Loneliness, unemployment, the tough task of changing traditional ways—these obstacles are undermining the mental health of our million foreign-language immigrants. This searching study suggests some concrete remediesBy SIDNEY KATZ20 min
That’s how veteran pilots describe British Columbia’s “graveyard of lost planes.” In sixteen years it’s claimed a hundred and seventeen lives. But we're licking its hazards with science, discipline and experienceBy RAY GARDNER19 min
After Pearl Harbor nearly every door was slammed in the face of this Canadian-born Japanese. Yet he bounced back into wealth and universal respect. Here s his own story of how he did itBy ARTHUR TATEISHI17 min
Fresh from an Ottawa classroom. Paul Anka brashly offered “Diana” to New York record makers and said he’d sing it himself. Now, less than a year later, he’s grossed $100,000 and has fan clubs he hasn’t even countedBy PAUL A. GARDNER17 min
The eyesores of the Thirties have become picture-windowed, gadget-filled homes for sixty thousand Canadians. They’re helping to open up our frontiers and beat the housing shortage, and maybe some day they’ll even flyBy Christina McCall15 min
is Davie Fuiton, the experts agree, at forty-one justice minister, one of the Commons’ keenest minds and a cabinet Jack-of-all-trades. Even the Liberals show him grudging respect—but he’s a worry to some ToriesBy Peter C. Newman15 min
The lonely mining settlement of Flin Flon set the sports world on its ear last winter by winning a national hockey championship. But that, like the golf course of rock and muskeg and the man-made beach, is only part of the story ofBy TRENT FRAYNE14 min
As a restaurant habitué I’ve dined on everything from Sloppy Joe’s Kosher Irish Stew to autographed lobsters. Dyspeptic but durable, I’ve learned a few tricks. Here’sBy HUGH GARNER11 min
All women who rejoice in the successes of other women — and legend to the contrary, they’re far from non-existent — shared a good deal of pleasure and satisfaction last June when Ellen Fairclough became the first woman cabinet minister in Canadian history.By KATE AITKEN SAYS9 min
It’s tough at the top. That is not an elegant phrase but it has the double merits of brevity and clarity. And the more I study the British political drama the more I wonder that so many men are ready and eager to take upon themselves the burden of high ministerial office.By BEVERLEY BAXTER8 min
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