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EDITOR’S NOTE
EDITOR’S NOTE
IN THIS ISSUE OF MACLEAN’S I bought my modest semi-detached house in a central Toronto neighbourhood in 2008. My husband and I had moved back to Canada with our toddler son after a year living in...
THE INTERVIEW
Never Have I Ever star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan is doing it for the vibes
IF YOU BELIEVE the early hype, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan rolled off her parents’ couch in Mississauga, Ontario, and into a star-making lead role in Netflix’s hit high school rom-dram Never Have I Ever. It...
HEALTHINSIGHT.CA
Why Advancing IDEA Is Good for Canada’s Life Sciences Sector
To enhance Canada's life sciences sector, embedding inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA) is crucial for fostering innovation and attracting talent. Canada currently ranks among the...
Cell and Gene Therapy — Canada’s Chance To Be a Global Leader in Life Sciences
Canada is well on the way to becoming a global leader in the commercialization, investment, and manufacturing of cell and gene therapies. Canada’s scientific community has a rich legacy of success....
How McMaster Innovation Park Is Advancing Cell and Gene Therapy
McMaster Innovation Park is fostering an innovation ecosystem for life sciences and biotech researchers, entrepreneurs, and ventures. The cell and gene therapy (CGT) sector in Ontario is rapidly...
Amylyx Pharmaceuticals Puts Canadians Living with ALS First
Reflections on progress and urgency from a ‘made in Canada’ biotech focused on progressive neurodegenerative diseases. Time is the enemy of people living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known...
Celebrating 10 Years of AbbVie Leadership
AbbVie celebrating 10 years of making a remarkable impact. AbbVie’s 10th anniversary marks an important milestone. In Canada, over the past decade, the independent biopharmaceutical company has gone...
Improving Canadian Rare Disease Patients' Access to Treatment
Bayshore Specialty Rx is on a mission to help rare disease patients across Canada gain access to the treatments they need. For individuals with a rare disease, timely access to treatments can be life-...
Novartis Invests in the Montréal Health Innovation District to Foster a New Wave of Healthcare Partnerships
The launch of Novartis’ new Montréal head office heralds a renewed commitment to collaboration and innovation within Canada. Novartis Canada is on a mission to reimagine medicine to improve and extend...
How Ontario Is Leading the Way in the Medical Isotopes Field
Ontario-based Laurentis Energy Partners is an innovative leader and producer of medical isotopes, which are transforming global health care. What do nuclear power and health care have in common? A...
THE BIG IDEA
Label AI-Generated Content
Artificially intelligent tools are now able to create text, speech, art and video as well as humans can. We need to know who made what. IT USED TO BE FAIRLY EASY to tell when a machine had a hand in...
DAYCARE DIARIES
Having It All
I couldn’t afford to stay home from work. Finding childcare for my son in B.C. cost me a lot more than money. IN 2015, MY HUSBAND and I moved from Ottawa to Vancouver, where he’d landed his dream job...
THE PROSPECT
The Hoop Dreamer
Basketball wasn’t Laeticia Amihere’s original game plan, but she was too good not to become a champion WHEN LAETICIA AMIHERE WAS A KID, complete strangers would stop her on the street to ask if she...
THE BUILDING
The Need for Speed
This summer, Formula One fans will watch cars scorch around Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in record time. Its new paddock came together just as quickly. AT FULL TILT, Formula One cars can top 300...
COVER STORY
THE END OF HOMEOWN E ERSHIP
For generations, middle-class Canadians have been sold on the promise of homeownership. The promise was always flawed. Today it’s simply broken. I was born in Vancouver in 1987, and I’ve lived here...
FEATURES
Betting My Life A memoir of addiction, desperation and the dangers of sports betting by Noah Vineberg
I placed my first wager when I was 10, on a Leafs-Habs hockey game. Over the years, I gambled more than $1 million, risking my health and family in the process. For the past 20 years, I’ve been a...
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Access to Immunotherapy for Hard-to-Treat Lymphoma Improving
Now widely available across Canada as a third-line treatment for B-cell lymphomas, CAR T focus now on second-line treatment. Researchers in cancer medicine have been studying immuno-therapies for...
FEATURES
A DEADLY LOVE
Ashley Wadsworth spent years building an online romance with a young Englishman. Months after they met in person, he killed her—and her family learned of his dark past. Why did no one stop him? At 12...
HABITAT
RETRO FEVER
The ’70s are back in this Quebec couple’s unique vintage home IN 2019, MARTIN DUMAS, a graphic designer, and his partner, Maude Beaupré, a TV producer, were feeling cramped. They had been renting a...
CULTURE
THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF CANADA’S WEIRDEST FAST-FOOD FRANCHISE
How a failed McDonald’s knock-off became a fast-food success for generations of Lebanese-Canadian immigrants in Alberta IF YOU DIDN’T GROW UP in Alberta, you’ve probably never heard of Burger Baron....
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Are Your Employees Flourishing at Work? Here's How to Help
When employees are supported and empowered in the workplace, they’re much more likely to flourish — both at work and outside it. Great Place to Work, the world leader in workplace assessment, recently...
How Manulife Is Transforming Employee Health through Proactive Care
Manulife is helping Canadian workers to navigate an often complex and increasingly stretched health care system using a preventative health approach. Manulife Group Benefits isn’t just about paying...
A SPECIAL INTEREST SECTION BY MEDIAPLANET
Health Trends Employers Need To Watch
Manulife curated this infographic in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic Canada. Understanding health trends and the needs of your team, allows you to invest wisely in your benefits and invest in the...
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Beyond Buzzwords: Diversity and Inclusion Are Key to Economic Success
Inclusive workplaces benefit everyone socially, culturally, and economically. In 2017, the Canada Survey on Disability found that 6.2 million Canadians ages 15 and older had a disability, with 20 per...
Investing in a Healthy Workforce Will Lead to a Successful Business
Invest in employee well-being, create a purpose-driven workplace, prioritize mental health, and thrive in the future of work. We have had a myriad of challenges across the globe, including some...
Failure Isn’t Fatal: A First-Hand Employee Wellness Journey and Call To Action for Leaders
Businesses must embrace authenticity and transparency, supporting mental health and flexible work. Businesses too often uphold a public-facing employer identity rooted in innate perfection and...
New App Helps People With Intellectual Disabilities and Autism Spectrum Disorder Succeed In The Workplace
The Routine Factory app provides structure and predictability to people with intellectual disabilities by offering an easier way to track job tasks. For individuals with intellectual disabilities and...
CULTURE
HOMEWARD BOUND
After tragedy struck, photojournalist Darren Calabrese documented his return to the East Coast in a new book EVER SINCE DARREN CALABRESE WAS A CHILD, his mother told him that one day he’d have to...
A PUNK FASHION ICON’S ARTISTIC LEGACY
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN: ART MEETS FASHION Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec City Until September 10 THE CAPTIVATING BUT TROUBLED British designer Alexander McQueen was known for his punk...
A PLASTIC-TASTIC SATIRE
BARBIE July 21 THE MUCH-HYPED, HOT-PINK Barbie finally, finally, arrives smack dab in the middle of roller-blading and beach season. What could have been a silly kid’s flick was transformed...
AN ARTIST’S FAMILY TREE
THE BLACK CANADIANS (AFTER COOKE) Deanna Bowen National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Opens mid-July IN 17 PANELS PROJECTED onto the National Gallery’s facade, Deanna Bowen’s exhibit charts five...
AN IRREVERENT CLASSICAL MUSIC FESTIVAL
TORONTO SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL Various locations July 5 to 29 THIS JOYFUL FEST OFFERS 24 packed days of performances from classical artists interpreting this year’s theme: metamorphosis. Headliners...
“I had no opportunities at home in Japan. My world opened up when I got to Canada.”
I didn’t realize it was possible to raise a family and have a thriving career WHEN I WAS A KID IN JAPAN IN THE EARLY ’90S, my kindergarten teacher asked my class what we wanted to be when we grew up....
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