Inside your teenager’s scary brain
Maclean’s New research shows incredible cognitive potential—and vulnerability—during adolescence. For parents, the stakes couldn’t be higher.
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Islamists won’t kill free speech—we will
‘In my view there is no media outlet in Canada brave enough to allow a full and proper discussion of Islam’ Barbara Amiel Maclean’s (…) The West has been ready to give up on itself for some time now. We have no idea of what we stand for and seem to have no faith…
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The Interview: The psychology of online abusers
Journalist Paula Todd on online abusers, the joy they get from hurting others—and the rise of adult cyberbullies. Maclean’s
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The end of neighbours
How our increasingly closed-off lives are poisoning our politics and endangering our health Brian Bethune Maclean’s In the 1990s, Oxford primatologist and evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar initiated the social brain hypothesis, the idea that humans developed their large brains to cope, not with predators or competitor species, but with themselves. All higher primates spend a…
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‘Medical school rejection violated my Charter rights’ Dans le Maclean’s Woman sued University of Manitoba, province after failing to gain admission
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Corruption in Quebec (The Economist)
Heads start to roll in a Canadian corruption scandal. More may follow . Quebeckers were outraged in 2010 when Maclean’s, a Canadian magazine, labelled their province the most corrupt in the country. True, a Quebec-based scandal had helped to topple the federal government in 2006, and evidence was mounting of bid-rigging and kickbacks in local administrations….