The Maclean’s tote bag, proudly emblazoned with “True North Strong Free,” in the wake of Trump’s 51st state bluster has been selling much better than I anticipated. We tapped into a surge of patriotism, and we were thrilled to see how many of you wanted to buy them. |
This week, in the days leading up to Canada Day, Maclean’s is branching out. We’re expanding our merch to include T-shirts, hoodies and baseball caps with the same bullishly pro-Canada (and anti-annexation) message. For this new line of Maclean’s True North Strong Free products, we’ve partnered with a Calgary-based company called Local Laundry that specializes in 100 per cent made-in-Canada clothes. Their products are durable, ethically produced and made-to-order to avoid any unnecessary waste. This collection will be available for two weeks only. We love these products and hope you’ll love them, too. Proceeds from each sale will support the work we do at Maclean’s, telling stories about Canada during this turbulent time. Happy Canada Day from the editors at Maclean’s,Canada’s magazine for 120 years and counting. 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 |
Living in Windsor can be like living in a suburb of an exciting American city. Detroit certainly looms larger than Toronto, which is a four-hour drive away. Nowhere is the porous, undefended border between Canada and the U.S. more permeable. But after Donald Trump was re-elected last November, everything changed. Windsor’s proximity to Detroit suddenly seemed less like an asset and more like a threat. From our July 2025 issue, read Jason McBride’s deep-dive into a border city in trying times. |
Elizaveta Tarnarutckaia left Russia as the country slid into authoritarianism. Her husband had accepted a job in Calgary, and she went with him. Back home, she'd worked in Russian literature, and she knew that career wouldn’t transfer over easily. But in her new home’s literary canon, she found a guide to Canada's emotional and cultural landscape. “Our literature has long offered a blueprint for Canadian identity,” she writes in this longform essay for Maclean’s. |
The storybook-like village of Steveston, sitting along the Fraser River in Richmond, B.C., is hardly the kind of place you’d expect to find a fine-dining restaurant. And yet it’s there that chef Nutcha Phanthoupheng decided to open Baan Lao, which was recently named the best restaurant in Canada by the World Culinary Awards. The 20-seat restaurant is Phanthoupheng’s love letter to her homeland: she grew up in northeastern Thailand, where she lived on her family’s farm and developed an early passion for food. At Baan Lao, ingredients are luxe, surprising and sourced from a combination of local and Thai farms, including rice from Phanthoupheng’s family property. A meal might include an amuse bouche of water buffalo served on a spoon carved out of pineapple; an appetizer of coconut mousse with Dungeness crab and caviar, wrapped up in a crispy rice cup; and a main course of tom yum soup with a giant Japanese tiger prawn and caviar made out of seaweed. Each dish is fresh and vibrant, representing the essence of its maker: elegant, thoughtful and proud of where it came from. For more about chef Nutcha Panthoupheng—plus a look at more of the country’s most exciting culinary destinations—check out this bucket list of homegrown restaurants, chefs and dishes to experience this summer. |
|
|
Copyright © 2025 All rights reserved SJC Media, 15 Benton Road, Toronto, ON M6M 3G2 You are receiving this message from St. Joseph Communications because you have given us permission to send you editorial features Unsubscribe
Safe Online Sharing |
|
|
|
