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(Photo illustration by Maclean’s) In Ontario, the dreaded N13 eviction notice—also known as a renoviction—informs renters that they must vacate their home because the unit needs major renovations. Between 2017 and 2022, the number of N13 eviction notices rose by a staggering 986 per cent in Hamilton, Ontario. Under Ontario law, renters can move back to the…
Canada’s risk-averse banking system is full of potential dangers for customers. A simple security update would change everything. (Illustration by Pete Ryan) Alexander Vronces is the executive director of Fintechs Canada. He writes about the intersection of financial technology and public policy in Canada. When I started working as a policy analyst in Canada’s financial sector a…
(Photo illustration by Maclean’s, photo courtesy of iStock) My hip pain started around 2015, when I was in my mid-30s. It began as stiffness, then a pinch or tweak. My wife Barbara and I live on an acreage in Sturgeon County, Alberta, with our three kids, where we raise a handful of cows and some…
Bob Tolman on his ranch near Rumsey, Alberta. (Photography by Leah Hennel) I’ve raised cattle in Rumsey, Alberta, for 43 years. I purchased the land from my father, whose grandpa settled it in 1908. This year, my wife, Joanne, and I retired early, putting an end to four generations as a family business. Our three…
(Photographs courtesy of Charlotte Morritt-Jacobs) I met my partner, Alex, in July of 2019 in Yellowknife. Both of us had recently arrived in the Northwest Territories from Ontario, newly sober and ready to embrace the pristine land and water surrounding us. Soon we were inseparable. He works as an environmental technician at a diamond mine,…
(Photo illustration by Maclean’s, photographs courtesy of Getty Images and Joël Louiseize) I grew up in Sturgeon Falls, a tiny community in northern Ontario near the Quebec border. My family is Franco-Ontarian, so I grew up speaking French. In 2013 I moved to Toronto to study music production; I wanted to write and record music professionally….
In Halifax, I was having trouble paying the bills (Illustration by Maclean’s, photograph by iStock) As a teenager in Beijing, I attended an international high school for students who wanted to go to university in Canada. My parents thought I’d have a better education in Canada, which they’d heard was a safe country with more…
(Photograph by Michael Bell/Canadian Press) In October, after 40 hours of debate and weeks of controversy, the Saskatchewan government passed Bill 137, a law that prevents children under 16 from changing their preferred name or pronoun at school without the consent of a parent. Premier Scott Moe insisted that the legislation, also known as the…
“I find it appalling that people who contributed to Canadian society for decades are working when they’d rather not because a government pension can’t support them—if they have one at all” (Photograph by Riley Smith) I’m 80 now, but I’ve been working pretty steadily since the 1950s. As a teenager, I was employed as a production…
Carlos Rojas Salazar, director of operations & international affairs for the Association for the Rights of Household and Farm Workers, in the kitchen of the organization offices in Montreal. (Photography by Nasuna Stuart-Ulin) I was raised in Mexico, but I’ve lived abroad since 1999, when I won a scholarship to study earth science and environmental…