Society

2020 is a leap year. What would a Canadian YouTube star with more than 7 million subscribers do on the extra day? She’d go into ghost mode.

2020 is a leap year. What would the new host of CBC’s ’The Current’ do with his extra day? Surprisingly, he would not catch up on sleep.

2020 is a leap year. P.K. Subban, Jagmeet Singh, Elizabeth May and Aurora Browne on what they’d do with their whole extra day.

The politicians, activists, celebrities, athletes and writers that will make a splash in one way or another in the coming year

Arctic sea-ice melt has led to collapsed hillsides that morph into rivers of mud, and displaced animals in strange places. Can anyone predict what’s next?

Jane Philpott: If you don’t already know someone who has lost a loved one because of an accidental opioid overdose, it’s only a matter of time until you will

Expect the movement to change the messages we hear, the forms we fill out and the products we buy. But not without pushback.

Andray Domise: People who hold left-leaning ideals have to quit kidding themselves by believing that capitalism exists as a benevolent or even neutral social arrangement

After decades of experimentation, billions of dollars in investment across the globe and gut-wrenching uncertainty about whether it was even physically possible, we’ve proven a quantum computer can work

Scott Gilmore: There will be relentless news of catastrophes, political scandals, economic woes and social strife. Pay no attention.