Editor's Picks

On the Sunday before the second general assembly of the UN, Pierre Berton explored what went on inside the New York City building

’The Christian idea, or primeval paganism in modern clothes? That is the sovereign question which faces us’

As Canada nurses its World Junior wounds, a look back at former Leafs coach Joe Primeau’s 1945 reminder that there’s ’nothing as unpredictable as a junior hockey player’

In 1944, Maclean’s war correspondent asks: What does Christmas mean in a world torn apart by the greatest war in history?

’No one will ever know what Vimy cost. But this I can say: It was too much’

On Feb. 23, 1909, engineer J.A.D. McCurdy piloted the Silver Dart—the first successful airplane flight by a Canadian—over the ice of Baddeck Bay, N.S.

Frederick Banting’s 1924 piece from our archives tells the story of research, and explains how big achievements are built on patience—and seemingly futile endeavours

From the Maclean’s Archives: The experiences of a Canadian prisoner of war, from 1917

From the archives: Read the tale of Canada’s formation, as told by Maclean’s magazine’s first editor Thomas Bertram in 1917

Nellie McClung in 1916: ’That any change may bring personal inconvenience lies at the root of much of the opposition to all reform’