Maclean's

Canada's national magazine covering current affairs, politics, culture trends, ideas and personalities.

EDITOR’S NOTE • IN THIS ISSUE OF MACLEAN’S

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COMMENTS • READERS WEIGH IN

The story is Canada

THE INTERVIEW • Ana Bailão, CEO of Build Canada Homes, hears your housing complaints. She’s trying.

Track Viruses With Wastewater • America’s taking an axe to its health research, leaving Canadians with less data to monitor dangerous outbreaks. The solution is in our sewers.

Canada Isn’t Ready for an Arctic War • The Carney government’s new defence spending might be too little, too late

Flight of the Snowbirds • My husband and I spent 13 amazing winters at our property in Palm Desert, California. We won’t be going back anytime soon.

Reaching a Turning Point in Brain Science • A new partnership promises a new approach to the body-brain relationship.

How to SURVIVE the Post-Pandemic WORKPLACE

Everyone’s Back. The Office Isn’t Ready. • As employees return to the office five days a week, they’re facing crushing commutes, cacophonous co-workers and battles over desk space. How the post-COVID dream of a hybrid workplace ended in misery and mayhem.

White-Collar Workers Are Not Okay • Engineering grads are stocking shelves at Walmart. Tech workers are being laid off en masse. AI is everywhere. How the new economy upturned the job market.

THE NEW OFFICE RULES

AI Has Entered the Cubicle • Artificial intelligence is making some industries a whole lot easier—and wreaking havoc on others. Here, four Canadians on the bumpy early days of AI in the workplace.

LITTLE HOUSE IN THE COUNTY • A Toronto family restored an 1863 farmhouse into a Marie Antoinette–inspired retreat

OPENING ACT • Fifty years ago, Montreal hosted Canada’s first Olympics. A new exhibit shows how the Games remade the city—and nearly broke it.

CULTURE

BEARING FRUIT