{"id":602534,"date":"2023-12-26T21:53:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T18:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/best-of-2023-macleans-top-big-ideas\/"},"modified":"2023-12-26T21:53:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T18:53:10","slug":"best-of-2023-macleans-top-big-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/best-of-2023-macleans-top-big-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"#Best of 2023: Maclean&#8217;s top Big Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\nCanada\u2019s leading experts propose radical solutions to the country\u2019s biggest problems\n<\/div>\n<div>\nWhat can be done to mitigate Canada\u2019s raging forest fires? Deal with our gargantuan food-waste problem? More efficiently track UFOs? This year,\u00a0<i data-stringify-type=\"italic\">Maclean\u2019s<\/i>\u00a0asked doctors, engineers, politicians, top tech minds and more to tell us their most ingenious ideas for tackling Canada\u2019s trickiest issues and transform the country for the better. Suggestions ranged from updating older solutions, like nuclear power and phage therapy, to helping school-aged kids discern fact from internet-fuelled fiction\u2014and helping adults distinguish AI-generated content from human-made creations. Here, a review of the year\u2019s best and brightest Big Ideas.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1256855\" style=\"width: 776px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-sizes=\"auto\" class=\"wp-image-1256855 size-full lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"766\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/NuclearEnergy_FINAL-766x431.jpg 766w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/NuclearEnergy_FINAL-766x431-171x96.jpg 171w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/NuclearEnergy_FINAL-766x431-489x275.jpg 489w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/NuclearEnergy_FINAL-766x431-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/NuclearEnergy_FINAL-766x431-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Illustrations by Pete Ryan)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Small modular reactors, also known as SMRs, are a third of the size of traditional ones and open a new road to net zero.\u00a0<em>By\u00a0<\/em><em>David Novog, director of the Institute for Energy Studies and professor of engineering physics at McMaster University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ THE FULL STORY<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-sizes=\"auto\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1256828 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Lamarche1_FINAL-2560x3132.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"\/><img data-sizes=\"auto\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1256857 size-full lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"766\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_Instagram-1-766x431.jpg 766w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_Instagram-1-766x431-171x96.jpg 171w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_Instagram-1-766x431-489x275.jpg 489w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_Instagram-1-766x431-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_Instagram-1-766x431-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeniors want to continue to live among young people and families\u2014not just play golf or be entertained to death.\u201d\u00a0<em>By\u00a0<\/em><em>Jen Recknagel, director of innovation and design at the University Health Network\u2019s NORC Innovation Centre in Toronto<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ THE FULL STORY<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-sizes=\"auto\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1256860 size-full lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_WEB-2560x1829.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_WEB-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_WEB-787x562.jpg 787w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_WEB-1000x714.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The pandemic\u2014and one very bad winter\u2014have exposed long-standing gaps in Canada\u2019s pharma supply. We can\u2019t get caught off-guard again.\u00a0<em>By\u00a0<\/em><em>Shoo Lee, professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and former pediatrician-in-chief at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ THE FULL STORY<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-sizes=\"auto\" class=\"wp-image-1256876 size-full lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_DRAG_FINAL.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_DRAG_FINAL-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_DRAG_FINAL-787x562.jpg 787w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_DRAG_FINAL-1000x714.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We need a way to protect LGBTQ+ Canadians\u2014especially drag performers\u2014from harm. An Ontario traffic law could work.\u00a0<em>By\u00a0<\/em><em>Kristyn Wong-Tam, a member of provincial parliament and the critic on 2SLGBTQ+ issues for the Ontario New Democratic Party.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ THE FULL STORY<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-sizes=\"auto\" class=\"wp-image-1256887 size-full lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_AI_WEB-2560x1829-2560x1829.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_AI_WEB-2560x1829-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_AI_WEB-2560x1829-787x562.jpg 787w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_AI_WEB-2560x1829-1000x714.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are now able to create text, speech, art and video as well as people can. We need to know who made what.\u00a0<em>By\u00a0<\/em><em>Val\u00e9rie Pisano, president and CEO of Mila, a non-profit artificial intelligence research institute based in Montreal<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ THE FULL STORY<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-sizes=\"auto\" class=\"wp-image-1256888 size-full lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_August_FINAL.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_August_FINAL-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_August_FINAL-787x562.jpg 787w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_August_FINAL-1000x714.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>For centuries, Indigenous fire keepers kept forests clear of fuel. It\u2019s time to fight fire with fire once again.\u00a0<em>By\u00a0<\/em><em>Joe Gilchrist,\u00a0co-founder of the Interior Salish Fire Keepers Society. He is a member of the Skeetchestn Indian Band in central B.C.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ THE FULL STORY<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-sizes=\"auto\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1256889 size-full lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"2550\" height=\"1821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_September_FINAL.jpg 2550w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_September_FINAL-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_September_FINAL-787x562.jpg 787w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_September_FINAL-1000x714.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2550px) 100vw, 2550px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>With the rampant spread of fake <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> and conspiracy theories, Canadian students would benefit from extra lessons in BS detection.\u00a0<em>By\u00a0<\/em><em>Timothy Caulfield, Canada Research Chair in health law and policy at the University of Alberta.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ THE FULL STORY<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-sizes=\"auto\" class=\"wp-image-1256901 size-full lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Mac_bac_final.jpeg 2000w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Mac_bac_final-768x548.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Mac_bac_final-787x562.jpeg 787w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Mac_bac_final-1000x714.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In 1917, a Franco-Canadian scientist pioneered a treatment that\u2019s become a powerful weapon against antibiotic-resistant infections. It should be available here.\u00a0<em>By\u00a0<\/em><em>Greg German, an assistant professor in the department of laboratory medicine and pathobiology at the University of Toronto and a microbiologist at Unity Health Toronto. He is also co-founder of the non-profit Phage Canada.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ THE FULL STORY<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-sizes=\"auto\" class=\"wp-image-1256903 size-full lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"2550\" height=\"1821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_November_FINAL-copy.jpg 2550w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_November_FINAL-copy-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_November_FINAL-copy-787x562.jpg 787w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_November_FINAL-copy-1000x714.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2550px) 100vw, 2550px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sixty per cent of Canada\u2019s food is thrown out every year. Together, we could drive that number down to zero. <em>By Josh Domingues, founder and CEO of Flashfood.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ THE FULL STORY<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-sizes=\"auto\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1256904 size-full lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_UFO_WEB.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_UFO_WEB-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_UFO_WEB-787x562.jpg 787w, https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BigIdea_UFO_WEB-1000x714.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Whether you call them UFOs, UAPs or flying saucers, Canada should treat the objects that fly in our skies as scientific phenomena, not pop-cultural quackery.\u00a0<em>By\u00a0<\/em><em>Chris Rutkowski, a ufologist based in Winnipeg, the founder of Ufology Research and the author of nine books on the subject.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ THE FULL STORY<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Deal with our gargantuan food-waste problem? More efficiently track UFOs? This year,\u00a0Maclean\u2019s\u00a0asked doctors, engineers, politicians, top tech minds and more to tell us their most ingenious ideas for tackling Canada\u2019s trickiest issues and transform&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":602535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/TopTen_BigIdea-750x422.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[147816],"class_list":["post-602534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-best-of-macleans-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}