CollegesSkills Canada: The Olympics for trades studentsCollege students from around the world compete for medals, which shine on the resumes of these Canadian winners
TelevisionEllen Page on ’Gaycation’ and the privilege of travelOn VICELAND’s ’Gaycation,’ Ellen Page and Ian Daniel travel the world to take the temperature of gay culture
LifeBrain hacks for better productivityApps and to-do lists aren’t enough: What the making of Frozen can teach us about productivity
CanadaWhy ’kindness meters’ are a horrible way to deal with panhandlersAn new approach to dealing with panhandlers is catching on. But they fail to live up to the ’kindness’ in the name.
BooksThe fictionalized tale of the Atwood of 17th century EnglandMen may have called her ’mad.’ But Margaret Cavendish was also brilliant
EducationWhere students study the most 2016: full resultsA full list of 53 schools, ranked by average hours spent studying a week, calculated from self-reported data from the Maclean’s student survey
ScienceSurvival of the prettiest: The mysterious power of attractive peopleFrom picking mates to choosing politicians, new research says society’s bias toward attractiveness has ugly results
ScienceIn defence of genetically modified foodMore scientists are coming around to GMO safety. Why are environmentalists, who preach the science of climate change, not listening?
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