Hush, please . . . it’s a rock show
A recent concert had a ground-breaking rule for the audience: no talking
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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.
The legacy and lunacy of Toronto’s notorious mayor
From 2016: He worked hard, and voters understood he’d been bruised by life — just like them
Survival of the prettiest: The mysterious power of attractive people
From picking mates to choosing politicians, new research says society’s bias toward attractiveness has ugly results
The greatest hockey player ever
A book about field-hockey legend Balbir Singh Sr. sets the record straight
Young Guns are the team to watch
At the World Cup of Hockey nationalism will share airspace with inter-generational rivalry—a drama we’ve been watching play out in the NHL
Could Canada’s hockey teams be any worse? Nope.
Canada supplies the NHL nearly half of its players, and a ton of revenue. But it may not qualify a team for the playoffs.
Scott Chantler marks a Canadian first for cartoonists
The University of Windsor appoints a top-notch cartoonist to the post of writer-in-residence
Will the Rio Olympics be a springboard for Zika?
The pandemic raises questions about the health impacts of sporting mega-events
Q&A: Dave Cobb, country music’s saviour
Cobb talks about coming to Nashville—and letting fresh air into the studio
The Nashville insurgency: Inside country’s revolution
Meet the new breed of indie country outlaws who are rescuing the genre from a plague of tailgates and halter tops