Interviews

Distinguished former senator and local music legend, Tommy Banks, lends hand to fellow artists

Mayor Don Iveson brings the city together through an initiative that aims to end poverty within a generation

As a young man, Timothy Caulfield had dreams of being a rock star. But in recent years the health-policy professor at the University of Alberta has found a different way of capturing the public’s attention: by writing rigorous yet lively takedowns of all kinds of bogus diets, misleading beauty products and exercise fads. His latest popscience book, Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong about Everything? (Penguin), looks at the increasingly murky intersection between science and celebrity culture.

The successful actor, writer and producer speaks about the challenges she faced growing up, and how her past has influenced her present