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If anyone can be called the boss in modern, anti-hierarchical parenthood, it's the children. Why it's time for parents to start being grown-ups again. ? For modern families, the adage [...]

When they say work-life balance is a women's issue, they're forgetting someone. The case for men's liberation--and why it matters to women. ANDREW MORAVCSIK WOULD seem an unlikely revolutionary. But [...]

On Feb. 20, Maclean's hosts the first in a series of town hall meetings, 'End-of Life Care: A National Dialogue.' Held at the Sheraton Hotel in St. John's, N.L., in [...]

SINCE THE SUMMER of 2012, Olie Pullen has kept in her bedroom closet a Wonder Woman costume, which she loves, but has struggled to actually wear. The plan had been [...]

The latest health fad may be doing more harm than good. Even the Wheat Belly guru is worried. THE FIRST TIME Margaret Dron organized the Gluten Free Expo early last [...]

When Marc Wilchesky started working at Toronto's York University in the 1980s, one of his first projects was to develop support strategies for students with learning disabilities. Upon arriving at [...]

EVER SINCE A dresser fell on top of little Gabriel and cracked his head open two years ago, he has slept in his parents' bed. He's six years old now, [...]

THERE IS NO limit to what some people will pay for someone else's time and sweat. Sheri Bruneau first learned that lesson four years ago when she quit teaching elementary [...]

CANADA WITHOUT WINTER is a foreign place. Not white, not cold, not snowy, like most of us have known it to be. Not conducive to carnivals across the country that [...]

THERE'S NOTHING WRONG with a wife earning more money than her husband, until it happens. So learned Suzanne Doyle-Morris, a professional development coach based in the U.K., when she met [...]

WHEN JIM BALSILLIE and Mike Lazaridis, the former co-CEOs of BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion Ltd., cut their salaries to $1 last December, and asked investors for patience and confidence, most [...]

THE DAY BEGAN with a romantic walk on the beach. Nazanin Afshin-Jam and Peter MacKay ambled along white sand as waves crashed against dark rocks and pelicans dove around them. [...]

TED CARRICK IS listening to Sidney Crosby's heart. The NHL superstar is strapped into a computerized rotating chair that has just spun him like a merry-go-round. It is, as Carrick [...]

HE HAD STARTED complaining of pain and stiffness in late June. He was perspiring a lot, and found it hard to stand for long periods of time. His chief of [...]

BEFORE THERE was Sidney Crosby, there was Eric Lindros. Both were hockey prodigies as young teenagers. Both were drafted first overall into the NHL. Both won the league MVP in [...]

INSIDE A WHITE cement-block science lab at the University of Ottawa, two young researchers cover a beige crash-test dummy head with a black nylon stocking. It's supposed to mimic the [...]

UNTIL A MONTH ago, there was nothing typical about Sidney Crosby. At 23, the Pittsburgh Penguins captain had already won the Stanley Cup, an Olympic gold medal, and the praise [...]

THERE WAS NOTHING stately or demure about Kate Middleton that night in March 2002. Barely clothed, the lithe brunette sashayed down a dimly lit catwalk toward Prince William, who--sporting a [...]

LEE BURGESS, one of four Ontario prosecutors working the Russell Williams case, warned the judge that the evidence to come was 'extremely disturbing.' But no words--not his, nor anybody else's--would [...]

LAST WEEK, AFTER rampant forest fires had decimated thousands of hectares of his homeland, and burned alive dozens of his countrymen, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin boarded an amphibious aircraft [...]

ON JULY 15, 2009, an hour before Col. Russell Williams was sworn in as the new boss of CFB Trenton, a two-seater jet skidded off the air base runway and [...]

LAST WEEK, in a traditionally appointed Vancouver living room, Dr. Mark Godley made an announcement that could change the face of Canadian medicine. Addressing a multiple sclerosis support group that [...]

In the early 1990s, years before Col. Russell Williams was an accused double murderer, he was a young, eager lieutenant stationed at the Canadian Forces flying school in Portage la [...]

When it comes to combatting terrorist bombers and hijackers on airplanes, Canada has a secret weapon that is the envy of every nation: our sky marshals, a covert cadre of [...]

Canada is barely a few weeks into the biggest mass immunization campaign in the nation's history, and by now everyone has heard--or, worse, lived--a flu shot horror story. 'It's been [...]

In a few weeks, every adult in Canada will decide if they (and their children) will get the flu vaccine to protect against HIN1. At the best of times, it [...]

When Wayne Murray, 52, arranged a week in Montego Bay, Jamaica, last spring with his wife Mina, 51, it was supposed to be a stress reliever. Mina's sister had just [...]

When it comes to fluoride in his community's water, the mayor of Lambton Shores, Ont., Gord Minielly, has one thing to say: 'Better out than in.' But he's not the […]

How dumb do you think Canadians are? The answer may come as an unpleasant surprise. A new report by the Canadian Council on Learning shows that, for the first time [...]

When Jaring Timmerman of Winnipeg started swimming competitively, he was 80. That was two decades ago. Last month, Timmerman, who celebrated his centennial on Feb. 11, participated in the Manitoba [...]

You'd have to go back in Audrey and Owen Freeman's lives to the Christmas of 1964 to find a time such as this--when bleak circumstances should doom the spirit of [...]

If you were to imagine Canada's smartest city--a place filled with fascinating people, cultural delights and endless learning opportunities--what would it be like? It would probably be a smallish community, [...]

Last February, in the days following a Caribbean cruise hosted by the Barenaked Ladies--a kind of floating music festival with ports of call in the Cayman Islands and Jamaica--Internet message [...]

You've probably been asked a few times today, 'How are you?' If you're like most Canadians, no matter what is ailing you-a headache, a nagging worry--your automatic and unspecific reply [...]

Convention says calcium is good for bones. But if you read recent research you might never take calcium supplements again. They may increase the risk of heart attack in healthy [...]

When Jamie Lynn Spears, the 16-year-old sister of Britney, announced that she was pregnant last month in OK!, the magazine sold a record two million copies and had to run […]

When Jennifer realized she was pregnant last summer, she called her family doctor's office to make an appointment for a referral to an obstetrician. Having delivered her first daughter almost […]

The morning after Emily Cunningham got a shot of Gardasil, the new vaccine that protects against four strains of the human papilloma virus (HPV) that can cause cervical cancer and […]

ONE MONDAY NIGHT in late February, a woman in her 60s met Dr. Ellen Wiebe in Vancouver to receive her dying wish: a lethal medication. Hanne Schafer had been ravaged [...]

We're safer, richer, healthier--and more miserable--than ever before. What new research reveals about happiness. And how to find it. A few minutes after Neil Pasricha learned his wife Leslie was [...]

'MOMMY KNOWS BEST' is a popular expression but it's not a universally accepted truth. Several months ago, Jacqueline Howard refused to believe that her eight-year-old son Oliver had attention deficit [...]

AFTER READING a report about the presence of environmental toxins in breast milk in 2004, American journalist Florence Williams, who'd just had a child at the time, decided to have [...]

DEEP BENEATH THE streets of Montreal's entertainment district, running alongside the usual water, sewage and gas pipes that lie underground in every community across the country, something entirely unique is [...]

TALK TO PEOPLE living in I the North about why the I violent crime rate is so high compared to the rest of Canada and you'll hear about the 'complex' [...]