EducationParents should talk more about post-high school plansDon’t help with homework and forget the PTA: Keith Robinson is challenging the way we think about parental involvement as the key to a child’s success in school
CultureMeet Canada’s first celebrity photographerWilliam Notman, along with a host of forgotten artists, gets his 21st-century moment
UniversityDean Mortensen disappeared, leaving only a blue ball cap behindThe Edmonton student left a campus pub in 1992 and was never seen again
CanadaErnest ’Smoky’ Smith: ’I was never afraid to shoot’From the archives: Canada’s last living recipient of the Victoria Cross, in conversation
LifeAdults turn to children’s books’There are lessons and hope in kids books, unlike self-help books’
CultureAlice Munro: Never too much happinessFrom 2013: Inside the remarkable triumph of the world’s greatest storyteller
SportsBobby Orr: How we’re killing hockeyThe hockey legend in conversation about pushy rinkside parents — and the future of the game
LifeWhy there is no such thing as a safe teen driver... and what parents must do before they hand over the keys
CanadaSo a man walks into a Yukon bar (and swallows a toe)From 2013: ’I really thought I was probably going to end up choking. How lame would that look?’ Joshua Clark recounts the stunt
CanadaThe relentless Terry FoxMaclean’s archives: Terry Fox is now an icon. Back in 1980, he was just a kid trying to save the world from cancer