy logo, flat-rate fares and plenty of folks who use it to get around town. What it doesn't have, however, [...]

When Ben Blatt succumbed to Pottermania, he was in Grade 3, and the third book--1999's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban--had just come out. 'At that age, I considered [...]

Cities across the country are trying to rein in cat populations. Good luck with that. 'Most cats don't want to be spotted, so it can be really difficult to count [...]

BOLSHOI CONFIDENTIAL Simon Morrison Can you tell the story of a country through dance? Certainly. Like other art forms, dance offers great opportunity for both narrative and emotional expression. But [...]

LIFE SENTENCE Christie Blatchford Blatchford's book is a cri d'amour in reverse. Through a series of meandering rants woven out of the many cases she's covered during nearly 40 years [...]

As with city hall and true love, you can't fight chemistry. And that's bad news for the cement business. Cement--the ubiquitous binding agent that makes possible the concrete buildings, roads, [...]

TWO HUNDRED YEARS ago this week, on June 1, 1812, United States president James Madison delivered a stirring war message to U.S. Congress. 'Such is the spectacle of injuries and [...]

SEVEN YEARS AGO, former prime minister Stephen Harper announced he was dragging Canada's retirement system into the future. At the January 2012 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Harper noted [...]

When Pita Aatami was growing up in Fort Chimo, now called Kuujjuaq, in northern Quebec in the 1960s, he would walk with his family to a local lake to go [...]

ONE SIMPLE IDEA: HOW POSITIVE THINKING RESHAPED MODERN LIFE Mitch Horowitz Everyone agrees a positive outlook on life is a good thing. But why? 'Positive thinking forms the keynote of [...]

If you remember drive-in burger joints, you'll remember the tune: an infectiously plump tuba beat that put the bounce into A&W's roly-poly Great Root Bear mascot as he ambled down [...]

IT'S A TEXTBOOK case in how to annoy students. This year, OCAD University in Toronto required students in its first-year visual culture course to purchase a 'custom reader,' comprised of [...]

AN AMERICAN VICTORY over Canada in the War of 1812 should have been dead simple. Besides a huge advantage in manpower and resources, the United States Army also enjoyed the [...]

PARENTING OUT OF CONTROL: ANXIOUS PARENTS IN UNCERTAIN TIMES Margaret K. Nelson Can you blame it all on baby monitors? That's one explanation for the modern-day phenomenon of helicopter parenting. [...]

THE FIRST STAMPEDE OF FLORES LADUE: THE TRUE LOVE STORY OF FLORENCE AND GUY WEADICK AND THE BEGINNING OF THE CALGARY STAMPEDE Wendy Bryden 'It's the broncs and the blood. [...]

IS EATING PEOPLE WRONG? Allan C. Hutchinson A law degree will take three years of your life and a big chunk out of your bank account. This book promises to [...]

STAYIN' ALIVE: HOW CANADIAN BABY BOOMERS WILL WORK, PLAY, AND FIND MEANING IN THE SECOND HALF OF THEIR ADULT LIVES Michael Adams They've dominated social discourse and public policy throughout [...]

CARLOS HERNANDEZ understands the restaurant business. The retirement business, on the other hand, is a bit of a mystery. After a career spent working in other people's kitchens, Hernandez, a [...]

PROOFINESS: THE DARK ARTS OF MATHEMATICAL DECEPTION Charles Seife Seventy-eight per cent of all statistics are made up on the spot. And if you believe that, you need to read [...]

GOLD DIGGERS: STRIKING IT RICH IN THE KLONDIKE Charlotte Gray Like the Klondike's gold-laden streams, historians have been picking over the glory days of Dawson City, Yukon, for more than [...]

STRUGGLING TO DECIPHER a Shakespeare play has been a long-standing rite of passage for students in high school. Today that chore has been eased somewhat. Rather than plod through the [...]

EATING WITH THE ENEMY: HOW I WAGED PEACE WITH NORTH KOREA FROM MY BBQ SHACK IN HACKENSACK Robert Egan and Kurt Pitzer Books don't, as a rule, come with guarantees. [...]

GENGHIS KHAN: THE MAN WHO CONQUERED THE WORLD Frank McLynn Would-be world conquerors can learn a lot from Genghis Khan. No one in history has ruled over as large a [...]

THE FULL CATASTROPHE: TRAVELS AMONG THE NEW GREEK RUINS James Angelos In the land of the blind, a one-eyed man may be king. But a two-eyed journalist can prove more [...]

EINSTEIN'S DICE AND SCHRODINGER'S CAT: HOW TWO GREAT MINDS BATTLED QUANTUM RANDOMNESS TO CREATE A UNIFIED THEORY OF PHYSICS Paul Halpern Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrodinger had much in common. [...]

WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?: THE EPIC SAGA OF THE BIRD THAT POWERS CIVILIZATION Andrew Lawler Yet more depressing news 1 that early risers truly do have more […]

For all the erudition and scholarship that goes on at Canadian campuses, ambition is what really drives most colleges and universities. Colleges want to be small universities. Small universities want [...]

In the early 1990s, Baltimore, Md., was among the most blighted of America's blighted downtowns. Its poverty rate was twice the national average. Drugs, crime and decay abounded. Its own [...]

The unemployment rate for men with no necks and implacable stares might soon be on the rise. Once the occupation of choice for beefy football players and shady bike-gang members, [...]

WILD IDEA: BUFFALO & FAMILY IN A DIFFICULT LAND Dan O'Brien The creation myth of the Lakota Sioux doesn't involve a Garden of Eden, warring Greek gods or a Big […]

THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA: THE MAKING OF DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Mark Perry He has returned again. And this time he wants his reputation back. 'History has not treated MacArthur [...]

DR. JOHN SCHAMAN runs a cardiac rehabilitation clinic at the Ontario Aerobics Centre in Breslau, Ont., putting heart patients through supervised exercise programs to rebuild their cardiovascular capacity following heart [...]

PEPPER: A HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S MOST INFLUENTIAL SPICE Marjorie Shaffer Here's another thing you can blame on Christopher Columbus. Not only did the explorer bring colonialism to the Americas [...]

MATH ON TRIAL: HOW NUMBERS GET USED AND ABUSED IN THE COURTROOM Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez Was it a successful purse-snatching or an abomination of math? In 1964 Los [...]

FEW PUBLIC POLICY issues are as fraught with competing interests and short fuses as that of elderly drivers. The ability to drive is an important part of independence for most [...]

WITH CHARITY FOR ALL: WHY CHARITIES ARE FAILING AND A BETTER WAY TO GIVE Ken Stern Canadians give $8.5 billion a year to charities in support of many worthy causes. [...]

ELIHU WASHBURNE: THE DIARY AND LETTERS OF AMERICA'S MINISTER TO FRANCE DURING THE SIEGE AND COMMUNE OF PARIS Michael Hill The link between the First and Second World Wars is [...]

THE AMISTAD REBELLION: AN ATLANTIC ODYSSEY OF SLAVERY AND FREEDOM Marcus Rediker The 1839 rebellion on board La Amistad has waxed and waned in the public consciousness. This shipload of [...]

THE BLOOD OF FREE MEN: THE LIBERATION OF PARIS, 1944 Michael Neiberg While Hitler's Germany laid waste to much of Europe during his short but murderous reign, the Continent's two [...]

TIME WARPED Claudia Hammond If you were told Wednesday's meeting had been moved forward two days, when would you expect it? Some will say Monday. Others Friday. How you answer [...]

WAR IS HELL, of course. But the War of 1812 also happens to be perfect. At least from Ottawa's perspective. Consider the federal government's recent video promoting the war's bicentennial. [...]

CHINA AIRBORNE James Fallows Figuring out China's future path can seem like a complicated puzzle. How to simplify things into one lean and readable argument? Go flying. China dominates the [...]