SocietyMaking the Queen’s day: Sept 9, 2015Dutiful as always, but a bit rebellious on this record-setting day
OttawaIs this Stephen Harper’s last stand?The Conservatives are in third place in the polls. But Stephen Harper is loose, almost joyful. Is this a man resigned to his fate?
BooksSalman Rushdie talks about his (sort of) optimistic new novelRushdie’s latest, ’Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights,’ is a meditation on the mutability of the world
CultureLawrence Hill: ’For us, the only legitimate refugee is in a camp’In Lawrence Hill’s new and prescient novel, a brilliant runner fleeing crisis is a metaphor for the endless movement of African peoples
TelevisionStephen Colbert tries to reach Middle AmericaThe late-night innovator steps into the most innovation-resistant format in TV. Jaime Weinman on Stephen Colbert’s first Late Show
Economic analysisThe good news—but missed opportunity—in Harper’s RESP pledgeWhen it comes to boosting the use of RESPs, the question of how many people participate is as important as how much those who participate contribute
BooksThe Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Sept. 8The hottest titles in both fiction and non-fiction
OttawaYou’re not the voter you think you areOn political free will and Parliament Hill: Why we make the decisions we do at the ballot box, and how parties use that knowledge to try to woo us
PhotoPhoto essay: The flight and plight of refugees in EuropeThe photo of the body of young refugee Alan Kurdi was heart-wrenching. But there is even more suffering that we do not see—and must see
BooksA layperson’s guide to architecture, arranged in clear, clean linesBook review: Full of cocktail-party tidbits, Witold Rybczynski’s lucid essay collection showcases the best and worst in architecture’s history