THE YEAR AHEAD
Our annual look at what’s coming your way in 2023
This special issue is chock full of predictions on what to expect this year—for better or worse— in science, technology, politics, real estate, society, education, the environment, health, food and culture. From drone delivery services to political battlegrounds, online degree certification to vegan seafood, the Maclean’s Year Ahead issue is a rollicking road map to Canada’s near future.

THE BIG IDEA
Businesses that foster a sense of belonging for their employees will thrive..

THE BIG IDEA
How neurochips developed right here in Canada could change millions of lives.

THE PROSPECT
Canada’s Drag Race alum Kyne Santos turns TikTok users into math whizzes.

THE BUILDING
Winnipeg’s revamped conservatory, the Leaf, is a spiral-roofed sanctuary filled with rare greenery..

A Quebec Elegy
The province is waging war on anglophones like me. A dispatch from the front lines of the new French revolution.
BY MARK MANN

THE PROSPECT
Tennis prodigy Gabriel Diallo is drawing comparisons to other young Canadian greats. Look out, Milos.

Killer in the Shadows
In 2022, Jeremy Skibicki, a white supremacist with a history of violence, allegedly killed four Indigenous women in Winnipeg. How did the authorities miss his red flags?
BY RACHEL BROWNE

The Good Neighbour
Software tycoon Marcel LeBrun has funnelled his fortune into 12 Neighbours, a community of 99 tiny homes for unhoused people in New Brunswick.
BY SARAH TRELEAVEN

THE BIG IDEA
Canadian cities aren’t built to absorb the coming storms. So let’s make them spongier.

THE PROSPECT
For fashion designer Paolina Russo, it’s always sweater weather.

HABITAT
A Toronto couple move to Prince Edward County, where they build a sleek, art-filled home for retirement..

Revenge of the Renters
What can a tenant do about rent spikes, profit-hungry landlords and a brutal housing market? Go on strike.
BY JASON MCBRIDE

The False Prophet
For 25 years, spiritual leader John de Ruiter has been cultivating a global following from his Edmonton compound. A spate of sexual assault charges have revealed the guru’s dark secrets.
BY LUC RINAL

Machine Learnings
We asked 14 leading thinkers to investigate the promises and pitfalls of the fast-accelerating AI revolution. Here’s what they found.

THE BIG IDEA
Waste not: how Canadians can throw out way less food.

Canada’s Best Universities
We crunched the numbers so you don’t have to. Which schools came out on top this year?

The Wildest Rose
Danielle Smith rode to victory on a wave of grassroots rage. Will it also be her undoing?
BY LUC RINALDI

THE BIG IDEA
Bacteria are rapidly figuring out how to dodge antibiotics, but a new biological weapon is on its way: phage therapy..

Canada in 2060
We’re already feeling the heat from climate change. What will our country look like 40 years from now?
BY ANNE SHIBATA CASSELMAN

Point Break
A beach-eating mega-mansion at P.E.I.’s Point Deroche has enraged locals. Don’t beaches belong to all of us?
BY SARAH TRELEAVEN

Epic Fail
Video game companies are facing their toughest boss fight yet: angry parents.
BY LUC RINALDI

THE BIG IDEA
Indigenous firekeepers know how to slow down Canada’s onslaught of wildfires: preventative burns..

The End of Homeownership
What happens to a country when its young people can’t buy houses?
BY MICHELLE CYCA

THE BIG IDEA
Generative AI is already leaking into the media. The next step: labelling it.

THE PROSPECT
Laeticia Amihere is towering over the WNBA.

THE BUILDING
Montreal’s new Formula One paddock was built in a flash..

The Best Places to Eat in Canada
For Maclean’s, Chris Nuttall-Smith went coast-to-coast looking for the best restaurants in Canada’s much-changed dining scene. Here, in vivid detail, are his 20 favourites.

THE GIG
Thousands of patients. Very little help. Meet the lone doctor of Verona, Ontario.

The sports stars thriving on the world stage.

Canadian innovators turning AI into reality.

“ In Defence of Gen Z BY STEPHANIE BAI My generation
values work-life balance over hustle culture. You call it lazy. We call it smart.”

Under the Mat
Inside the toxic world of elite gymnastics.
BY LAUREN MCKEON

THE PROSPECT
Anika Sawni’s non-alcoholic drinks company, Grüvi, is tapping a growing market of Gen Z teetotallers..

Panic Room
One doctor’s experience on the front lines of the ER crisis.
BY ALAN DRUMMOND

THE GIG
How death doula Kayla Moryoussef helps people through their last days.

THE BIG IDEA
Airships are back. Forget about the Hindenburg—these ones are safe, green and pretty delightful.

THE PROSPECT
Sarah Polley went out of her way to write rising star Shayla Brown into the Women Talking script..

THE BIG IDEA
AI and robotics are going to shake up Canadian agriculture and empower farmers

World Cup Fever
The Canadian men’s soccer team is back in the big time after 36 long years. Here are all the reasons to be optimistic.

Mistaken Identity
Universities are racing to hire Indigenous staff—but not everyone is who they say they are
BY MICHELLE CYCA


THE BIG IDEA
How hiring physician assistants could help overburdened family doctors.

Money talk
Eleven big thinkers answer all your thorny questions about Canada’s messed-up economy.

Physician, heal thyself
Debt. Crippling overhead. Paperwork until 2 a.m. No wonder Canada is running out of family doctors.
BY KRISTI HERRLING

THE BIG IDEA
A tax on million-dollar homes would create a seed fund for new housing.

Scorched
The age of the wildfire has arrived on the West Coast.
BY JASON McBRIDE

THE BIG IDEA
The malls of the future are multifunctional, interactive community hubs.

THE PROSPECT
Shaedon Sharpe is one of the NBA’s top draft prospects—and he’s never even played a minute of college basketball.

THE BIG IDEA
Vehicles aren’t enough. We have to electrify everything.

Match Point
Montreal’s Félix Auger-Aliassime has entered tennis’s highest ranks. His next big challenge? Staying there. Plus: the hottest Canadian players, the up-and-comers and the coach who made it all happen. 

THE PROSPECT
Siphesihle November is ballet’s next big star..

The nurse who wasn’t
Brigitte Cleroux spent decades working in hospitals and clinics—despite having no qualifications for the job. Why didn’t anyone stop her?
SARAH TRELEAVEN

A country in ruins
The Canadian photographer PHILIP CHEUNG documented the horrors of the war in Ukraine—and the resilience of its people..

Why Is Pierre Poilievre So Angry?
How the leader of the anti-Trudeau mob is reshaping the Conservative Party
BY SHANNON PROUDFOOT

The Power List
The 50 makers and breakers who are setting the agenda for Canada 

BEARINGS
The Mona Lisa of monster trucks, when Irish isles aren’t smiling, what Frida Kahlo didn’t say, a goalie mask with meaning, tattletale cars, plug-in snowmobiles and more...

The next virus: American lies and misinformation.

KATHLEEN WYNNE ON HATERS AND HER POLITICAL LEGACY.

THE UNBEARABLE BEAUTY OF LINDA EVANGELISTA.

2022 The Year Ahead - What to expect as the pandemic recedes, the planet keeps warming and our political leaders
navigate a profoundly changed world.

BEARINGS - Canada’s coolest hotel, straining cats and docs,
the seeds of a Yukon legend, an abundance of lemmings,
the moose wonderful sign of the year and more...

Escape from Kabul
The photo of a baby being lifted over an airport wall became the defining image of America abandoning its longest war. This is his story.
SHANNON GORMLEY

BEARINGS
Calgary’s scenery-chewing camels, Justin Trudeau’s Tofino refuge, the flying Santa of Nunavik, the debate question that shook the election and more...

Behold the Justinian era
Trudeau’s third consecutive election win was a rare and impressive feat. Why, then, do so many Canadians feel the country is no better off for having dragged itself through the campaign?
PAUL WELLS

A force for peace
With little fanfare, Canada’s Ilwad Elman has become a powerful voice for stability and social justice in troubled Somalia.
MICHELLE SHEPHARD

Tumbling into anger
It doesn’t take much to cast stressed-out people into spirals of irrational fury. Calling an election in the throes of a fourth pandemic wave proved more than enough.
SHANNON PROUDFOOT

Extending family
Some couples are choosing to donate unused frozen embryos, rather than leaving them in indefinite cryopreservation. Now both donors and recipients are navigating what kinship really means.
JOANNA LONG

The search for David Lightning
A Cree elder’s quest to find his brother’s resting place spanned generations, and now lights the way in the hunt for the unmarked graves of residential school students.
JASON MARKUSOFF

Saving narwhals
Researchers warn that the underwater din made by ships serving a Baffin Island mine threatens one of the most distinctive creatures on the planet, which needs quiet to communicate.
BILL DONAHUE

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