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“We’ve had to pull money from our retirement savings to pay for childcare” Theodora Jean and her son (photography by Kamil Bialous) In 2015, my husband and I moved from Ottawa to Vancouver, where he’d landed his dream job with the federal government. We loved the weather and the mountains and ocean, and we wanted…
“I never once felt celebrated as a woman in Japan” “I rarely saw strong-willed women like myself with thriving careers in Japan, but it seemed possible in Canada” (photography by Brent Gooden) When I was a kid in Japan in the early ’90s, my kindergarten teacher asked my class what we wanted to be when…
We need a way to protect LGBTQ+ Canadians—especially drag performers—from harm. An Ontario traffic law could work. “I’d love it if these bubbles started popping up across the country, in drag capitals like Toronto and in small towns alike. I’d love it even more if we didn’t need to use them.” (Illustration by Pete Ryan)…
“It felt like our lives were moving in the right direction. But back home, interest rates were rising.” (Photograph by Pitt Meadows.) In the summer of 2020, I was living in a three-bedroom house in Coquitlam, B.C., with my parents, my brother and my partner, Curtis. The rent was $3,000 a month, and split between…
Marmora has 5,000 residents—and only two family doctors (Illustration by Maclean’s) For 25 years, I worked as a municipal administrator in Clarington, a small town an hour’s drive east of Toronto. In 2002, I moved 100 kilometres east to my hometown of Marmora to retire at my cottage. When our mayor’s term ended in 2018,…
The pandemic—and one very bad winter—have exposed long-standing gaps in Canada’s pharma supply. We can’t get caught off-guard again (Illustration by Pete Ryan) Shoo Lee is professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and former pediatrician-in-chief at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. He was named to the Order of Canada in 2019. Last summer, my…
“You’re Wrong About Gen Z” “Tell me about yourself.” Whenever I hear those four words, my brain flatlines. I scramble for an answer and wonder if there’s anything interesting to say at all. Without exception, my response is the same: every time I’m asked to describe my life, I describe my job. Work has always…
“I am a MAID provider. It’s the most meaningful—and maddening—work I do. Here’s why.” Soon after I entered medicine in 2005, I realized that I was more interested in the human experience of illness than the illness itself. I completed a rotation in medical oncology while doing a combined MD and PhD in cancer research…