Society

Starting March 7 the five brightest planets—Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn—will be present for viewing in Canada

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Bill Nye can wax lyrical all they want, but when it comes to truly supporting science, Canada has nothing to crow about.

Meet astronaut David Saint-Jacques, the next Canadian to travel to the International Space Station in Nov. 2018.

Our galaxy is filled with so many stars, some were bound to be oddballs. This month, the Perimeter Public Lecture looks at some of the strangest. Watch live on Mar. 7

But in his new book Enlightenment Now, Pinker warns authoritarian populism on the right, and repressiveness on the left, could thwart progress

After Gerald Stanley’s acquittal in the death of Colten Boushie, tensions around the Battlefords are high, and fear and hatred are close to the surface.

It was the first concrete evidence of the leatherback in the Bras d’Or. Experts say her ’third eye’ led the creature astray—and eventually to an icy death

Opinion: Medical distress on planes is rising—but what each airline keeps handy, and how flight crews are trained to respond, varies wildly

An exclusive Maclean’s investigation—including interviews with dozens of survivors—uncovers how universities routinely abandon victims.

Opinion: Health impacts related to racism interrupt narratives of the ’disadvantaged,’ the ’poor,’ the ’lazy’ and the ’needy’