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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.

The People Speak—and they’re not very happy

Poll Dance : Crisis in Ottawa

Poll dance: Ottawa in crisis

So, how do Canadians feel about the crisis on the Hill? Business leaders, for one, aren’t too happy about it. According to a...

Fast food in lean times

Why do we eat fast food? In a six-month study, researchers put that question to 605 people who frequently do (at least once a...

Microsoft to launch free PC protection

Will people still pay when Microsoft’s product is free?

Should cities seize empty buildings?

This building stood vacant for years, so Toronto expropriated it

Insurance executives gone wild!

AIG snagged billions while its execs hung out by the pool

Catholics flee Liberals in droves

Catholics have always voted Liberal, until recently

A new rival for Chávez: his ex-wife

She wants to be mayor, and she’s not pulling punches

UPDATE: A Canadian HIV vaccine closer than ever

There could soon be an HIV vaccine manufacturing facility on Canadian soil. Today, the University of Western Ontario announced...

Is there anything they can’t do?

In the current issue of Maclean’s , I wrote about a global effort to track all the bacteria that live in the human body—a...