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Sean O'Hare is a little nervous as he stares through the windows of the Fort Simpson Curling Club at the action on the ice below. It is clear that he [...]

It is only 8:15 a.m. on a sunny June morning, but already the lineup for the Paul Bernardo trial is snaking its way around the Toronto courthouse. About half of [...]

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 [...]

Nine years ago, Brian Mulroney swept to power on a promise of 'jobs, jobs, jobs.' The issue appears to be just as potent in this year's election, although voters in [...]

On the evening of Nov. 3, 1992, a raucous crowd of American expatriates crowded around a flickering television set in a smoky, upstairs room at the King's Road Pub in [...]

Helmut Schlesinger may hesitate before he tries to help Germany's neighbors again. Until last week, the dour 68-year-old economist, who has been president of Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank, since [...]

Paul Davidson is the sort of businessman that Canadian union leaders love to hate. Davidson, 46, is president of Tridon Ltd., a 68-year-old Burlington, Ont.-based automotive-parts maker that is shifting [...]

GETTING THE GST OF IT THE TAX IS SUPPOSED TO BE VISIBLE, BUT BOTH BUSINESS AND CONSUMERS ARE CONFUSED There is a new routine at the Olympic Athletic Club in [...]

THE FACE OF HUNGER Vicki Adam owned two fur coats and many other trappings of prosperity until her stockbroker husband suffered three strokes that left him crippled and barely able [...]

For a small eight-page 'magazine,' the quality is remarkably high. With lavish color photographs reproduced on thick, glossy paper, the articles are a cat lover's delight, covering such topics as [...]

Fashion designer Alfred Sung was having a little trouble breathing. In addition to suffering from hay fever, he has recently developed an allergy to his beloved dog, DeDe. But ra [...]

They are soldiers, men and women, prepared for war and trained to kill, but their enviable reputation rests on 45 years of peacekeeping, not fighting. Yet for some time now, [...]

For many American beer drinkers, the beverage in the slim, green bottles with the majestic moose on the label is a familiar--and popular--product. Since Moosehead Breweries Ltd. of Saint John, [...]

Just before 9 a.m. on Jan. 21, Statistics Canada in Ottawa formally declared that the economic recession was over. But neither that pronouncement nor any real economic recovery came soon [...]

Students working on projects at the W. Ross Macdonald School, an institution for blind and visually impaired elementary and high school students in Brantford, Ont., have frequently been frustrated by [...]

The main color scheme of the Darlington nuclear generating station provides an indication of its history: it is painted battleship grey. And indeed, the Ontario Hydro station has been a [...]

Fred Abramovitch learned some brutal lessons during his brief career as a Canadian clothing magnate. In 1985, Abramovitch, a former financial adviser to Montreal billionaires Charles and Edgar Bronfman, gained [...]

In his office on the outskirts of Dallas, Russel McDonald is waiting eagerly for the proposed North American free trade agreement to become reality. McDonald, 40, is a regional sales [...]

THE JAPANESE ARE POISED TO CHALLENGE THE TRADITIONAL MANUFACTURERS OF LUXURY CARS As the owner of a successful Toyota car dealership in Lachine, Que., Noel Spinelli is accustomed to following [...]

A DOGFIGHT FOR SURVIVAL AIR CANADA AND CANADIAN AIRLINES ARE STRUGGLING TO FLY HIGHER IN MORE COMPETITIVE SKIES Victor Pappalardo, the 47-year-old president and owner of the troubled Toronto-based City [...]

SLOWDOWN IN LUXURY LAND AFFLUENT CONSUMERS ARE TIGHTENING THEIR BELTS AS THEY DEAL WITH A SLOWING ECONOMY Judy Cosman, 35, is a successful Toronto executive who says that, a short [...]

THE VAULT IS EMPTY As 63-year-old pensioner Yelena Averenov spent hours lined up in front of a state-run Moscow butcher store, waiting for a rapidly dwindling supply of sausages, her [...]

IN MANY OF CANADA'S SMALL TOWNS, a traditional way of life is disappearing. For residents determined to stay on, it can be an uphill battle. For the most part, mainstream [...]

JODY ALLAIR remembers the very moment he decided to become a bird biologist. At 15, the Peterborough, Ont., native was already interested in wildlife when he volunteered at the Long [...]

THE SUTTON PLACE HOTEL in downtown Toronto is like many swanky big city hotels. A liveried doorman ushers visitors into a quietly luxurious lobby, where plush wool carpets soften the [...]

FIRST CAME SNOW, then winds up to 75 km/h and near-zero temperatures, and when it was all over, then the storm really hit. Early last week, the first snowstorm of [...]

IT WAS ONE of those times when you pray the weatherman is wrong. In August, when Hurricane Charley slammed into Florida, killing 27 and causing an estimated $9 billion in [...]

In August, novelist Joy Kogawa decided on a whim to visit the Vancouver neighbourhood where she lived for the first seven years of her life. She hadn't been back since [...]

I'D HAD my suspicions for a while, but that sunny June day in HMV is when I knew for sure. At first, I thought the cashier had a peculiar look [...]

EDNA STAEBLER, Canada's internationally acclaimed cookbook author, shows off her well-thumbed wall calendar. Most days' white squares are filled with her notes, indicating appointments or that visitors are expected. It's [...]

WHEN MY DOCTOR suggested in August 2000, for the second or third year in a row, that I lose a few pounds, I blurted out, 'How can I when I'm [...]

THE ROOTS of Don Chapman's family tree reach far back into Canadian history. One ancestor, Dr. Alex Macdonald, a Scot who settled in Antigonish, N.S., in 1812, co-founded the province's [...]

THE MEN IN OVERALLS shovelling black goo may have looked like a road crew paving a new highway, but their efforts along Spain's wild Galician coast were of a far [...]

FOR MANY PEOPLE, where and how they live is code for so much more. Say, for example, you live alone -- or in the precise language of the statistician, you [...]

For nearly 120 years, Brantford, Ont., has been proud to trumpet poet Pauline Johnson as its own. One of its seven high schools is named after her, and for many [...]

FOR SEVERAL frantic days, thousands of emergency workers and volunteers piled up sandbags in hopes of protecting Prague from the rising waters of the rain-swollen River Vltava. In addition to [...]

PESTICIDES -- whether insecticide, herbicide or fungicide -- vary in their effectiveness at killing their specific targets. But one property the chemicals share is their ability to trigger strong emotions. [...]

AT 6-FOOT-6 and with size 17 feet, Ian Thorpe would stand out anywhere. Add to that formidable physique great natural talent and a penchant for hard work, and it's no [...]

The women's and men's curling teams have a lot to live up to -- and live down. The pressure starts with the notion that Canadians should do well; after all, [...]

For seven-year-old Jenna, a school trip to the Children's International Learning Centre in Hamilton was more like stepping into a fairy tale. A giant, red, papier-meche Chinese dragon with large [...]

Viewed from the silky white sands of Ipperwash Beach, Lake Huron seems as vast as an ocean -- only there's no tang of salt in the air. Even though it's [...]

Amidst all the foofaraw of the Toronto 2008 Olympic bid, organizers of another, potentially even larger international gathering have been quietly going about their business. A year from now, Toronto [...]

After eight months and 107 witnesses, the inquiry into last year's tainted-water scandal in Walkerton, Ont., finally reached its anticipated climax -- or more like its anti-climax. In his testimony [...]

Dr. Lance Levy is not in the business of shame and blame. Since setting up his Toronto practice in 1985, he has helped hundreds of obese patients shed, and keep [...]

By the work, so the saying goes, one knows the worker -- so why not start with some really cool tools? Not that you need to splurge $865 on stainless [...]

The election was fought bitterly, not only on the national stage, but at the grassroots level. Over the course of the five-week campaign, Maclean's sampled voter opinion on key issues [...]

What is your reaction to negative or attack ads? Early in the Nov. 27 election campaign, Prime Minister Jean Chretien recalled that his mother once told him: 'When you throw [...]