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Thanks to an enzyme known as carbonic anhydrase, the human body is marvelously adapted to capture and release the carbon dioxide that is a natural byproduct of respiration, digestion and [...]

The 10,000-member Blood Tribe of southern Alberta occupies the largest reserve in Canada. It also happens to be one of the most physically striking: 1,443 sq. kilometres of rolling prairie [...]

David Thompson was born and raised in Westminster, close to the bustling heart of London, but in the spring of 1784, at age fourteen, his life changed forever. He became [...]

The map. William McGillivray, chief director of the North West Company, wanted the map, and he wanted it that spring before he left Montreal for the annual rendezvous at Fort […]

IT WAS A BLUSTERY FALL DAY when John D'Rosa, a mobster in his late 40s, walked into a welfare office near Charles and Jarvis. He told the ministry clerk that […]

The popularity of buffalo meat is discussed. The meat is popular as this is the meat of the future, also it has less fats and at the same time it is lean and organic, than beef.

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 [...]