The controversial ban on rescuing endangered right whalesThe death of a Canadian whale rescuer led Canada and the U.S. to ban operations on right whales—’a real insult’ to their work, says one rescuer
Joseph Michael Howlett, 1958-2017A commercial fisherman, he also co-founded a whale rescue team. He loved the ocean and felt he had to give back to it.
Get real. Jagmeet Singh has been dealing with racist hecklers for months.Wherever Singh goes, the odious fog of Canadian race politics—billowing out of the yawning pits of passive-aggressive antipathy—is sure to follow
Hunting for Donald Trump at Camp DavidTight-lipped park rangers, big black Chevys and a Korean war vet next door. What happens at the presidential retreat when Trump’s around?
“I miss my mother.” It’s not what I expected to hear from a suicide bomber.An excerpt from Payam Akhavan’s 2017 Massey Lecture explores the reality and psychology of ISIS fighters.
Payam Akhavan on the sacrifices needed to make the world saferFrom 2017: A call to action from the UN’s youngest-ever war crimes prosecutor
Hurricane Irma: Watch live as the storm lashes FloridaThe storm threatens the Tampa area with a direct hurricane hit for the first time in nearly a century
51 hurricane seasons in one chartThe 2017 hurricane season has not yet peaked, meaning the number of storms will likely rise much higher
In defence of the LCBO: Ontario’s liquor history holds lessons for potThough it’s fashionable to complain about it now, the province’s liquor control regime has come a long way from its Prohibitionist past
Are extreme hurricanes linked to climate change?The field known as "attribution science" might have the answer