Society

Ottawa could lead the world by formally recognizing the mother tongue of the Inuit as an official language within Nunavut

Peter Shawn Taylor: Happiness researchers like Jeffrey Sachs argue we’re suffering from an epidemic of addictions. But science and history tell a different story.

Image of the Week: We’re getting better at evacuations, but not at confronting the reason wildfires are bigger and more frequent

In a new book, an expert in community resilience argues that our emphasis on individual responsibility is preventing us from making better social policies

A hunting ban meant it had been years since residents of Nain had tasted caribou meat, which had once sustained them for centuries. An avalanche and one man’s vision changed that.

Is it too much to ask people to follow through on previously expressed wishes for assisted death? An expert report suggests it may well be.

The head of Historica Canada takes us behind the scenes of a Minute marking the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy

Most Canadians seem unaware of the lake’s newfound legal rights. But it begs the question of whether Ontario farmers bear responsibility for the lake’s woes, too.

Before You Go: Taslim Jaffer and her father visited Mombasa, Kenya, where both of them were born, during a once-in-a-lifetime trip. It was a journey drenched in memories and love.

Michael Coren: For the most part I’d read more than most of the younger students, and had certainly seen more, but their level of concentration and willingness to study terrified me