Society

Scott Gilmore: The truth is that Canadians live healthier, happier and longer lives in cities

Actually, it is a ’global warming thing.’ And that’s just for starters.

Toews’s fictional account of Mennonite women’s response to a four-year rampage of sexual assault in a remote colony in Bolivia may be her finest work yet

After an Arctic freshwater researcher sounded the alarm about Iqaluit’s near-future water crisis, the city took steps to save water. But is it enough?

Anne Kingston: Donald Trump is the obvious fearmeister, but fewer enterprises exploit fear more stealthily than the positive-vibe ’wellness industry’

Photojournalist John Moore captures the many facets of the U.S.-Mexico border—from violence to train-top rides to detention

Maclean’s Editorial: Canada is doing well on social-fluidity measures, like the ’Great Gatsby’ curve. But challenges remain—and so we beat on, boats against the current

The author notes that the culture of pill-taking often takes hold in early life, when kids are prescribed drugs such as Adderall or Ritalin for ADHD

The last hundred days of the First World War started on Aug. 8, 1918. One hundred years later, J.L. Granatstein chronicles those arduous final battles.

I stopped smoking marijuana years ago. But with pot being pitched as the answer to everything from stress to sleeplessness, I decided to find out if cannabis is the fastest route to wellness. Introducing the new world of weed.