Editor's Picks

This week on Maclean’s books podcast: What buzz looks like for the books industry in 2015. Plus: an interview with historian Margaret MacMillan

This week on our culture podcast: Is there too much TV? What’s ’Netflix and chill?’ Plus: Our favourite back-to-school shows and movies

The Victorian and Elizabethan eras were marked by massive change

How Queen Elizabeth II has become one of the most influential and widely admired leaders ever

It makes no economic sense. But that hasn’t stopped shopkeepers and locals in Gaspésie, Que., from carving up money to create a local currency.

Candidates face the dauting challenge of explaining away the recession to hard-hit Alberta voters, living at the pointy end of the downturn

John Geddes on a remarkable shift in Canada’s political landscape as the parties work to outflank each other

A new report shows that Canada isn’t pulling its weight in fostering innovative, globally competitive companies, writes Chris Sorensen

It took a little more than two days, but we finally tracked down Joe Oliver, the finance minister of a country in recession—halfway across the world

Michael Petrou on why it’s time to confront our original failure in Syria: allowing Bashar al-Assad’s reign of terror to continue