Maclean’s

EDITOR’S NOTE

EDITOR’S NOTE

When Maclean’s creative director Christine Dewairy showed me her design for this month’s cover, featuring a group of protesters on a rent strike, I thought she’d used an archival image. The rally...

COMMENTS

COMMENTS READERS WEIGH IN

PREMIER LEAGUE Luc Rinaldi’s October cover profile of Alberta premier Danielle Smith left readers polarized—just like Smith does herself. Some people were unsettled by her extreme populist positions:...

THE INTERVIEW

Katherine Henderson, Hockey Canada’s new president and CEO, is in cleanup mode—for love of the game

LAST YEAR, HOCKEY CANADA was in hot water. That July, news broke that the organization had pulled money from its National Equity Fund—which includes player registration fees—to settle an alleged...

THE BIG IDEA

Take UFOs seriously

Whether you call them UFOs, UAPs or flying saucers, Canada should treat the objects that fly in our skies as scientific phenomena, not pop-cultural quackery By Chris Rutkowski MOST KIDS GO THROUGH a...

THE PROSPECT

The Running Man

Connor Emeny is the youngest person to finish Ironman triathlons on six continents. Next stop: Antarctica. CONNOR EMENY WAS ALWAYS up for a challenge. Soccer, Ping-Pong, chess club—no game went...

THE BUILDING

State of the Art

Don’t let the imposing columns outside Fredericton’s Beaverbrook Art Gallery fool you—its new expansion is a cozy communal space for the city’s art lovers THE BEAVERBROOK ART GALLERY in Fredericton...

THE MOVE

Coastal Calling

Dalene and Pete Heck were happy globetrotters until health issues brought them back home. They settled on a century-old former parsonage in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley. The buyers: Dalene Heck,...

COVER STORY

REVENGE OF THE RENTER

HUNDREDS OF TENANTS, STRUGGLING TO AFFORD SKYROCKETING RENTS, SHARLENE HENRY moved into 33 King Street, a 27-storey apartment building in Toronto’s Weston neighborhood, 20 years ago. She was 30 years...

FEATURES

HABITAT

A TASTE OF EUROPE

This hand-painted Victorian home brings old-fashioned opulence to downtown Toronto ARTIST EVE GORDON will never forget the grandiose European designs she saw during her summer in France in the 1970s....

CULTURE

NORTHERN LIGHT

A new book chronicles the Canadian Arctic expeditions of photographer Richard Harrington, who documented the Inuit’s disappearing way of life ON AN ASSIGNMENT for the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1946, the...

MY ARRIVAL

“I was almost arrested for my activism in Hong Kong. I fled to Vancouver for refuge.”

I can see a life for myself here, but I still miss the city where I grew up I WAS BORN IN HONG KONG IN 1994, back when it was still a British colony. When I was three years old, Britain returned the...