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Maclean's Magazine - August 2025

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In this issue

Passing as Middle Class
Millions of Canadians
work full-time and still struggle to afford a new pair of shoes.How do the working poor keep up?

THE BIG IDEA
How delivery robots can
make our lives easier—
and our cities greener

MODERN LIVING
Inside the AI-powered greenhouse churning out Canadian lettuce year-round

THE TAKE
A national service plan targeting teens can get our military back

THE INTERVIEW

Yves-François Blanchet, leader of the Bloc Québécois, is fending off Trump by backing Canada. He still wants to leave us.

7 mins

Send In the Delivery Robots

In the not-so-distant future, Canadians will share their sidewalks with little computerized couriers. It’s not as dystopian as it sounds. By Sharif Virani

4 mins

Growth Industry

My company opened a fully automated greenhouse north of Toronto to boost Canada's supply of homegrown leafy greens—just in time for the trade war.

5 mins

Canada's Army Needs Youth Recruits

A new national service plan would fill our understaffed military with fit young warriors

5 mins

Theatre Therapy

Live performance offers Canadians an unparalleled antidote to our polarized, distracted culture. We should all put down our phones and take in a show.

4 mins

Confessions of the Working Poor

I work hard, buy quality clothes and know how to fake my way through dinner-party conversations. But behind the scenes, I’m part of a fast-growing Canadian underclass.

10+ mins

The Smart Case for Private Health Care

In Canada’s public system, patients are languishing on wait lists for years. How private competition can save medicare.

10+ mins

THE MAYOR OF THE MANOSPHERE

Chris Pavlovski, the Canadian founder of the video platform Rumble, helped bring MAGA back to the White House. What will he do now that the fringe has become the mainstream?