Society

Two novels by the Canadian author are set to get the deluxe film treatment—including a Netflix movie by Charlie Kaufman

Jaron Lanier says social media is turning us into highly manipulable addicts. The only solution is for users to pay—and own their own data.

Peter Shawn Taylor explains the rise and fall of the golden—and federally funded—age of hitchhiking

Nature’s most beautiful bird or a car-attacking menace? Peafowl are causing conflict among residents.

Given the choice to sell marijuana or not, the lakeside town of Gimli, Man., opted out. Without a slice of the revenue, what’s in it for them?

An immigrant couple in Toronto put up a sign offering their dry-cleaning services for people in need—and in their own way, put some good out into the world

Hint: Temperature and rainfall are big indicators of what sort of mosquito population you can expect to battle at the cottage

Perfect strangers across Canada peppered this couple’s journey to a new home with roadside messages and personal notes

Opinion: Illicit funds, a useless city council and dysfunction ignored by the feds. Vancouver’s damage will take years to mend, writes Terry Glavin.

As one key U.S. Supreme Court justice retires this summer, the future of all manner of issues — and abortion rights in particular — have been called into question