Robin Williams: The stigma of suicide and banishing the ‘demons’
Robin Williams’s death came as a surprise—and that’s an indictment of our blindness to depression and its potential consequences
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Anne Kingston
Senior Writer and Columnist Anne Kingston covers contemporary culture—everything from medical politics to the politics of food. She is the author of ’The Meaning of Wife: A Provocative Look at Women and Marriage in the 21st Century’ and ’The Edible Man: Dave Nichol, President’s Choice and the Making of Popular Taste.’ Find her at anne.kingston@macleans.rogers.com.
The war on brunch: new book takes on the controversial meal
Anne Kingston on the latest flap over everyone’s favourite weekend grease-fest
Health Canada’s new Lyme disease plan: You act, we’ll watch
Canada is under pressure to show leadership as Lyme spreads, but its ’action plan’ shows it’s out of touch
A tale of bad luck and big kindness
Book review: Lucky Us, by Amy Bloom
Get ready for Generation Z
They’re smarter than Boomers, and way more ambitious than the Millennials
Cartoonist’s graphic memoir tackles parental old age and death
Review of ’Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant’ by Roz Chast
A full-on CanLit feud
A rare delicious CanLit bun fight, David Gilmour vs. André Alexis is a snapshot of a flawed scene
The juicing boom
With $18 drinks and Big Gulp portions, is juice really the antidote to our toxic, stressed-out lives?
‘I grew up knowing life is an uncertain thing’
Matthew MacDonald was not supposed to live past two years old
‘If we weren’t fearful, we could make change’
Valerie Langer co-founded Friends of Clayoquot Sound in 1979