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MACLEAN’S
The New Old Age
Six ways longevity affects your post-work life CREATED FOR Scotia Wealth Management. Everyone knows 40 is the new 30. But the new aging math is redefining more than just middle age: with Canadians...
THE EDITORIAL
EDITOR’S NOTE
IN THIS ISSUE OF MACLEAN’S I did not have high hopes for Olivia Chow’s Toronto mayoralty. For decades, she’s been a marginal political figure, and I had grown accustomed to seeing her campaign for...
MACLEAN’S
Health care trailblazers
How University Health Network is leading Canada to the forefront of medical innovation From next-generation drugs to advances in AI and robotics, we’re in a golden era of leveraging innovation to help...
THE INTERVIEW
Rick Mercer is on the road again. He’s not done talking to you.
WHEN RICK MERCER, Canada’s favourite satirist son, retired from the rant game in 2018 after a blazing 15-season run of the Rick Mercer Report, he could have gone quietly. For a while, he got into...
SPECIAL INTEREST FEATURE
A Letter to the Decision Makers Whose Decisions Can Impact the Lives of Canadians Living with Cancer, to Those with the Power to Reshape the Landscape of Cancer Care in Canada
Every hour in Canada tells a stark story. Twenty-seven individuals are thrust into the harsh reality of a cancer diagnosis, while ten others succumb to its merciless grip. Each day, 655 Canadians...
THE BIG IDEA
Don’t Fear the Neurochip
I helped to create the world’s first neurochip in 2004. This technology could eventually cure epilepsy, dementia and addiction—if Canada is ready to invest. DURING MY CHILDHOOD SUMMERS IN Pakistan, I...
THE PROSPECT
The Calculating Queen
Canada’s Drag Race alum Kyne Santos teaches TikTokers how to work (with math) KYNE SANTOS’S INTRODUCTION to math was highly practical. His late father, a Filipino immigrant who worked as an engineer...
MODERN LIVING
“Out here, weather is boss”
I’m raising my baby in an off-grid cabin in the Northwest Territories. It’s harder — and more wonderful—than I ever imagined. I MET MY PARTNER, Alex, in Yellowknife in July of 2019. Both of us came to...
THE POWER LIST
The Power List
100 Canadians Shaping the Country in 2024 Let’s face it: Canada is going through a rough patch. More people are living here than ever before at a time when it’s harder to live here than ever before....
01Shai Gilgeous-Alexander BASKETBALL PLAYER
This Olympic-bound basketball star is claiming the title of Canada's next Great One If standing atop the hockey world feels like a Canadian birthright, dominating men’s basketball is another story....
02 Maggie Mac Neil, Summer McIntosh and Penny Oleksiak SWIMMERS
They may just be Canada’s next record-breaking Olympic trinity In Canada, legendary Olympic trios usually come as hockey lines: Lemieux-Yzerman-Kariya delivered us gold in 2002, and Crosby-Iginla-...
01 Marc Miller MINISTER OF IMMIGRATION, REFUGEES AND CITIZENSHIP
He’s reining in a runaway international-student market—and making sure a Canadian degree is still worth something When Marc Miller became minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship last July,...
02François Legault PREMIER, QUEBEC
He’s putting universities on the front lines of Quebec’s language wars François Legault made an enemy out of Quebec’s English universities when he announced last fall that tuition for out-of-province...
01 Hamed Shahbazi FOUNDER AND CEO, WELL HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES
“Private” used to be a dirty word in Canadian health care. Well Health is trying to change that. In 1997, the day after he completed his civil engineering degree at the University of British Columbia,...
02Mark Holland MINISTER OF HEALTH
For adding life-changing drugs to Canada's coverage list For decades, Canada was the only country with universal health care that didn’t also provide universal drug coverage—until now. This past...
01 Tate McRae MUSICIAN
After conquering TikTok, this 21-year-old pop phenomenon is ready to win over the world In September of 2023, Tate McRae’s single “greedy” started a sprint up the charts, hitting No. 1 around the same...
02 Celine Song FILMMAKER
For adding some “com” to her “rom”-heavy past While weaving together Past Lives, her breakout 2023 time-travelling love story, director Celine Song relied on herself as source material, heavily mining...
01 Tiff Macklem GOVERNOR, BANK OF CANADA
He’s damned if he raises interest rates and damned if he doesn’t. Our central banker is the reluctant main character in Canada’s housing drama. In Canada, you can’t escape winter, taxes or, these...
02Sean Fraser MINISTER OF HOUSING, INFRASTRUCTURE AND COMMUNITIES
For cajoling reluctant cities into building more homes When Sean Fraser took over his new ministry last July, he immediately appointed himself national housing cop. As steward of the government’s...
01Sophia Mathur ACTIVIST
Governments are dragging their heels on emissions cuts. In Ontario, this 17-year-old activist is suing over it. Sophia Mathur has been showing up for the environment since she was quite literally in...
02Mark Ang CEO AND CO-FOUNDER, GOBOLT
His EV-powered logistics company is making revolutionary moves Mark Ang tiptoed into the logistics industry during his University of Toronto years, when he and friend Heindrik Bernabe launched a...
01 Yoshua Bengio FOUNDER AND SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR, MILA
As one of the godfathers of AI, Bengio unleashed an age-defining innovation. Now he's trying to tame it. When ChatGPT, DALL-E and other generative AI products went mainstream in 2022, some people...
02Ilya Sutskever CO-FOUNDER AND CHIEF SCIENTIST, OPENAI
For making sure smarter-than-human AI programs stick to our scripts A former protégé of Geoff Hinton’s at the University of Toronto, Sutskever went on to co-found OpenAI, creator of generative AI...
01 Olivia Chow MAYOR, TORONTO
Unwilling to see her city decline, Olivia Chow pressured all levels of government to step up. She has the money to show for it. Lately, a swirling mix of pressure points—unforeseen pandemic costs,...
02Pierre Poilievre LEADER, CONSERVATIVE PARTY OF CANADA
He’s all but guaranteed to take over the PMO There’s little doubt that Pierre Poilievre is going to be Canada’s next prime minister. The only question is when. Until an election is called, Poilievre...
01 Ryan Reynolds ACTOR, PRODUCER AND BUSINESSMAN
He’s pumping out billion-dollar companies alongside his billion-dollar movies Ryan Reynolds never set out to be one of Hollywood’s most bankable venture capitalists. As the story goes, the actor made...
02Tony Staffieri CEO AND PRESIDENT, ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS
For commandeering the biggest telecom deal in Canadian history For the past few years, Rogers has been plagued with family infighting and tabloid-worthy headlines. That’s what makes Tony Staffieri...
01 Anna Sainsbury CEO AND CO-FOUNDER, GEOCOMPLY
She's shoring up a multibillion-dollar online betting industry, and enhancing cybersecurity while she's at it This year’s Super Bowl was the most-watched television event since the moon landing,...
02Tobias Lütke CEO AND CO-FOUNDER, SHOPIFY
He's breaking records at Canada's largest tech company The Canadian tech giant quashed any talk of a post-pandemic slump with a record-setting Black Friday and 26 per cent growth in 2023. This was a...
CULTURE
WATERSHED MOMENTS
A new exhibit chronicles daily Indigenous life in northern Ontario in the ’50s and ’60s JOHN MACFIE GREW UP IN THE 1920S AND ’30S on a family farm in Dunchurch, Ontario, with his father, a...
A SOULFUL REVELATION
CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON Various venues May 15 to July 3 R&B SINGER-SONGWRITER Charlotte Day Wilson had a pinch-me moment in 2019, when HBO’s Euphoria played her soulful track “Work” over a pivotal...
A CITY-WIDE SPECTACLE
CONTACT PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL Toronto May 1 to 31 TORONTO’S 28TH ANNUAL CONTACT FESTIVAL is packed with more than 30 photo exhibitions, videos and mixed-media projects spread across the city’s museums,...
AN INTRICATE TAPESTRY
RADICAL STITCH National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa May 17 to October 20 RADICAL STITCH features textiles, fashion, photography and sculpture—all beadwork made by contemporary Indigenous artists. Among...
A PUNK GREEK TRAGEDY
HADESTOWN Ed Mirvish Theatre, Toronto May 15 to 26 OVER 13 YEARS, American singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell transformed Hadestown from concept album into an off-Broadway show and, finally, into a...
MY ARRIVAL
“I made a banking app to help newcomers build their lives—and credit—in Canada”
My family and I were denied housing, car rentals and even hotel reservations, all because we didn’t have a credit card. By Kingsley Madu I’VE WANTED TO TRAVEL THE WORLD since I was a teenager. In...
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