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The Tehran air crash victims followed a path of hope to Canada. We learn much by walking in their footsteps. One of the routes to the heartbreak of North Vancouver's [...]

A modest concrete war memorial sits outside the Okanagan Indian Band offices near Vernon, B.C., a reminder of heroism, loss and of a lingering threat that even today casts a [...]

A veiled Muslim? A native-born terrorist? How the campaign is distorting the true meaning of citizenship. They arrived early, many before 8 a.m., in the warming promise of a Vancouver [...]

Nine years after Capt. Trevor Greene took an axe to the head in Afghanistan, he is walking again, with the help of an exoskeleton and the Royal Canadian Legion. It [...]

As of next month, Elizabeth will have ruled longer than any other British monarch. How she became one of the most influential and widely admired leaders ever. This June 24, [...]

Japanese knotweed is in all provinces, with the exceptions--so far--of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The threat is real: In the U.K., a single plant can lower house values. It was June [...]

Last year, five elderly Canadians were allegedly killed by fellow seniors with dementia. Senior violence is getting worse, and the solutions are troubling. WHAT DO YOU do with a man [...]

Canada is pinning its medal hopes for Sochi 2014 on savvy veterans, high-flying rookies and a bunch of new events SLOPESTYLE MARK MCMORRIS BACK WHEN DON McMorris had a no-win [...]

A friend of Harold Town and Jack Bush, he should have been as famous. After being buried for 60 years, his works are seeing the light of day. The production [...]

A road runs through the Horn of Panjwai district, Afghanistan, linking the impoverished residents of its western region with the farm markets and government services in Kandahar province. It is [...]

STANDING ON THE shore of British Columbia's Adams River, as battered, exhausted sockeye salmon finish their 500-km journey from the Pacific to spawn and die, can reduce a person to [...]

Barely 26 hours into his life, and William and Kate's first child is already an heir to the throne, an international celebrity and a comforting symbol of continuity. His life, [...]

How North Vancouver's Rebecca Rubin landed in the crosshairs of the biggest eco-terrorism in U.S. history, and spent 10 years on the run. Ken MacQueen on a tale of sabotage, [...]

SOMETIME THIS YEAR, if it hasn't happened already, the millionth Canadian will be arrested for marijuana possession, Dana Larsen estimates. The indefatigable B.C.-based activist for pot legalization is thinking of [...]

THE STATEMENT MONDAY from St. James's Palace had all the hallmarks of a rush job: 'Their royal highnesses the duke and duchess of Cambridge are very pleased to announce that [...]

IN THE QUIET moment before his race began, Adam van Koeverden reached down to the hull of his kayak and used his finger to trace out the name: Simon Whitfield. [...]

THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF the outer track at London's Olympic Stadium is about 500 m, which is fine for a runner, but much longer than Derek Drouin anticipated when he snatched [...]

AS A MIDFIELDER on the Canadian women's Olympic soccer team, Desiree Scott ranges some 11 km during a game, sometimes at a lope, often with explosive sprints and violent course [...]

HIS NAME IS Jeremiah Brown. He spent four years on the offensive line of the McMaster University Marauders football team. He's here--improbably--rowing on Elk Lake outside of Victoria, enduring coach [...]

ON THE DAY of the funeral of Diana, princess of Wales-a sunny Saturday in September 1997-there was one small item that broke a million hearts in a city, and a [...]

CANADA'S FINANCES MAY be the envy of the world, but the bar is awfully low these days. Whether it's Ottawa. the provinces or municipalities, governments across the country face horrendous [...]

A SLEEP-DEPRIVED Catherine Galliford is running on adrenalin and ragged nerves after a wild week that saw the RCMP corporal rock her employer with claims that she was sexually harassed [...]

IT'S ONE OF those small things that's actually very big. The University of Manitoba has a policy on smudging: the Aboriginal tradition of burning sage, sweetgrass or cedar as a [...]

FOR THE LAST 22 years, Cactus Montreal has doled out needles, crack pipes and other necessities of drug use to the city's addicts. North America's first needle exchange program had [...]

WE ARE CANADA. At 144 years we are neither young nor old, as nations go. And nations do come and do go, it bears remembering. You don't have to be [...]

IT'S ONE OF those conversations where the interviewer starts to think, Whoa, dude, too much info. Jonathon Conte is 29, an employee in San Francisco's service industry, and an ardent [...]

SHE WORE A tiara borrowed from her new grandmother, and diamond drop earrings, a wedding gift from her beloved parents, and that dress, which so perfectly captured the spirit of [...]

ON JAN. 26, Maclean's is hosting 'Health Care in Canada: Time to Rebuild Medicare,' a town hail discussion at the Sir James Dunn Theatre, Dalhousie University, Halifax. The event, in [...]

NEWSMAKER OF THE YEAR SIDNEY CROSBY RENE FASEL IS a small, brusque man whose greatest virtue--candour--is also his greatest flaw. The head of the International Ice Hockey Federation has more [...]

DARREN MUNCH was shot multiple times in the middle of an August Saturday afternoon, in Prince George, B.C. The 25-year-old staggered to the middle of residential Oak Street where he [...]

IF HARD CRIMINALS do soft time in Canada, as the federal Conservative government insists, then John Virgil Punko seems a poster boy for all that's wrong with the judicial system. [...]

AT THE END of one of the royal couple's many trips to Canada, a well-meaning if unimaginative official asked Prince Philip, duke of Edinburgh: 'How was your flight?' It's the [...]

It probably wasn't the way Charles Hamelin envisioned redeeming himself at the Olympics--not exactly, anyway--but as he and his teammates know all too well, there is no such thing as [...]

There are tides and rhythms to an event that spans 17 days and includes 82 countries--an event so large it is capable of altering the emotional climate of a city, [...]

In early December, Bob Joncas, the high-performance manager for the Canadian Snowboard Federation, boarded a jet for Switzerland. In the cargo hold, rolled into a heavy bag, was the result [...]

An Ontario court judge will soon decide if Canada's prostitution laws should be struck down. In British Columbia, the Supreme Court will decide if laws prohibiting polygamy can still be [...]

Eckhart Tolle--one of the greatest spiritual teachers of our age, or perhaps the anti-Christ in a beige sweater vest-has left the door ajar. He greets you in the foyer of [...]

'A crisis is a terrible thing to waste,' Prime Minister Stephen Harper said last Thursday, as he stood in a Burnaby, B.C., maintenance shed to announce $ 350 million in [...]

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 [...]

The worst job Robert Meggy ever had, bar none, was working as a 'pea-viner' in B.C.'s Fraser Valley. A pea-viner, for the uninitiated, takes the unholy tangle of harvested pea [...]

The medals are awarded in summer, Kyle Hamilton, the captain of Canada's golden boat, was saying at the end of a textbook race on a Beijing Sunday evening--before he was [...]

Spare a kind thought for China's Zhu Qinan. The defending Olympic 10-m air rifle champion won an Olympic silver medal on day four of the Beijing Summer Games. Had he [...]

The call from Victoria police dispatch comes about 11 p.m.: woman with a weapon threatening staff at Gorge Road Hospital. Acting Sgt. Peter Lane responds along with a second police [...]

They came from China and England, from India and Mexico--94 people of every age and race, from 13 countries in all. They arrived this crisp autumn morning at an imposing […]

On the afternoon of Tuesday, Oct. 9, emergency crews raced to the provincial cabinet offices on the Vancouver waterfront after a receptionist's hands were left tingling from a suspicious powder […]

Life is hard. You work in a 'fabric-covered box,' as Dilbert puts it. Some troll in the IT department monitors your every keystroke. Lunch is a greasy slab of pizza […]

Look in the mirror, fellow Canadians. Wink. Give a little wave. Blow a kiss. Odds are you like what you see. Oh, maybe you're not 'hot,' but three in 10 […]

CHLOE IS A TWENTYSOMETHING legal assistant from Toronto, who hopes to go to law school one day. She's interested in kayaking, camping, painting and photography, 'the 'old fashioned' way, with […]

'At 8:46 on the morning of September 11, 2001, the United States became a nation transformed.'--Final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States The Air […]