Pierre Poilievre strikes me as the perfect leader of the opposition. He’s a bold, cheeky critic whose concise quips play well in short-form video clips. His smart-aleck persona, while not exactly likeable, provides satisfaction to a disgruntled public in short bursts. As the Liberals imploded yesterday, he repeatedly stole the show in Parliament. But what happens when a smart aleck becomes a national leader? All polls suggest that Canada is going to find out next year when Poilievre is elected. Stephen Maher, an accomplished political writer who wrote the book on Justin Trudeau, has surveyed all of Poilievre’s promises, spoken to Ottawa insiders, and lays out, for Maclean’s, what he thinks a Poilievre prime ministership will look like. “It will be a great reckoning,” says Maher, “cheered by some, feared by others.” Visit macleans.ca for more coverage of everything that matters in Canada, and subscribe to the magazine here. |
These days, the business of sports is about leveraging associated assets. Sports teams—and their owners—make money by building stadiums and towers and leasing out commercial spaces. In 2025, when Ed Rogers buys Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment—and, by extension, the Toronto Maple Leafs—for $4.7 billion, he’ll have the power to unlock that value. |
Canadians are in an all-out war with rats for dominion over our urban centres: they’re swarming outside train stations, swimming in toilets and falling out of ceilings. Rat-related complaints are on the rise, and pest controllers expect the problem to get worse in the next three years. Here’s how we can take our cities back. |
Fifty years ago in the Bronx, new music from Black and Latino youth burst onto mainstream airways and never left. Hip-hop permeated music, film and contemporary art—as showcased in this Art Gallery of Ontario exhibition of more than 100 pieces from 65 artists. Among them: Hank Willis Thomas’s Black Power gold grills, Deana Lawson’s conceptual photo Nation (featuring, at the top of the frame, George Washington’s dentures made from the teeth of slaves) and Moroccan artist Hassan Hajjaj’s Cardi B portrait framed with green tea boxes (above). Born at the Baltimore Museum of Art, The Culture shows a little extra love for Canada with Toronto photographer Craig Boyko’s shot of Snoop Dogg as a young pup and Caitlin Cronenberg’s famous album cover of Drake atop the CN Tower. And, in honour of hip hop’s roots among young people, the exhibition is free for all Ontarians under 25. |
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