Society

The year 1916 marked the point of no return in the First World War. A look at the titanic French-German struggle at Verdun

Scott Feschuk lived through Ottawa’s largest one-day snowfall in a century. Here’s what he learned.

A brief brouhaha over breastfeeding access for female curlers at the Scotties highlights just how rare such outrages are in the sport

Maclean’s readers write in on Jian Ghomeshi, interest rates and snowmobiles

Despite the PM’s love for Silicon Valley, relying on foreign tech firms for jobs risks turning Canada into a branch-plant economy

More women live alone than ever before, a seismic, society-changing shift. So why is this experience so culturally invisible?

In predicting an imminent clean energy miracle, Bill Gates echoed the famous line from the movie ’The Martian’—a new rallying cry for science and progress

It takes a huge amount of hot water to make the ice in hockey rinks. How technology is helping rinks go green.

A top student and athlete, she was a natural leader with a memorable laugh. To her golf teammates, she was known as kindly Mama G.

A tardigrade, also known as a water bear, and tardigrade egg were revived after three decades of being frozen—and picked up right where they’d left off