The acrimony and enigma of Arvind Gupta’s exit from UBC
How the sudden resignation of UBC’s president has widened into an ugly faculty revolt and PR disaster
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Ken MacQueen
Ken MacQueen is Vancouver bureau chief for Maclean’s, and a reformed Ottawa Parliamentary reporter and columnist. He prefers B.C., where stories hang fat and juicy from the trees, waiting to be shared. He’s also covered the highs and lows of the royal family, and eight Olympic Games.
Harper’s pot stance versus science
A new report counters many of the PM’s campaign trail claims about marijuana policy
Saskatchewan’s HIV epidemic
Third World levels of HIV infection rates in one of the world’s wealthiest countries are ’a national disgrace’
The science is in. And Insite works.
Top researchers gather to learn how Vancouver’s safe injection site has made B.C. a medical world-beater—and a political pariah
The plane that could help save B.C. from forest fires
Meet the Martin Mars water bomber: A Second World War-era vintage craft that costs $10,000 per hour to fly, and is being called into action in B.C.
Meet the Hoag family, Canada’s volleyball dynasty
For the men and women on Canada’s national teams, volleyball is a ticket to see the world—and earn a good living
Playing, with fire: How much risk should we expose our kids to?
Injury-prevention expert Mariana Brussoni on anxiety-based caregiving, risk-taking, and why unsupervised play teaches social skills
The plant that’s eating B.C.
Japanese knotweed is in nearly all our provinces. And the threat is real: it can lower house prices, threaten our bridges, and drive men to madness.
Can families still afford Vancouver?
Sky-high house prices are driving people away from Vancouver, leaving a city with no children. Is it too late to solve its looming labour crisis?
’God made it so they would never have to be alone’
Krista and Tatiana Hogan are conjoined twins who have defied expectations