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Kate Lunau

Kate Lunau is a health and science writer at Maclean’s Magazine, who previously reported for the Montreal Gazette. She’s the recipient of several journalism awards, including the 2014 Yves Fortier Earth Science Journalism Award, and has been nominated for two National Magazine Awards. Like Elon Musk, she hopes to retire on Mars.

Insurance for Paris fare fraudsters

Money paid into a pot covers the fines for cheating the Paris subway

A sweeter sound

How good can laptops and MP3s get? Digital music gets a rethink.

A whale of an idea

How to fight whaling by Japan, Iceland and Norway? Legalize it.

Saying ’nein’ to Austria’s far right

Presidential candidate Rosenkranz got 15 per cent

All the right moves

The key to success is surprisingly simple: make workouts short, intense, social and ’mindless’

Working ourselves sick

The consequences of non-stop job stress include depression, weight gain and heart disease

Ilona Koroleva 1969-2010

Raised in the Soviet Union, she came to Canada in 2002. She especially loved to walk her dog, Pont.

A Bedrock of the vitamin industry

After 50 years, the Flintstones’ greatest success is the vitamins

It’s pirate season on the high seas

The rate of pirate activity in March was double that of last fall

Plugging in the car of the future

As batteries improve, plug-in cars are finally hitting Canadian roads