Maclean’s on the Hill: Medical pot, MP votes and Peace Tower bells
The second episode in our summer series of #cdnpoli podcasts
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Can you beat an Olympian at our Olympics Quiz?
See if you can score higher than three-time Canadian Olympic medallist Silken Laumann
Ready or (mostly) not, the Rio Games begin
Security is swarming, the venues are iffy and the opening ceremony will be a low budget affair. Tolerance is the watch-word.
Patty Hearst’s America, 40 years later
New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin finds an engrossing narrative in an old crime story
Six top athletes on their dreams for the Rio Olympics
Maclean’s talks to some of the best Canadian athletes ahead of Rio 2016
A sad ending for the ’world’s loneliest polar bear’
From 2016: Arthur the polar bear never did make it to a refuge in Manitoba
Gregor Robertson, his pop-star girlfriend and a corruption trial
The Vancouver mayor’s relationship with Wanting Qu has largely escaped media scrutiny. Until now.
Talking Points: Of diplomatic peaks and polling-booth leaks
Speed read the news with our Talking Points round-up—our short takes on the week’s news—and sound like the smartest person in the room.
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Aug. 2
Paul Kalanithi tops the non-fiction list (again), and the latest Harry Potter crushes the competition on the fiction list
How the MMIW inquiry could help long-suffering families
Indigenous advocates see family liaison units as a positive first step to help grieving families find answers—but want more to be done