Society

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

A tempest about Prince William’s work ethic is now a scandal focusing on the future king’s laziness

The effects of the Middle Kingdom’s one-child policy, from the strictly economic to the social, will play out for decades to come

The once sombre death notice is now seen as a way for the recently deceased to make one final political appeal to the living: who to vote for, or against.