Health

Scientist Giulia Enders on the gut’s power to alter our immune system, weight, moods and memory

Allan Markin is one of Alberta’s richest men—and a crusader to get Canadians to take more vitamin D. Misguided eccentric, or visionary?

Did Eugene Melnyk’s wealth and fame give him an unfair advantage? The answer is not as simple as it may appear, reports Michael Friscolanti

The viral craze raised a cool $17 million for ALS Canada. How to spend that money has posed its own challenges.

Milk is unhealthy, unnecessary, bad for the planet—even racist? Welcome to the new food war.

The cheeky rebranding of multiple sclerosis in Canada raises the fair question: why are rates so high here?

Cheeseburger-loving flexitarians are driving a vegan boom—to the ire of some

Historian Jonathan Zimmerman on why teachers hate sex ed and democracy is terrible for it, and how a history of the subject is like Seinfeld

Despite evidence that it’s time to abandon the no-nit rule requiring kids be sent home, schools have yet to get the message

Melanie York, a fierce advocate we profiled in March 2014, has passed away. A friend remembers her remarkable legacy.