Life

My family and I are woefully unprepared for society to go all Walking Dead on us

Mother Teresa’s cross-border appeal is unmatched, writes Brian Bethune, except by the withering barrage of criticism that has come from all sides

Maclean’s readers write in on crime, refugees, racial representation in Saskatchewan, and more

As a boy he dreamed of being a doctor, but opted to study nursing. With his husband, he took up daring motorcycle trips.

He was a wild child, born on a full moon. He found discipline in karate and became one of Canada’s best martial artists.

Alison Gopnik on the problems with parenting today—and how to embrace messes

A cardiac anaesthesiologist, he trained 150 doctors. Outside work, he pushed himself by scaling increasingly higher mountains.

He survived POW camps and the bombing of Nagasaki. He remained an optimist who loved people.

Our national addiction to Kentucky bluegrass isn’t just bad for your lawn—it’s awful for the planet and your wallet

What Virginia Woolf might have called ‘a room of one’s own’ takes on a new meaning