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EDITOR’S NOTE
IN THIS ISSUE OF MACLEAN’S A surprising number of my friends now live in St. Catharines, Ontario—a small city in the Niagara wine region, about a two hours’ drive south of Toronto. It’s a classic...
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EDITOR’S NOTE
EDITOR’S NOTE
IN THIS ISSUE OF MACLEAN’S A surprising number of my friends now live in St. Catharines, Ontario—a small city in the Niagara wine region, about a two hours’ drive south of Toronto. It’s a classic...
THE INTERVIEW
Beverley McLachlin, ex–chief justice and bestselling author, is keeping her eye on the world’s legal drama
DURING BEVERLEY MCLACHLIN’S 28 history-making years on Canada’s Supreme Court bench, she ruled on laws that created a quantum forward leap in the state of human rights in Canada—for Indigenous people,...
THE BIG IDEA
Log Off To Find Love
Apps have gamified meeting and mating—and affected our social skills for the worse. The real future of dating is offline. IN 2017, AFTER BEING SINGLE for a few years, I wanted to get back into the...
THE PROSPECT
The Internet Oddball
How comedianVeronika Slowikowskagot all of TikTok in on her jokes GROWING UP IN BARRIE, ONTARIO, in the early 2000s, Veronika Slowikowska shared a sense of humour with era-defining weirdo comedies...
THE BUILDING
Green Scene
Montreal’s Théâtre de Verdure stages plays and musical performances against a naturally beautiful backdrop THÉÂTRE DE VERDURE is a setting straight out of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s...
Substance Use Awareness How Much Is Too Much? Making Informed Choices About Alcohol and Cannabis
Explore how changing your relationship with alcohol and cannabis can enhance your life. For both alcohol and cannabis, the health risks involved go up the more you consume. For example, consuming more...
Unaware and Underserved: The Silence Behind Substance Use Health Harms Us All
Substance use continues to be an outlier in the Canadian health care system, and it affects more of us than you think. Brianne Peters, Research Specialist, CAPSA In Canada, we have a collective...
MODERN LIVING
Bill of Health
I spent years with excruciating hip pain, languishing in Canada’s health-care queue. I finally paid for private surgery—in Lithuania. MY HIP PAIN STARTED AROUND 2015, when I was in my mid-30s. It...
COVER STORY
BEST PLACES TO LIVE
THE BAD NEWS: OWNING A HOME in one of Canada’s marquee cities is now largely the purview of millionaires. In Toronto, a typical home goes for nearly $1.1 million, while the price of admission in...
The Seaside Charmer Charlottetown, P.E.I.
CHARLOTTETOWN, ONE OF THE FASTEST-GROWING cities in the country, is getting a makeover in real time. An unprecedented influx of immigrants and urbanites escaping larger hubs has helped P.E.I.’s...
The Eastern Tech Hub Halifax, Nova Scotia
LET’S FACE IT: Halifax is no longer Canada’s best-kept real estate secret. Five years ago, only the super-savvy knew to trade their Toronto condos for detached homes in the Maritimes’ largest economic...
The Riverside Rebound St. Catharines, Ontario
LIKE MANY A MID-SIZED CANADIAN CITY, St. Catharines slumped through the last half-century. General Motors, the biggest employer, scaled back operations, the downtown hollowed out and the city’s...
The French Connection Quebec City, Quebec
TO THE NAKED EYE, QUEBEC IS AN OLD-WORLD CITY, packed with neoclassical design, grand monuments and cobblestone streets. But in the last few decades, it’s taken a turn toward the ultra-modern. Quebec...
The Northern Exposure Edmonton, Alberta
IN 2020, EDMONTON’S POPULATION officially crossed the million-person mark, making it the northernmost city of that population in North America. It now sits at 1.14 million residents—more than 10 per...
The Quantum Capital Sherbrooke, Quebec RECENTLY LISTED 717 Rue de la Victoire
Price tag: $465,000 The place: A three-bedroom, two-bathroom house in the Rock Forest neighbourhood with a large workshop in the finished basement SURROUNDED BY THE QUAINT VILLAGES of Quebec’s Eastern...
The Renaissance City Kingston, Ontario
RECENTLY LISTED 797 Old Colony Road Price tag: $590,000 The place: A three-bedroom home with a private yard and a new kitchen IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, Kingston has been on the kind of epic...
The Maritime Bargain Fredericton, New Brunswick RECENTLY LISTED 201 Sunset Drive
Price tag: $389,900 The place: A four-bedroom home on a double lot with a large kitchen and proximity to the soon-to-be-built McAdam elementary school HOMES ON THE EAST COAST are generally cheaper...
The Buzzy Border Town Windsor, Ontario RECENTLY LISTED 1347 Windermere Road
Price tag: $379,900 The place: A three-bedroom home in the Walkerville neighbourhood with hardwood floors, a sun room and and an open-concept layout A HALF-DOZEN YEARS AGO, Windsor had some of the...
The Prairie Pick Regina, Saskatchewan RECENTLY LISTED 3411 McCallum Avenue
Price tag: $249,900 The place: A two-bedroom home with a large backyard, across the street from the recently revamped Lakeview Park AFTER BOTTOMING OUT in recent years, Saskatchewan’s agricultural...
FEATURES
So You’ve Been _Hacked
A new generation of ultra-sophisticated cybercriminals are targeting governments, corporations, hospitals and libraries—and laying bare how ill-equipped Canada is to fight back 0 n a July morning in...
Whole Lotta L ❤ ve
Polyamory is suddenly everywhere—and it’s changing the face of love, marriage and even child-rearing. Five intimate stories of non-monogamy. For proof of polyamory’s move into the Canadian mainstream,...
The Long-Distance Lovers
I discovered polyamory seven years ago, in my mid-40s, quite by accident. Before that, my relationships were standard monogamous pairings: I married at 24, then divorced and...
The Co-Parents
I met Blue in 1996, just after graduating from university. We were never totally exclusive, and about a year into our relationship, we decided we would be polyamorous. I don’t...
The Reformed Monogamists
In 2018, I was separated from my second husband and busy being a mom to my five children. I didn’t have time or energy for anything serious, and I wasn’t looking for anything...
The No-Secrets Polycule
Chris and I have been friends since 2001, when he was still married to, as we lovingly call her, “Wife 1.” I was in an open relationship at the time, and Chris’s marriage was...
HABITAT
FANTASY ISLAND
An heiress lives her Gatsby dreams at her Big Rideau Lake cottage, complete with parties, lobster and champagne HENRIETTA SOUTHAM vividly recalls the Edwardian-style fanfare that signalled summers at...
CULTURE
COUNTRY ROADS
A new book chronicles the decay of a small, rural Alberta town—and the community that persists GROWING UP, Kyler Zeleny had one goal: to leave his hometown of Mundare, Alberta, a sleepy, 900-person...
AN INNOVATIVE SYMPHONY
SONIA BOYCE: FEELING HER WAY Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto September 19 to April 6, 2025 IN 2021, BRITISH ARTIST Sonia Boyce invited four Black female musicians and a composer to Abbey Road Studios...
A VIBRANT RETROSPECTIVE
DENYSE THOMASOS: JUST BEYOND Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax Until September 8 MORE THAN A DECADE AftER DENYSE THOMASOS’ DEATH, she’s finally being recognized for the genius that she was. Born in...
MY ARRIVAL
“The Taliban tried to kill me at 16. Eight years later, I am free in Canada.”
I was persecuted in Afghanistan for teaching English. In Toronto, I became the first person in my family to attend university. I ATTENDED A PRIVATE ENGLISH SCHOOL in the Jaghori District of Ghazni...
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