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EDITOR’S NOTE
EDITOR’S NOTE
IN THIS ISSUE OF MACLEAN’S Canada has a demographics problem. By 2030, nearly a quarter of the population will have aged out of the workforce. We have a relatively low birth rate and a ballooning...
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New Alzheimer’s Research Yields Positive Results, Bringing Fresh Hope
A promising new discovery in Alzheimer’s disease treatment represents a rare win in a notoriously challenging field. Emerging Alzheimer’s treatment research is giving new hope to people living with...
THE INTERVIEW
Supreme Court Justice Michelle O’Bonsawin is no Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She’s just fine with that.
IN A WORLD OF AMY CONEY BARRETTS and Brett Kavanaughs, Michelle O’Bonsawin was intent on keeping a low profile. Then in September, O’Bonsawin, a 48-year-old mother of two, was appointed the first...
THE BIG IDEA
Make workplaces welcoming
To combat the isolating effects of working from home, businesses need to create a sense of belonging. THERE’S MUCH TO LOVE about remote work. You can accomplish a lot from the comfort of your own...
THE PROSPECT
The Green Queen
Ottawa teen Naila Moloo is developing a newer, sleeker solar panel and a plant-based plastic WHEN NAILA MOLOO delivered a TEDx Talk on climate-saving tech last February, the inventions she name-...
THE BUILDING
Block Party
With 540,000 square feet of coveted Vancouver office space and one killer patio, the Stack is the epitome of work-life balance THESE DAYS, COMPANIES WON’T BE ABLE to entice their employees back to the...
THE YEAR AHEAD 2023
2023 The Year Ahead
Early 2022 carried the promise of a JOYFUL, back-to-normal-ish post-COVID life. Then a tsunami of gloomy news dampened our optimism: inflation, climate disasters, the brutal Russian assault on...
Science & Technology
Electric cars aren’t the only innovation on the block—though they’ll get a serious boost in 2023. Canada’s got a whack of shiny new tech coming down the pipe: delivery drones, lightning-fast internet...
We’ll do more of our banking and shopping on the blockchain
HOW THE NEXT ITERATION OF THE INTERNET WILL CHANGE OUR LIVES When the internet was first created, we never could have predicted how ubiquitous it would become. We had no idea it would lead to email,...
Pierre Poilievre will try to broaden his base—and we’ll all benefit
HOW CANADA’S MOST DIVISIVE LEADER COULD REINVIGORATE OUR DEMOCRACY Something needs to change in Canada this year. Right now, there’s a pervasive feeling that you’re betraying your political allies if...
More than 465,000 people will move to Canada in 2023. We aren’t ready.
WE NEED TO LEVERAGE OUR SKILLED WORKERS IF WE’RE GOING TO AVOID A LABOUR CRISIS Canada could be heading toward a population crisis. We’re getting older. Our birth rates are too low— 10.15 per 1,000...
Real Estate
Despite plunging property prices, housing costs will stay in the stratosphere due to rising rents and interest rates. Grassroots solutions—like community land trusts and modular buildings—point to a...
Rent-to-own will transform how Canadians buy and sell homes
ARCHAIC RULES KEEP HOMEOWNERSHIP OUT OF REACH FOR MILLIONS. THAT’S ABOUT TO CHANGE. We’re entering 2023 with a broken housing market. Nationwide supply is low, interest rates are rising and inflation...
Big-city downtowns won’t recover from their pandemic slumps—yet
THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT FOR POST-PANDEMIC CITIES, BUT IT WON’T LOOK LIKE THE PAST In some of Canada’s biggest cities, downtown activity isn’t likely to return to pre-pandemic levels in 2023. My recent...
More ERs will close and more doctors will burn out
WITHOUT A VIABLE NATIONAL STRATEGY, CANADA’S HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO COLLAPSE Most Canadians have only become aware of the country’s severe health-care labour shortage within the last two...
We’re due for another global health emergency
COVID WASN’T THE LAST LARGE-SCALE OUTBREAK. THE NEXT ONE IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER. In the last two decades, the world has experienced an alarming number of destructive outbreaks: SARS, MERS, Ebola,...
Environment
The outlook for Earth in 2023 is bleak. The Arctic permafrost is melting, heatwaves and floods threaten our homes, and invasive species are setting up camp. The good news: renewable energies are on...
Alberta will be completely off coal by the end of 2023
HOW THE PROVINCE BECAME CANADA’S GREEN ENERGY LEADER When it comes to energy production, our country is at a crossroads. The climate crisis is becoming increasingly urgent: global warming could be...
Netflix and YouTube will balk at restrictive CanCon rules
IN THE FACE OF CONFUSING NEW LEGISLATION, STREAMING COMPANIES AND INFLUENCERS WILL TAKE THEIR BUSINESS ELSEWHERE My specialty is the intersection between law, technology and policy. This work has...
LOYALTY & REWARDS
Make the Most of Every Adventure with The Planet D Travel Guide
Maximize your next trip with travel tips from Dave and Deb, founders of the award-winning travel blog The Planet D. How do you feel the leisure industry has changed or evolved post-pandemic? We’ve...
How the AIR MILES® Reward Program Is Supporting Millions of Canadians with Enhanced Earning Potential
An effective loyalty program is key for Canadians looking to get more out of every dollar spent. Throughout 2022, the increased pressures of inflation and the rising cost of living are putting...
The Evolution of Loyalty Programs through the Pandemic
Patrick Sojka, Founder, RewardsCanada.ca When the pandemic hit in 2020, we saw loyalty programs shift priorities and focus on keeping their members engaged without flying, staying in hotels, or...
Earn Rewards Every Day with the Expanded Scene+ Rewards Program
Once rooted in entertainment, SCENE has now grown into Scene+, a broad lifestyle rewards program with grocery, travel, and shopping partners. A series of exciting new partnerships has catapulted...
THE TREND
STARTING FROM SCRAPS
The zero-waste movement gives fine dining a sustainable and thrifty twist. THERE ARE FEW DISHES as luscious as a tomato salad at the height of the season. At the Acorn, a haute vegetarian restaurant...
CULTURE
SONGS OF UNREST
In his latest exhibition, artist Stan Douglas meticulously reconstructs moments of political upheaval EARLIER THIS YEAR, THE VANCOUVER-BORN VISUAL ARTIST STAN Douglas represented Canada at the Venice...
A MID-CENTURY MASTER
REVELATIONS Montreal Museum of Fine Arts To March 26 FAMED FRENCH-CANADIAN printmaker Albert Dumouchel spent roughly three decades evolving his craft to reflect rapid social changes in Quebec from the...
AN UNFORGETTABLE ALBUM
REMEMBER NEVER BEFORE July Talk January 20 IN OCTOBER, alt-rock band July Talk went into their set at Toronto’s Horseshoe Tavern with a big announcement: their fourth studio album, Remember Never...
A DIARY OF DIVORCE
REALLY GOOD, ACTUALLY Monica Heisey January 17 IN A DEBUT NOVEL loosely based on her own life, Monica Heisey—a Toronto-born comedian and former writer for Schitt’s Creek—offers a bittersweet satirical...
A SMALL-TOWN MURDER
THREE PINES Amazon Prime December 2 CANADA’S ANSWER TO Hercule Poirot is Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, the gentlemanly hero of Louise Penny’s wildly popular Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series,...
A LITERARY NIGHTMARE
BAD CREE Jessica Johns January 10 JESSICA JOHNS, a member of Sucker Creek First Nation and the former managing editor of the feminist literary journal Room, pulls off two remarkable literary feats in...
CREATED FOR VERITAS FOUNDATION
No time for complacency as charities emerge from pandemic hibernation: Analysis
MANY PEOPLE IN Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside can see a path out of poverty. They just don’t have the right shoes to walk it. That’s where the Working Gear Clothing Society comes in. Founded in 2007...
Pandemic’s devastating effects on seniors help drive donations to long-term care
AS CANADIANS WATCHED the pandemic tear through long-term care homes, many were prompted to donate to charities focused on seniors care, which have traditionally struggled for attention, say experts in...
Windmill grows donations with metrics that meet backers’ demands
NISHANT GOSWAMI EARNED a dentistry degree in 2000, and had his own practice in Delhi, India. But when he moved to Canada in 2012 to reunite with his wife, he found himself working low-paying retail...
MY ARRIVAL
“I saw the devastation of climate change in Pakistan. I knew something needed to be done here too.”
Canada is a leader in green energy. I hope more immigrants will come to help realize our goals. By Ali Husnain I SEND MY MOTHER SO MANY VIDEOS of the snow in Canada. I never saw it back home in...
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