Photo essay: From Doves above, images of our stunning Earth below
Planet Labs launched 28 Dove satellites from the ISS and scanned the planet. Their mission? Scan the Earth every day to change it for the better.
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Meagan Campbell
Meagan Campbell is based at the Ottawa bureau, where she writes about politics and the people behind it. In the past, she’s worked with The Atlantic Monthly, The Spectator (U.K.) and CBC Radio. She’ll always be from Charlottetown.
Earl Cowan, the fly in the Conservatives’ rally ointment
The Tories had refined their recipe for a smooth rally down to a science. But maybe they’ll now need to vet even their most ardent defenders.
Beware: Killer electric fans
Is falling asleep next to an electric fan a potentially fatal mistake? In South Korea at least, it is widely thought to be.
Trudeaumania with a mean streak
At a packed rally of red clad fans, the Liberal leader and Kathleen Wynne teed off on Harper
#macdebate by the numbers: ’What’s your number, Justin?’
The Maclean’s debate, by the numbers
Sah-ry, eh? We’re in the midst of the Canadian Vowel Shift
The old vowels are ’oot’: Canadians are changing how we speak, though none of us are noticing. Linguists might know why.
Photo essay: Brazil’s threatened tribe, damned by a dam
Cristina Mittermeier has spent years documenting the Kayapo tribe in Brazil—and its fight to save a culture and way of life
In Indonesia, Joshua Oppenheimer prods an open wound again
The sequel to the acclaimed documentary ’The Act of Killing’ shocks a nation into talking about its genocidal past
Remembering Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of the (dwarf) planet Pluto
He lived in awe at the grandness of the universe, so it’s fitting perhaps that his ashes are now 0.0005 light years away
The centre of controversy: Where is Canada’s middle?
It should be an easy question: What’s Canada’s geographic centre? But groups in Manitoba and Nunavut say they’re right.