The world’s worst opera singer
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Why parents should give up trying to produce perfect kids
Alison Gopnik on the problems with parenting today—and how to embrace messes
What Canada could learn from a Dutch self-build housing movement
Low-income Dutch families have wrested control of their homes from big developers who pump up prices. Could Vancouver be next?
Why did the Rio Olympics pool water turn green?
Whatever the reason, it seems to have helped Canadians. But don’t expect the water to remain emerald green for long.
Why men shouldn’t get the credit when women win in Rio
Sports lingo overwhelmingly treats male achievement as superior, and looks to the nearest man whenever a woman strikes gold
Benfeito and Filion come back for Rio bronze
’We understand each other without having to talk,’ says bronze-winning Filion of her teammate and best friend
At the Rio Olympics, LGBT athletes force progress
LGBT competitors have broken records—and barriers—from Rio’s very first moments
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Aug. 9
What cracked the top of our fiction list? As if you can’t guess. Meanwhile, Paul Kalanithi still rules the non-fiction world.
How gaming companies co-opt the language of oppression
Eidos Montreal’s “Augs Lives Matters” reference reveals the latest example of gaming companies’ casual ignorance of real-world race issues
Has a national portrait gallery’s time come, again?
The head of the gallery Harper scrapped calls for Trudeau to revive it