Society

High winds and strong tides clog Darnley channel with sand, forcing captains to risk running aground. Some say the only solution is building a new $42-million harbour—but Ottawa isn’t ponying up.

Jen Gerson: It’s difficult for someone today, subject to countless videos of police abuse, to wrap our heads around this idea—but the Metropolitan Police Act of 1829 created a liberal institution

A new book explores the significant Indigenous influence on HBC’s expansion and how, for all its many evils, the company kept vast swaths of Canada from becoming part of the U.S.

Walter Reynolds was bludgeoned to death by a patient, shocking Canada’s medical community and prompting physicians to share their own dangerous brushes with abuse

At the Tokyo Summer Games next year, Haley and her dad Kimberly could make history. Haley as potentially part of the first group of female Olympic canoeists and her dad as among the first transgender officials.

For the next five years, the Ryerson University Library will display a 10-by-15.7-foot portrait of Anishinaabekwe Tee Lyn Duke in her traditional regalia

Last year, veterans at Remembrance Day ceremonies across the country told Maclean’s about their experiences at war

The new season of the popular Netflix series focuses on the doomed fairy-tale royal couple and the British prime minister of the day, Margaret Thatcher

An ongoing series of book-length essays called ’Field Notes’, features political and cultural critics who comment on the pandemic and anti-racism movements

Over the years, Gilles Haineault would scour a nearby quarry for interesting finds. Now, his best specimens have been acquired by the Canadian Museum of Nature at a value of $4.5 million.