Society

The new pro-choice

When does life—and a doctor’s duty—begin and end? Assisted dying is dredging up the big questions of the abortion debate, for better or worse.

By Cathy Gulli20 min

National

THE O'LEARY QUESTION

‘Mr. Wonderful’ is tops in the polls to lead the Conservatives, but why would he want to?

By Jonathon Gatehouse17 min

National

Trudeau’s very bad day

What a Prime Minister’s loss of composure means for the more serious matters of assisted death and electoral reform in a fractured House of Commons

By JOHN GEDDES11 min

International

Hello Cleveland!

When a run-down city badly in need of a boost won the Republican National Convention, it had no idea it would get Donald J. Trump, and a lot of trouble

By ALLEN ABEL10 min

Books

Praise the Lord and grab the money

Plus a masterful biography of the Romanovs, Siddhartha Mukherjee’s intimate history of the gene, wrestling on the Prairies, and what it means to be brown

By Brian Bethune, MICHAEL TAUBE, SUJAYA DHANVANTARI9 min

This Week

LETTERS

Society

‘HE MADE LEGIONS OF US LOOK GOOD’

Maclean’s staff—past and present—on a beloved executive editor

Art

Another side of Algoma

On the eve of a major Lawren Harris show, an unknown Harris work emerges in far-off Australia

By SARA ANGEL7 min

National

FROM THE ASHES

Emerging from the Fort McMurray fire, Wildrose Leader Brian Jean is determined to prove he is also the new face of conservatism in Alberta

By JASON MARKUSOFF6 min

National

One last big boom

The rebuilding effort will bring a mad rush of activity to Fort McMurray. It can’t come soon enough.

By JASON MARKUSOFF6 min