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EDITOR’S NOTE
IN THIS ISSUE OF MACLEAN’S I had my first kid when I was 31, and the whole experience was overwhelming. I loved being a mom and I loved my job, but juggling them was exhausting. After those first few...
THE EDITORIAL
EDITOR’S NOTE
IN THIS ISSUE OF MACLEAN’S I had my first kid when I was 31, and the whole experience was overwhelming. I loved being a mom and I loved my job, but juggling them was exhausting. After those first few...
THE INTERVIEW
Canadian conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin is the maestro behind Maestro
THE FASTEST WAY to convey the stratospheric significance of conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin within the classical music world is to compare him to Taylor Swift. Let’s just go with “rockstar.” Nézet-...
THE BIG IDEA
Roll Out Open Banking
Canada’s risk-averse banking system is full of potential dangers for customers. WHEN I STARTED WORKING as a policy analyst in Canada’s financial sector a little under a decade ago, I expected to find...
THE PROSPECT
The Art Exhibitionist
North meets West in the expansive, outrageous oeuvre of Inuvialuk artist Kablusiak ARTISTS RUN WILD IN KABLUSIAK’S FAMILY, on both sides. Their childhood homes in Yellowknife, and later Edmonton, were...
THE BUILDING
Mountain Lodging
In remote B.C., Coast Mountain College’s nature-inspired dorm isn’t just a place for pre-class power naps. It’s a home away from home. TERRACE, B.C., IS A RUGGED TOWN a 15-hour drive north of...
MODERN LIVING
Three’s Company
Three years ago, 20-year-old Goodness Ade moved from Nigeria to Ottawa for university. His search for affordable housing led him to Judith Holman and Peter Gahlinger, two retirees with a spare...
MACLEAN’S
Canadian Rare Disease Patients Are Getting Impatient — Here’s Why
The Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders is urging the Canadian government to accelerate its National Strategy for Drugs for Rare Diseases implementation. In 2005, Ontario ombudsman Andre Marin...
Advancements in Research Help Patients With SMA Push New Boundaries
People with SMA once faced a bleak future. Today they’re not only maintaining ability but achieving more than ever before. Few people, including his doctor, could’ve predicted what Ty Durant would be...
How Patient Support Services Bolster Up Canada’s Rare Disease Strategy
Bayshore Specialty Rx is a strategic partner in the implementation of Canada’s new National Strategy for Drugs for Rare Disease. For the 1 in 12 Canadians living with a rare disease and their...
THE GIG
“I’m 80 years old. I don’t know when I’ll retire.”
The unbearably high cost of living in Canada mean I’ve had to work full-time for much longer than I expected. But I’m not the only one. By Bill VanGorder I’M 80 NOW, but I’ve been working pretty...
THE ONE-AND-DONE FAMILY
The One-and-Done Family
A new wave of families are stopping after just one kid. For them, it’s a response to the soaring cost of living and intense demands of parenting. For Canada, it’s a seismic demographic shift that will...
A KILLER AMONG THEM
A Killer Among Them
In early 2022, four Indigenous women went missing in and around downtown Winnipeg. This spring, the man accused of their murders will go on trial. So will the city they all called home. THey began to...
THE HOUSING HERO OF FREDERICTION
The Housing Hero of Fredericton
Marcel LeBrun made millions as a tech tycoon, then funnelled his fortune into 12 Neighbours, a planned community of 99 affordable tiny homes in New Brunswick’s capital. For the city’s unhoused, it’s a...
HABITAT
MIND YOUR MANOR
A Montreal antiques dealer has turned his home into a showroom IN CHÂTEAUGUAY, QUEBEC, on the outskirts of Montreal, stands a 6,500-square-foot Georgian mansion. And though it looks like something out...
MACLEAN’S
The Ottawa Hospital’s Biotherapeutics Manufacturing Centre —a Canadian Leader
The Ottawa Hospital’s Biotherapeutics Manufacturing Centre (BMC) is the most experienced and successful facility of its kind in Canada — and the only one with a track record of both virus and cell...
CULTURE
STREET SPIRIT
A new exhibit looks at 60 years of quirky, poignant street photography from Canadian photojournalist Ian MacEachern AS IAN MACEACHERN WANDERED through the slums of Saint John, New Brunswick, in the...
A FEMINIST ART HISTORY LESSON
MAKING HER MARK Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto March 27 to July 1 THE AGO’S NEW EXHIBIT features more than 230 artifacts from 1400 to 1800—all created by women artists long relegated to the margins...
A NASHVILLE SUPERSTAR
ALLISON RUSSELL: THE RETURNER TOUR Various locations, including the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa and the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto February 23 to March 22...
A CANADIANA EXTRAVAGANZA
TOM THOMSON: NORTH STAR Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton February 17 to May 26 ARTIST TOM THOMSON drowned in Algonquin Park’s Canoe Lake at just 39 years old, three years before the Group of Seven...
MY ARRIVAL
“My family bought a house in Edmonton where we could all live together”
I moved from India to Alberta to live the multigen lifestyle LIVING IN CANADA WAS MY OLDER BROTHER KASH’S DREAM, not mine. We grew up in Delhi, India, and when Kash was in high school, he heard about...
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