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LETTERS
Dear MACLEAN'S
MR. RIGHT I have never been a fan of Pierre Poilievre, (“The Ringleader,” April 2022). Looking back on his antics in the House, I recall him to be shrill, loud and self-reverent, always looking to...
BEARINGS
OPENINGS Spring. Massey Hall, Toronto.
By 2018, Massey Hall had lost its sparkle. The opulent concert venue was 124 years old when the board and executive administration closed its doors for a makeover. “The city grew up around Massey...
The donation drive that became a supply line to Ukraine
In early March, organizers at St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Montreal asked for supplies to help Ukrainians under siege by Russia’s invading army. They planned to accept donations for only...
Going full circle
An Alberta man is bringing the joy of Montreal bagels to Korea Wayne Kim fell in love with Montreal bagels from three time zones away. As a teenager in Vancouver, he wasn’t much into the bread-like...
Shakespeare’s playbook
In 1623, seven years after William Shakespeare’s death, his associates printed about 750 copies of what has become one of the world’s most valuable antiquarian books. Known as the First Folio, it...
Rise and fly
Canadians are clamouring to travel somewhere, anywhere, now that pandemic restrictions are lifting. But how do you wake up an airline that’s been asleep for two years? In the spring of 2020, with the...
REAL ESTATE
A whole village of Swiss chalets, nestled in the Rockies No one currently lives in Edelweiss Village in Golden, B.C., but don’t call it abandoned. The property’s owners—descendants of the Swiss...
THE INTERVIEW
Emily St. John Mandel talks with Brian Bethune about the HBO Max adaptation of her novel Station Eleven and why she can’t stop writing books about pandemics
In 2014, the Canadian-American author Emily St. John Mandel was catapulted to fame by her fourth novel, Station Eleven, a remarkable portrayal of a horrific flu pandemic that kills 99 per cent of...
Many Faces Brigitte Cleroux
She faked her credentials and worked as a nurse, treating hundreds of patients in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia. After struggling with painful endometriosis for much of her life, Kayla was...
FEATURES
DAYS OF DESTRUCTION
When Russia invaded Ukraine, Canadian photographer Philip Cheung travelled to Kyiv to capture the historic moment. His poignant images document what it’s like for Ukrainians to watch their world fall...
THE HUNT FOR B.C.’S MOST NOTORIOUS FISHERMAN
Scott Steer made a career flouting Canada’s commercial fishing laws and the officers who enforce them. One dreary night in Vancouver, it all caught up to him. Just before midnight on March 1, 2020,...
Distress Call Distress Call Distress Call
Canada’s emergency medical services are understaffed and overloaded. Who is checking on the paramedics? THERE ARE too many patients: too many people with COVID, people who can’t breathe, people who...
THE HARDEST CLIMB
A group of outdoor adventurers are revolutionizing how their sports treat the survivors of tragic accidents It was supposed to be just another climbing day. On a windless, warm Saturday in September...
IDEAS
EARTH MOTHER
In her arresting new book, Generation Dread, Britt Wray grapples with the ethics and emotions of bearing new life in a dying world The planet is, quite literally, on fire: a third of humanity is now...
THE STORY OF US, STARRING US
The film Framing Agnes, a Sundance award winner that screens at Toronto’s Hot Docs festival this month, features a cast of trans actors who take real case files from a 1958 UCLA sociology study and...
HOW CANADIAN MUSIC BECAME COOL
According to music critic Michael Barclay, Canadian music turned as sharply as the calendar at the dawn of the 21st century, as foreign attention moved from occasional international chart-toppers like...
BEYOND INFINITY
The powerful James Webb telescope is allowing astronomers to time-travel into the universe’s deep, dark past Far off in space, in the middle of the Sword of Orion, just below the mythical hunter’s...
FOR UKRAINE
My mother survived the assaults of Hitler and Stalin on her homeland and advocated for the people of Ukraine for over 20 years. Today, I carry on her work. During the first days of the Russian...
PLAY FOR PAY
As the crypto craze permeates the world of online gaming, playing for fun could become just another bit of nostalgia As I play another turn in Skyweaver, I watch helplessly as my avatar is defeated...
THREE TO READ
THIS IS HOW WE LOVE by Lisa Moore House of Anansi, May 3 The Newfoundland novelist writes characters who specialize in pithy, needle-sharp assessments of one another. But Moore reaches another level...
The urgent need for equitable access to precision oncology for breast cancer
Genomic testing unlocks new options within the oncological care process When Elizabeth Wilson first noticed a lump in her breast, she didn’t think anything of it. She was 33 years old at the time, and...
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