The makers of the metaverse want you to give up on reality
Silicon Valley is promising a digital world within our world. But logging in to the metaverse won’t solve our issues.
Culture
This Canadian teenager wrote your favourite Frida Kahlo quote
The web has wrongly credited the brooding meditations of a Canadian teen to the artist Frida Kahlo. Is that necessarily a bad thing?
Heather O’Neill on Sarah Polley
Polley became famous when she was 11. Her story’s gone untold–until now.
Two paintings by a beloved Nova Scotia folk artist have vanished. Can they have gone far?
Maud Lewis’s paintings have recently become sought-after collectibles. Two have disappeared–and they’re tearing a community apart.
Six books to read this spring
A novel by the creator of ’Little Mosque on the Prairie’ and an inside look at the race to develop the COVID vaccine are among our picks for the best reads of the spring
As photo booths disappear, the pictures they gave us are ever more precious
Photo booths had a unique ability to capture some of our silliest and most intimate moments, leaving us with a precious record of time
The story behind Marc-André Fleury’s Indigenous-designed helmet
The Chicago Blackhawks wanted to honour their Indigenous namesakes. Toronto-based Ojibwe artist Patrick Hunter explains the thinking behind the new helmet.
The key to survival: Find five people. Hold them close.
Close relationships—about five of them—are as essential as food and water, according to this author
Their children’s lives have gone interrupted for years. Parents are fighting for a return to normalcy.
Hapless political leaders are experiencing the Old Testament wrath of moms and dads. Here’s why fed-up parents are on the Maclean’s Power List this year.
Murray and Niigaan Sinclair, the father-son duo working toward reconciliation—and opening Canada’s eyes
If legal titan Murray Sinclair was the first person in the room, his media-savvy son is trying to change the room altogether. Together, they are at No. 30 on our Power List.