Society

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

They’re already patrolling malls and airports. But what happens when our lives are truly in the hands of robot police officers?

Online algorithms that have learned how to push our emotional buttons are polarizing society—and the emerging science on the implications is troubling

25 per cent of Canadian seniors live alone, but there lies a little-documented population within that demographic that live in acute isolation