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The Best of 2025: Maclean’s Top 10 Stories on How to Fix Canada

One happy side effect of Trump’s trade war? It reminded us that we’re not the 51st state—and kickstarted our ambitions to finally behave like a...

Chris Keefer

If 2024 was the year Canada slammed its doors shut to immigrants, 2025 was when the fallout began. At Maclean’s, we heard from students stuck in...

In the last year, Canadians elected our first new leader in a decade, broke up with our closest ally and coped with nationwide economic turmoil....

In the chaos and anxiety of 2025, Canadians are seeking meaning wherever they can—including, more than ever before, in the zodiac. This year,...

I was born into an engineering family: my dad is a civil engineer and works in wastewater management in Burton, New Brunswick, where I grew up. I...

I started working on my first novel, Game Changers, in 2015. I own a promotional-products company in Halifax, so the book was only meant to be a...

In 2025, Canadian families formed into countless configurations—and Maclean’s was there to document them all. By far, the most popular piece in...