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THE EDITORIAL
EDITOR’S NOTE
IN THIS ISSUE OF MACLEAN’S Like many people, I have a love/hate relationship with my iPhone. The little computer I carry in my pocket morning, noon and night is an astonishing piece of technology that...
THE INTERVIEW
Wab Kinew, Manitoba’s first First Nations premier, wants to start with a clean slate
IN EARLY OCTOBER, Manitoba chose Wab Kinew. The leader of the NDP and the son of an Anishinaabe chief, Kinew became the first First Nations premier in the province’s history—breaking a chain of...
THE BIG IDEA
Make cities spongier
Climate change–fuelled flooding threatens to submerge Canadian cities in the coming years. I SPENT THE FIRST DECADE of my life in the United Arab Emirates, one of the driest countries on Earth. I was...
THE PROSPECT
The Knit Pick
Fashion designer Paolina Russo went from suburban blogger to an industry-altering inventor WHEN PAOLINA RUSSO was a teen, every hour she wasn’t at school was focused on fashion. She’d scour thrift...
THE BUILDING
Here’s a Twist
In Vancouver’s sea of steely, boxy skyscrapers, the Alberni tower leans into the greatness of the outdoors VANCOUVER’S SOARING SKYLINE tells the story of Canada’s race to blanket the real estate...
THE YEAR AHEAD 2024
THE YEAR AHEAD 2024
If 2023 was the year of wake-up calls—to the dystopian reality of AI, to the destructive force of climate change, to the challenges plaguing immigration and the cost of living—then 2024 will be the...
More grocery stores will sell lab-grown dairy products
By fermenting milk the way we brew beer, we can disrupt Canada’s dairy industry I’ve been following the development of cellular agriculture for almost a decade. This field produces animal products...
Canada will put the pedal to the metal to become an EV powerhouse
Canada is poised to become a leader in EVs, but we’ll need to move fast Canada has big ambitions to build one of the world’s powerhouse supply chains for EV and battery technology. In 2022, the...
Science + Tech
The AI revolution will transform the way scientists think and do business, while regulators will struggle to keep up. 1 the government will investigate ufos There are close to 1,000 UFO sightings...
Canada will be a key player in the global commercial space race
In 2024, the country will launch payloads (plus an astronaut of our own) into orbit This November, for the first time since the Apollo missions more than 50 years ago, humans will head for the moon....
Canadian film will stay stuck in the past—for now
If we expand our idea of what Canadian film means, we can watch our industry boom It’s been an incredible year for Canadian film. Sarah Polley won an Oscar for Women Talking, Celine Song destroyed the...
Cities will learn to live with encampments
Tent cities are here to stay, thanks to increasing support from the courts Recent research estimates that more than 235,000 Canadians are now homeless. The actual count is almost certainly higher and...
Sport-ticket prices are going to balloon out of reach
As old favourites grow costlier, fans will start seeking new teams and new experiences Any sports fan can tell you that attending games in person is becoming a luxury experience in this country....
Fires will get bigger, faster and hotter—and communities need to prepare
The Earth has a fever, and we’re all feeling the symptoms Back in July, the Earth set a new average temperature record, nudging past 17° C for the first time in recorded human history. Headline-worthy...
The threat of superbugs will loom too large to ignore
Antibiotic-resistant infections threaten our health system. We need urgent action. Several years ago, I contracted a foodborne illness while travelling in Europe. It didn’t respond to oral...
Far-right politics will fuel extremism
Global conflicts are deepening political divisions at home, and Canadians need to fight back Right-wing extremism in Canada has been on an upward trajectory for the past few years. The reasons are...
Boosting Canadians’ employability for the clean economy
How educational institutions across Canada are partnering to deliver job training that bridges skill gaps in equitable and inclusive ways As careers continue to evolve in step with our emerging green...
More Canadian schools will say no to smartphones
Whether distraction or addiction, devices will keep getting kicked out of classrooms I started teaching law, history, business and politics at a Toronto high school in 2007—right after the Toronto...
CULTURE
GRAIN BY GRAIN
Librarian and photographer Sandra Herber captures the Prairies’ stark, iconic grain elevators and churches BY DAY, SANDRA HERBER IS A LIBRARIAN at Humber College in Toronto. But on her time off, she’s...
A META EXHIBIT
SHELLEY NIRO: 500 YEAR ITCH Art Gallery of Hamilton February 10 to May 26 AFTER DEBUTING at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in May, this epic show from the Brantford,...
A BALLET FOR HOPE
NADIYA UKRAINE Ed Mirvish Theatre, Toronto January 23 to January 27 BALLET-LOVERS can show their support for Ukrainians in need by catching the National Ballet of Ukraine’s Canadian tour, titled...
A HIDDEN WORLD IN PHOTOGRAPHS
CASA SUSANNA Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto December 23 to April 14 IN THE ’50S AND ’60S, when cross-dressing was illegal in much of the U.S., a network of outliers met in New York’s Catskills to...
A SHARED ARTISTIC VISION
O’KEEFFE AND MOORE: GIANTS OF MODERN ART Montreal Museum of Fine Arts February 10 to June 2 AMERICAN PAINTER Georgia O’Keeffe and British sculptor Henry Moore were both 20th-century modernists who...
MY ARRIVAL
“I couldn’t see a future as a gay man in Indonesia, so I sought asylum in Canada”
In Toronto, I found a new purpose running an Indonesian restaurant AS EARLY AS FOUR OR FIVE, I knew I was different. I thought the men on TV were handsome, but I was raised to believe that...
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