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The article discusses news briefs about Canadian government figures as of October 29, 2012. Liberal member of Parliament (MP) Kirsty Duncan is impressed with the knowledge of her seatmate, MP Justin Trudeau. Rona Ambrose, Canadian Minister for the Status of Women, received an award at the United Nations on the first annual International Day of the Girl on October 11, 2012. Conservative MP Linda Frum has aided progressive Islam advocate Irshad Manji, assisting her after her passport was lost.

At this peak a couple of years ago, Josef Penninger was one of the hottest, most charming scientists in the world. From his lab on Toronto's hospital row, Penninger, a fearless anarchist, loved to demolish accepted wisdom as he swooped over a stunningly broad scientific landscape--bone, pain, cancer, heart disease and the immune system.He churned out so many papers in the world's most prestigious scientific journals that for two years running, in 1999 and 2000, the trend-tracker 'Science Watch' said Penninger was among the world's most quoted scientific researchers. Penninger's boss was Tak Mak, the wiry, hard-driven 56-year-old Hong Kong immigrant who has won nearly every scientific prize, except for the Nobel, for his discovery of the holy grail of the immune system.

The article announces the winners of the 3M National Fellowship Award including Andrew Dicks, chemistry teacher at the University of Toronto, Ken Macmillan, history teacher at University of Calgary and Eileen Wood, psychology teacher at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario.

Chronicles several Canadian achievements. Claim of ferry operator Bobby Clarke that Sasquatch is alive and well and living in Norway House, Manitoba; Popularity of Canadian comedian Tony Law at the 2005 Melbourne International Comedy Festival; Prize awarded to Lee Rammage of Burlington, Ontario for winning the Rock Paper Scissors World Championships in Toronto; Prize awarded to Raphaël Fréchette for winning the Wild West Arts Club's Gun Spinning Masters Championship in Claremont, Oklahoma; Comments from lesbian Muslim journalist Irshad Manji regarding the reaction her book "The Trouble with Islam: a Wake-up Call for Honesty and Change"; Others.

Features Canadian economist, Robert Mundell. Recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize for Economics; Recognition of prophetic work on exchange rates and international trade; Intellectual basis for creation of the common European currency; Plans for the prize money.

Presents passages from people's lives as of June 2003. Selection of Senior Writer Brian Bethune of "Maclean's" periodical to receive the 10th annual Jack Award, an honour recognizing an individual who contributed significantly to the promotion of Canadian books; Release of Hillary Clinton's White House memoir, "Living History"; Resignation of "New York Times" executive editor Howell Raines, 60, and managing editor Gerald Boyd, 52, after the recent scandal over Jayson Blair, the staff reporter who committed journalistic fraud in more than 30 stories.

Presents news briefs concerning Canadians as of May 6, 2002. Award received by Carol Shields for her biography 'Jane Austin'; Resignation of Bill Turpin from the 'Halifax Daily News' newspaper; Death of pornography star Linda Lovelace, who appeared in 'Deep Throat.'

The article lists and briefly describes the winners in the banking category of the 2012 "Top 50 Socially Responsible Corporations" competition sponsored by the publication, including Bank of Montreal, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, and Royal Bank of Canada.

The article discusses Canadian members of Parliament (MPs) who have been named Parliamentarians of the Year in 2013 by "Maclean's" magazine including Elizabeth May, Peter Stoffer, and John Baird.

The author offers opinions on the naming of Canadian author Alice Munro as winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. It is stated that in addition to national pride within Canada, authors and critics in English language countries were unanimous in also praising the award. It is also stated that Munro's selection is a recognition of the short story as a literary form, of which Munro is said to be a master.

Provides briefs related to notable persons as of July 30, 2001. Award given to medical researcher Nancy Olivieri; Death of former 'Washington Post' newspaper publisher Katharine Graham; Engagement of Catherine Clark, daughter of Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark; Conviction of author Jeffrey Archer for perjury.

Offers celebrity-related news briefs. Announcement that former Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard will work as a lawyer after resigning from office; Induction of John Roth, chief executive officer of Nortel Networks Corp., into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame; Death of journalist Jim Proudfoot; Death of abstract painter and sculptor Charles Daudelin.

Presents a list of entrance scholarships available to students at 67 universities across Canada, with information on criteria students must meet to qualify and the amount of money awarded.

The article focuses on the popularity of musician Leslie Feist. Known in the music industry as Fiest, she discusses her commercial and critical success, her 2008 Grammy nominations, as well as her Canadian upbringing. Article topics include a discussion of her personal life and professional achievements, her albums "Let It Die" and "Mushaboom," and her lack of ambition. Commentary by Feist is provided.

The article discusses the 3M National Teaching Fellows, Canada's most prestigious university teaching award. The award was the inspiration of John Myser in 1986, who was then president of 3M Canada. Myser committed his company to this long-running sponsorship in collaboration with the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in Canada. "Maclean's" became the media partner for the awards in 2006. INSET: THIS YEAR'S 3M TEACHING FELLOWS.

In March, accepting the Oscar for best documentary feature, director Michael Moore stood on stage with a phalanx of his fellow nominees and defended the notion of non-fiction. He was using it as a conceit to attack the "fictional" presidency of U.S. President George W. Bush and the war in Iraq. But the director of "Bowling for Columbine" was also taking a stand for documentary truth in the face of industrial illusion--even if some would argue that there's as much conjuring as journalism in Moore's work. Last week (April 25-May 4), Toronto celebrated the 10th anniversary of Hot Docs, North America's largest documentary festival. And some of the festival's most powerful entries were Canadian--notably "The Last Round," about George Chuvalo's stoical defeat to Muhammad Ali in 1966, "Men of the Deeps," an eloquent portrait of Cape Breton coal miners, and "Rage Against the Darkness," a harrowing tale of two aging sisters warehoused in separate institutions.

The article discusses the methodology used for rankings of Canadian universities and colleges published in the same issue of the journal. Emphasis is given to topics such as collecting data on awards for college students, the success of faculty at obtaining research grants, and bibliometric evaluation of scholarly publishing.

The article announces that Minister Lloyd Axworthy of Foreign Affairs in Canada has received the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from "Maclean's" magazine.

An introduction is presented to a special report on the 2012 "Top 50 Socially Responsible Corporations" competition sponsored by the publication along with research firm Sustainalytics, with winners including tire company Canadian Tire, auto company Ford Motor Co., and clothing retailer Gap Inc.

The article offers new briefs about notable people in current events. Canadian sculptor Michel De Broin was awarded 2007's Tobey Art Award for promising artists under 40. The president of Indonesia, Susil Bambang YudhoYono, has released a CD entitled "My Longing For You" which features Indonesian pop stars singing his compositions. Russian tennis player Nikolay Davydenko was fined $2,000 by the Association of Tennis Professionals for suspicion of throwing his match against Marin Cilic.

Profiles World War II veteran Mona Parsons. Arrest of Parsons by the Gestapo and trial for crimes against the Third Reich; Experiences of Parsons at Nazi labor camps; Citation of Parsons from United States President Dwight Eisenhower for bravery.

The article profiles the municipal government of London, Ontario, which has been called the worst municipal council ever, after all fourteen members of the council voted to honor themselves with Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medals during Diamond Jubilee celebrations in Canada in 2012.

The article looks at the 2011 Giller Prize, a Canadian literary award. Topics discussed include the awarding of the Readers' Choice Award to author Myrna Dey for her debut novel "Extensions," the prize selection process, and many voters' inability to read books published in September before the voting deadline of August 2011. Other authors short-listed for the prize, awarded in November, include Guy Vanderhaeghe, Patrick deWitt, and Esi Edugyan.

This is an article that focuses on the publishing industry and the authors who were nominated for literary awards in 2004.In September, buzz in the CanLit world always starts to coalesce around possibilities for the national fiction prizes, the Giller and the Governor General's, and--should there be any compatriots involved--Britain's Man Booker Prize. This year there are two Canadian novels on the Booker's so-called long list of 22 (The Island Walkers by John Bemrose and Lewis DeSoto's A Blade of Grass), though London bookies don't expect either to be on the six-book short list when it's announced on Sept. 21. Giller nominees will be announced on Oct. 7, three weeks before the five authors are scheduled to read from their works at Toronto's International Festival of Authors, as part of the 25th anniversary celebrations at the nation's pre-eminent literary gathering. Who the five might be is wide open at this point, given the distinguished--and sober-minded--jury panel of biographer Charlotte Gray and novelists Alistair MacLeod and M.G. Vassanji, and a desultory spring list. Two spring sleepers, David Bezmozgis's Natasha and Other Stories and A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews, may catch the jury's eye, along with fall titles from former Giller nominees Michael Helm (In the Place of Last Things), Greg Hollingshead (Bedlam) and Bill Gaston (Sointula), or such prominent writers as Susan Swan (What Casanova Told Me), Michael Winter (The Big Why) and Catherine Bush (Claire's Head).

Offers celebrity-related news briefs as of December 6, 2000. Award given to Quebec crime reporter Michel Auger by the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression; Dismissal of the general manager, and the head and assistant coaches of the Montreal Canadiens; Death of long distance runner Emil Zatopek; Donations given by Israel Asper to Canadian charitable foundations.