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Claudia Opdenkelder, 41, is the founder and CEO of the dating site cougarlife.com, which she says is approaching three million members worldwide. This spoke with her recently by phone. THIS: [...]

The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) has been waging a campaign for several years against the Centre for International Governance Innovation, the think tank led by RIM-founder Jim Balsillie. [...]

For the past three years urban gardener and author (City Farmer. Adventures in Urban Food Growing) Lorraine Johnson has kept chickens in her Toronto west-end backyard. As Toronto considers ending [...]

Some U.S. media have become rather nasty towards Canada since 9/11. Freelance journalist and communications consultant Chantal Allan, 32, has chronicled examples in her 2009 book, Bomb Canada and Other [...]

The hockey world was shocked this summer when three tough guys (one just retired) died unexpectedly, one from an overdose of alcohol and pills and two others by suicide. When [...]

David Skok, the managing editor of GlobalNews.ca, checked into Harvard University in September to begin a one-year Nieman Fellowship. The 33-year-old is the first Canadian digital journalist to receive the [...]

Chester Brown, 51, is an accomplished graphic novelist whose new book, Paying for/t, depicts his decision in 1999 to abandon romantic relationships in favour of paying prostitutes for sex. Along [...]

Nina Arsenault has spent a fortune changing her appearance from male to female. The 37-year-old used to work in the sex trade, but now supports herself as a playwright, performer, [...]

Sally Rhoads is passionate about surrogacy. The 32-year-old mother of three (ages 12, seven and 10 months) lives near Stratford, Ontario. She has been a successful surrogate once and an [...]

Liz Bader, 34, is one of Canada's top female mixed martial artists (she has also fought under the surname Posener). A single mother of two children, the Maple Ridge, B.C., [...]

He'll soon sport the world's first prosthetic camera-eye. What drives the 'zero-million dollar man'? INTERVIEWED BY PAUL MCLAUGHLIN Toronto-based filmmaker Rob Spence, 38, best known for the 2007 documentary Let's [...]

The recent U.K. election has raised the issue of election reform there, as the Liberal Democratic party has made it a condition for propping up the Conservative government. This spoke [...]

Tracey Sandilands, 49, arrived in Canada from her native South Africa in November 2008. The next day she began her new job: executive director of Pride Toronto. After a bumpy [...]

Calgary Herald reporter Michelle Lang was the first Canadian journalist to die covering the conflict in Afghanistan. She was killed on December 30, 2009. Her death brought to mind the [...]

A majority of the 27 member states of the European Union voted to ban the trade of seal product imports such as pelts, oil, and meat last July. The ban [...]

Marc Emery, Vancouver's famous marijuana activist, has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment in the United States in a negotiated deal relating to his mail-order business that sold marijuana seeds [...]

On June 9, Nova Scotians elected the province's first ever NDP government, lead by former Navy public-information-officer-turned-journalist-turned-lawyer Darrell Dexter. This caught up with the new 52-year-old premier about a month [...]

Canadian architecture student Gordon Craff attracted worldwide interest when he designed SkyFarm, a 59-storey farm for downtown Toronto. This: What inspired you to design a vertical farm? GG: Sometime in [...]

Novelist, journalist, and former anti-nuclear activist Gwyneth Cravens spent 10 years researching and writing Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy. She tells This Magazine why she [...]

When Ken Lewenza became president of the Canadian Auto Workers last September, he had no idea it would soon be begging for government loans--$14 billion in the U.S. and $3.4 [...]

Pop culture has a newfound fascination with BDSM. But what's it really like for Canada's top dominatrix? WHEN THE FILM VERSION of 50 Shades of Grey is released later this [...]

Jeff Barnaby's latest film explores Canada's appalling residential school history. How does the pain affect First Nations today? JEFF BARNABY'S RAW AND POWERFUL FEATURE FILM, Rhymes For Young Ghouls, had [...]

IN 2008, Mark Hopkins, 29, a theatre artist and community builder in Calgary, started hosting We Should Know Each Other parties in his apartment every second Sunday evening. This spoke [...]

DAVID FOGEL, 28, an associate in the Toronto law firm Landy Marr Kats LLP, advertises in York's university newspaper, Excalibur, to help students facing a variety of academic misconduct charges, [...]

JORDAN TANNAHILL HAS ACCOMPLISHED A LOT for a 24-year-old. Ottawa-born, he's an award-wining playwright and director and also the founder of the theatre company Suburban Beast. In September, his play [...]

JULIAN FALCONER, 53, is one of Canada's best-known lawyers. His numerous public cases, many involving human and civil rights issues, particularly in connection with police misconduct, involve clients such as [...]