Newsmakers: Feb. 17-23, 2011
Putin’s photo-op flop, McCartney’s pot pledge, and Jean-Marie Le Pen gets his due
Charlie Gillis
Charlie Gillis is Maclean’s managing editor (national). He’s a winner of gold and silver National Magazine Awards, and his bosses once forgot about him after sending him to cover the climbing season at Mount Everest.
Is hockey becoming America’s game?
More kids, more rinks, and now, more popular than basketball
Ian Tyson’s affair to remember
Evinia Pulos explains why, after 55 years, they are still inextricably linked
Wallenda will tightrope walk across Niagara Falls after all
’There’s no question the whole world will be watching’
Court: Dodging taxes isn’t ‘natural’
A B.C. couple lose its unlikely fight to make taxes optional
REVIEWS: The Code
Book by G.B. Joyce
The extreme dangers of action sports
High stakes and big bucks lure athletes, who risk injury, and their lives, for sport
Newsmakers: Jan. 12-19, 2012
Facebook goes priggish, Letterman creeps up on Johnny and a Dutch Monarch fights back
Dumping them onto the neighbours’ lot
Eviction of troublesome First Nations community members worries other bands
Badly beaten
A violent robbery—allegedly set up by his ex-girlfriend—deals harsh lessons to a poker whiz