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Photo: Plastimet plastics warehouse fire: warnings that budget-driven govern- ments are sacrificing their capabilities to inspect and protect; After a tumultuous summer, the forests of British Columbia are quiet again. [...]

Over the past few weeks, Jamie McAlpine and his wife, Ann, had several intense and emotional discussions across the kitchen table about the provincewide teachers' strike that gave 2.1 million [...]

If a patient tells his psychiatrist that he intends to harm someone, is the doctor legally obliged to tell the police? Should a woman be allowed to abort her fetus [...]

Chest-deep in water, dragging a canoe behind him, Bernie Gray finally made it home. But everywhere he looked last week, the 63-year-old, semi-retired Win- nipeg businessman found nothing but devastation. [...]

Gen. Jean Boyle looked uncomfortable and sounded tense-and that was perfectly understandable. After all, the 48-year-old Boyle, the most senior officer in the Canadian Forces, was taking an unprecedented gamble [...]

In November, 1971, a drunken Dwayne Archie Johnston and three equally intoxicated accomplices abducted a 19-year-old native girl named Helen Betty Osborne in The Pas, Man., drove her to a [...]

With those words as his cue, the handsome 30-year-old defendant in one of the most horrific murder trials in Canadian history stepped out of the prisoner's box, walked briskly to [...]

By now, the photograph has accrued the significance of an icon. Taken outside her family's home in St. Catharines in July, 1993, it is one of the relatively few photographs [...]

The young man in the prisoner's box is a broad-shouldered figure, his light brown hair closely cropped at the back and sides, his dark suit carefully pressed. At 30, he [...]

Among his friends and neighbors in Wilkie, Sask., 41-year-old Robert Latimer was considered a typical Prairie farmer. Hardworking, clean-living and self-reliant, he would repair his vehicles or replace the barn [...]

To the police who patrolled his Montreal neighborhood after dark, David Levy was known as the kid with the telescope. Occasionally, the officers would stop to chat with Levy as [...]

Modesty is a hallmark of the D-Day veterans interviewed by Maclean's. They tended to downplay the danger and their heroics, perhaps because memories are so hellish and the past 50 [...]

It was a memorable evening for Paul Kariya and his teammates on Canada's Olympic hockey team. The Canadians defeated a touring Russian national team 6-2 on Jan. 8 in Unity, [...]

In September, Maclean's correspondents visited five ridings across the country to test the mood. From rural Nova Scotia to the hillside vistas of Vancouver, voters were angry over high taxes, [...]

He used to run a muffler shop in his home town of Moosomin, Sask. Later he owned an industrial tools franchise, managed hotels and exported cars to the United States. [...]

He is polite, articulate and well-dressed. He has a job at city hall in Toronto and money in the bank. He and his girlfriend share an apartment and a close [...]

On one side of the packed courtroom sat the grief-stricken parents of the two young murder victims. Near the opposite wall sat the family of the accused. Between them, an [...]

It was hockey week in Canada. In the centennial year of the Stanley Cup, the nation's two oldest National Hockey League franchises, representing Canada's two largest cities, squared off against [...]

* In classrooms of the future, teachers and textbooks take a backseat to a revolutionary new technology that lets students experience the sensation of the lesson--holding a molecule, perhaps, or [...]

It was a standard evening's fare on prime-time television. In a mere two hours last week, Canadians could watch a serial killer stalk prostitutes on a Delaware highway--and claim his [...]

In a cold, blustery day in January, 1991, Peter Doig walked home from his office in downtown Halifax, poured himself a drink and began to change his clothes. The 62-year-old [...]

SURROUND SOUND Introduced to Canada by Toronto-based Yamaha Canada Music Ltd. and several other electronics firms, the use of multiple speakers to enhance the sound from videotapes has gradually gained [...]

After three months of soggy weekends, chilly evenings and rained-out barbecues, Canadians in many parts of the country may well remember 1992 as the year that summer never came. For [...]

For Canadians in many parts of the country, the first sunny days of spring mean that it is time to begin wearing lighter, more comfortable clothing, play baseball, plant a [...]

Wilson and Rittenhouse are among the more than one million North American women who have had synthetic devices implanted in their breasts. They also stand at opposite ends of a [...]

A brisk wind was blowing, the temperature stood at 6 ° C and 200 shivering well-wishers stood outside the passenger terminal at Ottawa's Uplands airbase. At 11 p.m., half an [...]

In his 21 seasons as a National Hockey League referee, Bruce Hood came to accept periodic back pain as part of a hazardous occupation that involves dodging pucks and breaking [...]

SHOPPING BINGE For Stephen and Lauree Savoie, who run a bed-and-breakfast operation at their house in Saint John, N.B., the savings are too big to pass up. The Savoies have [...]

WARS ON ICE It was a swift, menacing and dramatic performance featuring two of the world's greatest skaters, the bewitching German Katarina Witt and the handsome American Brian Boitano. She [...]

After working for the past four years on Hydro Quebec's massive James Bay project, Andre Bernard says that he would be reluctant to work in Southern Canada again. Bernard, a [...]

THE RICHES OF SPORT She is only 14 and she has only been playing professional tennis just over a month, but already a clothing company and a racket manufacturer have [...]

A FAMILY STRUGGLE ANALYSTS PREDICTED A BATTLE FOR CONTROL OF HAROLD BALLARD'S MAPLE LEAFS EMPIRE During her weeklong, round-the-clock vigil, she rarely slept, she lost 16 lb. and she hardly [...]

The Ajax-Pickering minor peewee Raiders were working on breakout drills-three slick passes from a defenceman, to a winger and then the centreman, in order to launch an offensive attack. For [...]

When Jim Munro opened his Victoria bookstore in the mid-1960s, new works by Canadian authors usually arrived in small batches, with little or no advance publicity. Munro recalls that he [...]

Danny Homer's calm, detached tone belies the fact that he is talking about the murder that put him behind bars for life. The prisoner, now 38, explains that he was [...]

This time, a Liberal sweep seems unlikely The area known as Lincoln Heights in Waterloo, Ont., is the kind of instantly familiar place that could easily have served as the [...]

The photo display, which commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Red Cross Society, speaks volumes about the proud past of a venerable national institution. Located in the society's downtown [...]

'It's difficult to think about what he did,' says Paul Bernardo's female friend Her voice on the phone is sometimes tremulous and confused, sometimes defiant. 'I have a strong emotional [...]

A legal battle begins over who is responsible for the HIV infections Janet Conners sat in the corridor outside a downtown Toronto courtroom, talking about her late husband, Randy. It [...]

In the end, the protest sputtered out, a victim of high seas and bad weather in the choppy Straits of Florida. The 35 boats and several private planes that set [...]

A court official read the charges, his principal lawyer held a microphone to his lips, and 980 prospective jurors listened closely. In a firm voice that revealed no hint of [...]

Maurizio Bevilacqua looked tired and admitted that he was anxious to see his children, aged 5 and 6, again. The Toronto-area Liberal MP had spent five weeks crossing the country [...]

His wife, Cari, was at work and the house was quiet. Ron MacLean was in the study of his home in Oakville, Ont., one morning last week, and he was [...]

For millions of Canadians it is a familiar scene: men and women stretched out on cots or reclining chairs with a nurse at their side and a tube flowing from [...]

Mike is a 45-year-old welder, his wife, Karen, a 29-year-old receptionist. Based on appearances, they are average middle-class Canadians. They have two kids. They drive a late-model van. They live [...]

Call them Curly and Moe. The names are not their real ones, at their insistence, and they are not entirely appropriate, given the pair's involvement in the murky, sometimes murderous, [...]

On a bright, bitterly cold morning last week, Ronald and Linda Sterling walked out of the Saskatoon Court House accompanied by friends, supporters and their defence lawyers. After the longest [...]

As he peels off his equipment in the crowded, noisy dressing room, 13-year-old Ryan McSkimming of Burlington, Ont., looks like any other young hockey player in the country. He has [...]

In churches across Canada, empty pews are frequently the dismal reality as priests and pastors begin Sunday services. But on a Sunday morning in late March, St. Michael's Cathedral, Toronto's [...]