SocietyCurtis Allen Nadeau, 1981-2015After a liver transplant at the age of five, he became national news. He dreamed of becoming a police officer and living a normal life.
ScienceWhat do Canada’s astronauts think of the Mars One program?One astronaut believes it’s a ’fraud’. To another, it’s ’unethical.’ Does Mars One make sense?
PoliticsElection 2015: Four weeks in the life of a countryLife, death and politics in the first four weeks of the federal election campaign
BooksLouise Penny’s small-town murder mysteries are more than cozyFrom 2015: ’My books are about a lot of things, but murder is probably the least of them; they’re more allegory than cozy’
OttawaMaclean’s on the Hill: Balance budgets, Bob Rae’s new bookAlso: looking back and looking ahead at #elxn42
PoliticsThe election week that was: How do you balance a budget?Aaron Wherry on seven days on the campaign trail
OttawaA horrible, horrible dream: Mike Duffy in The Trial of the CenturyWeek 10: It was a dream, Duffy kept telling himself. The kids in short pants set loose in ’Lord of the Flies’. But, dream or not, he was still running.
Economic analysisDoes it even matter if we are in a statutory recession?Questions and answers about Q2 numbers and the ongoing economic debate
PodcastThe Thrill: A pop music spectacularThis week on our culture podcast: Chilly Gonzales’s dissertations on pop, and we talk Carly Rae Jepsen’s new album Plus: our songs of the summer