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I invented the world’s first brain chip. It can cure epilepsy, dementia, chronic pain and addiction—if Canada is ready to invest. (Photo illustration by Maclean’s, background illustration via iStock) During my childhood summers in Pakistan, I used to go to the beach and watch the crabs. Most of them were docile but one day, a…
My daughter and I were lucky to find a host family in Ottawa. I want to pay it forward. (Illustration by Dominic Bugatto) In March of 2022, I had just moved into a new home with my nine-year-old daughter, Miia, in Kramatorsk, an industrial city in eastern Ukraine. Miia and I led happy lives there:…
Teachers, daycare workers, firefighters and nurses keep our cities running. Too bad most essential workers can’t afford to live in them. (Photograph by iStock) Gregor Craigie is the host of CBC’s On The Island and author of Our Crumbling Foundation. Essential workers—paramedics, teachers, nurses, daycare workers, firefighters—keep our country running. These are the people who the Toronto…
In Belleville, where I’m the chief paramedic, people were dropping like flies. Soon, the city declared a state of emergency. (Photograph by iStock) Up until the 1990s, paramedics had a limited role: we were basically drivers who brought patients to the hospital as quickly as possible. But then colleges began training paramedics in advanced life…
(Illustration via iStock) As Canada’s emergency rooms grapple with persistent staffing and bed shortages, hospital admission wait times are getting longer. This past December in Ontario, patients waited in ERs for an average of nearly 22 hours before getting admitted to the hospital—almost three times longer than the provincial target time of eight hours. According to…
“My family bought a house in Edmonton where we could all live together” (Illustration by Adrian Hogan) Living in Canada was my older brother Kash’s dream, not mine. We grew up in Delhi, India, and when Kash was in high school, he heard about people moving to Canada for college. He dreamed of going out…
The churchyard outside the Church of St. Stephen-in-the-Fields, where people have been living for two years now. (Photograph by Steve Russell via Getty Images) For more than 10 years, I have been the priest at the Church of St. Stephen-in-the-Fields, a tiny, historic Anglican church at the north end of Kensington Market in downtown Toronto….
(Photography by Alana Paterson) Before I was born, my dad started a commune in a lovely old (long-gone) lodge in Snug Cove on Bowen Island. That’s where my parents connected. They then became part of an underground circuit that sheltered American draft dodgers. So I grew up with tales, both hilarious and cautionary, about trying…
(Photo illustration by Maclean’s, photograph by iStock) Microbiologists are warning of a global spike in aggressive, sometimes life-threatening infections related to the bacteria that causes strep throat. In Canada, 327 cases of invasive group A streptococcal, or iGAS, were reported between August 2022 and February 11—nearly 100 more than average. These infections happen when the…
(Photo-illustration by Maclean’s, photo courtesy of iStock) As 2023 came to a close, British Columbia recorded one of its warmest Decembers in recent history—the third-mildest since 1896. It was good news for hikers and cyclists, but not so much for ski hills. Apex Mountain Ski Resort, a ski and snowboarding destination in the Okanagan Valley,…