Steinbach Pride: Inside a battle for LGBT rights
Steinbach was famous for being Canada’s most charitable community. Now it’s becoming known for its hostile treatment of its LGBT citizens.
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Nancy Macdonald
Nancy Macdonald writes primarily for Maclean’s national section. The transplanted Winnipegger now calls Vancouver home and spends her off-hours chasing her spirited toddler.
A rabbi walks into a gay bar: After Orlando, a pride revolution
In once-unsympathetic cities like Surrey, in churches and Orthodox synagogues, the senseless violence of Orlando has sparked a movement
The Conservative Party begins the task of reinventing itself
Leadership candidates and young partisans begin by both building on and repudiating Stephen Harper’s legacy
Sen. Murray Sinclair on truth and reconciliation’s progress
One year after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report was released, its leader discusses forgiveness, inspirations, and challenges ahead
How grassroots Tories changed their party’s definition of marriage
Joseph Heap and Natalie Pon teamed up with a Calgary MP to out-hustle those in the party opposed to updating CPC policy on marriage
Stephen Harper’s exit: One last thanks to party faithful
Address to Conservative convention included repeated nods to what will surely be Harper’s most lasting legacy: Party unity
Ian Young on Vancouver’s ’freak show’ housing market
A Q&A with the Vancouver correspondent for the South China Morning Post, a keen observer of the city’s housing market and its unaffordability crisis
The troubled life of Canadian outlaw Daniel Wolfe
Joe Friesen tells the story of the founder of Indian Posse, Canada’s largest street gang
’Just run!’ Fort McMurray evacuees describe their escape
Maclean’s speaks with evacuees after they arrived in Edmonton, by way of Fort MacKay
The fight to staunch a street war in Surrey
A hundred new RCMP officers have failed to protect Surrey from an all-too-familiar wave of gun violence. So now what?