Yesterday, in yet another economically destabilizing move, Trump jacked up steel and aluminum tariffs to 50 per cent. Canada, the largest supplier of both steel and aluminum to the United States, will be hit hard. In theory, the tariffs are designed to encourage more U.S.-based manufacturing. But of course the Canadian and American economies are deeply intertwined, and both countries will suffer. Products of all kinds—not just cars—go back and forth across the border multiple times as they are assembled. The making of beer cans, for example, is a complex, North America–wide affair. Trump has rattled the entire industry. |
In a piece for Maclean’s, Bromlyn Bethune, the president of Steam Whistle Brewing in Toronto, describes what Trump’s tariffs have done to her company over the last few months. The aluminum for Steam Whistle’s cans comes from Quebec, then it’s shipped to the U.S. where it’s turned into tallboys and shipped back. Steam Whistle now faces $1 million in expenses the company hadn’t budgeted for. “This has been a really difficult time,” she says, “but it’s also exciting, in a way. It’s forced us to figure out how to protect our business.” Visit macleans.ca for more coverage of everything that matters in Canada, and subscribe to the magazine here. —Sarah Fulford, editor-in-chief, Maclean’s |
Diana Matheson was once a star midfielder for Canada’s women’s soccer team. In 2022, a year into her retirement, she found herself mapping out the country’s first pro women’s league on a bar napkin. The Northern Super League launched this spring, with franchises in six cities. Overdue? Maybe. Or maybe it was perfectly timed. Maclean’s editor Katie Underwood interviewed Matheson about women’s sports’ big moment. |
For decades, Canada’s military has languished. We’d assumed the U.S. would always be there, that NATO would last forever, that Russia was a manageable threat and that China’s interest in the Arctic was largely benign. That fantasy came crashing down when Donald Trump returned to the White House, writes U of T professor Aurel Braun in this essay for Maclean’s. His solution? Ramp up military spending—fast. |
Good Citizens Need Not Fear, Maria Reva’s 2020 debut about life in Soviet-era Ukraine, wowed the world—except Russia, which promptly blacklisted the Ukraine-born Canadian author. Five years later, Reva follows it up with Endling, a surrealist novel about Yeva, a snail-breeding biologist secretly entangled in Ukraine’s real-life marriage tourism trade, where wealthy Westerners look for subservient brides. When Russia invades, Yeva flees with two other women, a truckload of kidnapped bachelors and Lefty, the last of a rare snail species. The result is yet another sharp, darkly funny adventure that skewers totalitarianism with wit and bite. —Rosemary Counter |
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