Tag: Best of Maclean’s 2023

A Toronto townhouse painted to look like a rococo French palace. A climate-conscious mountaintop home in B.C. designed to withstand wildfire. A chic and modern tiny home on wheels. This year, Maclean’s featured homes as unique and surprising as the people who live in them. Here, our top Habitat features of 2023. (Photograph by Steven Rankin) “One…

COVID might’ve first kicked the great Canadian real estate scramble into high gear, but in 2023, the mass movement continued. Feeling the squeeze in their square footage and the pinch in their wallets, Ontarians offloaded their overpriced rentals and postage stamp–sized lots in favour of bigger backyards, cheaper mortgages and first-time homeownership out the Atlantic…

Canada’s leading experts propose radical solutions to the country’s biggest problems What can be done to mitigate Canada’s raging forest fires? Deal with our gargantuan food-waste problem? More efficiently track UFOs? This year, Maclean’s asked doctors, engineers, politicians, top tech minds and more to tell us their most ingenious ideas for tackling Canada’s trickiest issues and transform…

In 2023, it became a lot more expensive to live in Canada. Rampant inflation caused grocery prices to surge, forcing more people than ever to rely on food banks to feed their families. An already-crippling housing crisis, meanwhile, got even worse when the Bank of Canada imposed a series of dramatic rate-hikes, creating a nation-wide…

In 2023, Canadians had the tough conversations: on AI, housing, immigration, labour, the opioid crisis, Indigenous sovereignty and other hot and fraught topics. In many cases, we were conversation-starters ourselves—best-sellers, decision-makers, government ground-breakers, tech titans and Hollywood heavy-hitters who got the world talking. Maclean’s was able to chat one-on-one with many of these personalities, with captivating, controversial…

The year’s top deep-dives, on climate change, housing, true crime and more In the past year, Canadians woke up to long-simmering tensions that have finally become too pressing to ignore. These formed the subjects of our best and most popular longform articles. Our writers dove deep into issues like housing affordability, which has become out…