year ahead

Here is the lineup for the inaugural Maclean’s Ideas Summit 

Get a front-row seat to the most important conversations affecting Canadians, featuring some of the country’s brightest minds and most innovative thinkers

Canada will rule the world, a century after Laurier intended

David Moscrop: Canada has faced major challenges, and sometimes failed. But as major powers peck themselves to death, we’ve set ourselves up as a global leader.

‘Oumuamua: Hunk of interstellar rock or sun-powered alien UFO?

As a mysterious flying object exits our solar system, we asked experts to speculate on its origins

Cooking 3 rotisserie chicken on the grill with Charcoal

Have we reached peak chicken?

Costco is opening a new megaplant to meet the growing demand for cheap rotisserie chickens, which are being embraced by busy parents, thrifty shoppers and health nuts alike

The most important charts to watch in 2019

Our fifth annual bonanza of more than 70 charts to help you make sense of the economy in the year ahead

Canada is a tinderbox for populism. The 2019 election could spark it.

Opinion: This country isn’t immune to the economic and demographic forces currently dividing the United States

Canada’s five biggest challenges in 2017

From Trump’s anti-free trade stance to Canada’s stalled economic growth, Evan Solomon examines the most perplexing problems facing Canada in the year ahead

The End: Goodbye to the mail carrier

After centuries of strikes, slights and provincial squabbles, electronic mail spelled his death

Height makes right in the NHL

Zdeno Chára’s got company. At the last NHL entry draft, 26 players were six foot four or taller.

In search of a perfect parliament

Well-behaved MPs, civil debates, lofty discourse? We can but dream.

Fitness fads for the year ahead

Cool air and hot pools are only two of the mediums changing the nature of working out