Nova Scotia entrepreneur turns old sails into trendy messenger bags
The ’upcycling’ effort has diverted 225,000 kg of old sail cloth from the landfill
Society
Reinventing Montreal smoked meat
Jacob Richler on how smoked meat has become a fusion food
Podcast: Hunting for planets
Astronomers how think our galaxy is filled with billions of planets. Kate Lunau on the Biggest Discovery Ever
Chat replay: What’s wrong with our obsession with hockey?
Ken Campbell, author of Selling The Dream, takes your questions
What is known—and not known—about your flu medication
Julia Belluz explains why Canada’s emergency stockpile of Tamiflu comes as no relief
The provinces where Canadians call in sick most often
The number of days per year the average worker called in sick, or took the day off for personal reasons, by province:...
Winfrey and Armstrong: when tarnished halo brands collide
Forget "no-holds-barred," this will be a staged cage-match
Why edible burger wrappers get it wrong
Food wrapping made of rice paper creates less waste, but it’s too gross to catch on
10 most notorious prisoners of the maximum security Kingston Penitentiary
It opened in 1835, and though it was men-only in recent years, it used to have women and even child inmates. The prison is slated...
The new underclass
Why a generation of well-educated, ambitious, smart young Canadians has no future