Gotcha! The vicious cycle of aggressive charitiesHow Canadian charities offer pre-emptive gifts to potential donors, and then follow up with a healthy dose of guilt
HBC’s ’Colonial Barbie’ comes with some baggageThe toy, emblazoned in the Hudson’s Bay Company’s iconic colours, is a hot-ticket reminder of a colonial past
Maclean’s picks the best books of 2016Our books writer Brian Bethune reveals his unranked list of his favourite reads of 2016
Expect more Trumped up TV in 2017TV has never met a zeitgeist it couldn’t embrace—so get ready for more flag-waving and backlash politics
Warning: Strange science looms ahead in 20172017 will be a year when science will seem a lot like science fiction
Remembering Tom Thomson’s life—one tweet at a timeExactly one hundred years after his mysterious death, a Twitter account will trace his last days
Who really killed JFK? We might get new insight in 2017.On Oct. 26, millions of pages of documents on the Kennedy assassination could finally be released
B.C.’s free loans to homebuyers won’t buy much in VancouverB.C.’s plan to give new homebuyers interest-free loans is a terrible idea that will only worsen Vancouver’s housing bubble
Why one Canadian is joining the Tories—in protestA progressive doctor explains why Kellie Leitch’s extreme policy positions have turned apathy into panic
Ottawa’s reigning political selfie junkie is not who you thinkThe Prime Minister takes a lot of flack when he constantly poses for selfies at public events. But he’s not Ottawa’s selfie king.