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(Photo illustration by Maclean’s, photograph by Lito Howse.) Maurice Vellekoop is a cartoonist, illustrator, and the author of graphic memoir I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together, forthcoming from Random House Canada in February 2024. In the past few months, I’ve been distressed to witness a relatively new phenomenon: social conservatives, inflamed by fear and misinformation, are…
(Photography by Claudine Baltazar) In 2020, my wife, Evelin, and I began renting a one-bedroom apartment on the first floor of a house in Toronto’s Little Portugal neighbourhood for $1,800 a month. Our apartment had a huge kitchen and lots of storage, but after our daughter, Elisamarie, came along in 2021, we knew we needed…
This fall, amid waves of protests, the East Toronto Multifaith Community organized a peaceful, apolitical vigil for their grieving neighbours. Here, they describe the healing experience. Soon after the war between Israel and Hamas broke out, one Toronto-based multi-faith group decided to do something radical, something that stood apart from all the political demonstrations and…
Goodness, Peter and Judith have become unlikely roommates in the Ottawa home that Peter and Judith own. (Photography by Maryn Devine) Canada continues to face a shortage of affordable housing, and international students are feeling the brunt of it: most schools don’t have enough student housing to accommodate everyone. At the same time, more than five…
(Photo illustration by Maclean’s, photograph by Jessica Ford) In October, the government of Quebec announced it would increase university tuition for out-of-province Canadian students from $8,992 to $17,000, with the goal of promoting the French language by allowing universities to invest the extra money into their courses and programs. But many members of the province’s academic community…
I can see a life for myself here, but I still miss the city where I grew up (Illustration by Adrian Hogan) I was born in Hong Kong in 1994, back when it was still a British colony. When I was three years old, Britain returned the region to China; the countries agreed that Hong…
(Photograph courtesy of Yasmin Akhtar, photo illustration by Maclean’s) This fall, as models and celebs swept through Paris Fashion Week, so too did an outbreak of small, flat blood-sucking bed bugs. “No one is safe,” warned Paris’s deputy mayor, Emmanuel Grégoire, when asked whether infestations were confined to a certain area. Seven schools were forced to…
BJ Barone (back) & Frankie Nelson (middle), with their son Milo Nelson-Barone. Photo taken next to their family photo wall in their Toronto home. (Photography by Claudine Baltazar) I had always wanted to be a father. But growing up as a gay kid, I never thought that would happen. I had no idea what my…
(Photography by Chloë Ellingson) Every day, as many as 60 pet owners file into the Toronto Humane Society’s headquarters, just east of the city’s downtown core, seeking food for their beloved animals. The answer lies behind a squad of secretaries at the building’s front desk, where the dusty scent of kibble in sealed plastic serving…
After moving to three continents, I settled down in Alberta (Illustration by Adrian Hogan) For most of my life, home always felt like a temporary place. I was born in Trichy, India, in 1994; when I was three months old, I moved to Abu Dhabi, where my dad worked as an engineer. We were treated…