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EDITOR’S NOTE IN THIS ISSUE OF MACLEAN’S
A few months ago, my teenage son badly sprained his ankle playing basketball. At our emergency department, the doctor couldn’t see a fracture on my son’s X-ray but referred him to an ankle specialist...
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EDITOR’S NOTE
EDITOR’S NOTE IN THIS ISSUE OF MACLEAN’S
A few months ago, my teenage son badly sprained his ankle playing basketball. At our emergency department, the doctor couldn’t see a fracture on my son’s X-ray but referred him to an ankle specialist...
COMMENTS
COMMENTS READERS WEIGH IN
TONGUE-TIED Mark Mann’s April cover story about Quebec’s new language policies touched a nerve. Some readers thought the rhetoric about a war on anglophones was overblown: I wish Mr. Mann had limited...
THE INTERVIEW
In Naheed Nenshi, the Alberta NDP’s leadership frontrunner, Danielle Smith may have met her match
THE MOMENT NAHEED NENSHI entered the Alberta NDP leadership race this past March, he was quickly named the candidate to beat—and the one who could beat Premier Danielle Smith. It didn’t matter that...
Supporting Patient Choice and Access to Eye Therapies
Regardless of their eye condition or disease, older Canadians need access to a range of safe, effective, and appropriate vision care treatments. Retinal diseases like age-related macular degeneration,...
THE BIG IDEA
Create Refugee Reception Centres
Asylum seekers are arriving in Canada in record numbers, sleeping in shelters, churches and sometimes on the street. Reception centres are a more humane approach. By Loly Rico IN 1990, I WAS LIVING...
THE MOVE
Squeeze Play
The Ostranders’ adult daughter moved back home after a run-in with Ontario’s expensive rental market. Finding a new property in New Brunswick—big enough to fit everyone—became a whole-family project....
THE GIG
“I was floating $100,000 in monthly debt”
I run a daycare in Calgary. Canada’s $10-per-day plan is destroying my business. By Sarah Hunter I STARTED WORKING in childcare in 1987, when my mother opened her own centre. I was 18 years old, and I...
PRIVATE HEALTH CARE IS HERE
Private Health Care Is Here
A growing number of Canadians pay out of pocket for MRIs, hip replacements, even family doctor visits. Steven Goluboff has always been an old-school doctor. Over a decades-long career, he’s worked...
Supporting Canadian Caregivers
A New Day is Dawning for Caregivers Across Canada In the darkest days of the pandemic, the struggles of caregivers and care providers were laid bare for all to see — exposing the need for a new...
Empowering the Invisible Heroes: Why Caregiver Support Is Critical
More resources are needed to support caregivers — especially young ones — as they balance the challenges of work, school, and caregiving. As the former First Lady Rosalynn Carter said, “There are only...
Community Resilience through Social Prescribing: Strengthening the Fabric of Care
In our quest for better health and well-being, it's important to recognize the profound impact of interconnected healthcare and social systems. Beyond medical care, social factors play an instrumental...
Understanding the Challenges Facing Canada's 8 Million Caregivers
Canada’s family caregivers take on significant financial strain, along with other challenges associated with caregiving. Canada is home to over eight million unpaid family caregivers who face...
THE ENCAMPMENT WARS
THE ENCAMPMENT WARS
The battle over one tent village in a portside Vancouver park turned it into the city’s only fully legal tent community. What that means for the thousands of Canadians living in encampments...
SOBER NATION
Sober Nation
Canadians are rethinking drinking. It used to be hard to find a decent non-alcoholic drink for grown-ups besides soda and juice. I became acutely aware of this during the summer of 2016, while on my...
HABITAT
VINTAGE VISTA
An Etsy seller fills her lakeside B.C. cottage with secondhand treasures MITZI SHIELDS’ GIG as a seller of vintage fashion and homewares began in 2022, when she spotted a pair of Prada pumps in a...
CULTURE
SMALL BUT MIGHTY
An Edmonton exhibit showcases everyday objects shrunk to dollhouse proportions CANADA IS MAD FOR ALL THINGS MICRO. Carefully designed homes as small as shoeboxes are selling for thousands of dollars,...
MUSIC A BEWITCHING JAZZ SHOW
LAUFEY TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD Icelandic-Chinese singer-songwriter Laufey—pronounced “Lay-vay”—is bringing her classical-jazz-pop blend and confessional lyricism to Ottawa’s premier music event. The...
BOOKS A JONI MITCHELL DEEP DIVE
TRAVELING SINCE THE ECSTATIC RECEPTION to her surprise set at the Newport Folk Festival in 2022—her first live performance in 20 years—and her viral Grammys debut in February, folk icon Joni Mitchell...
MY ARRIVAL
“People blame international students like me for the housing crisis. I’m thinking of leaving.”
My family is spending $100,000 on my tuition alone, but I fear our sacrifices will amount to nothing By Harshit Maann IN LATE 2022, I moved from New Delhi to Thunder Bay, Ontario, as an international...
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