Yesterday, as Trump and Trudeau negotiated over America’s 25 per cent tariff on Canadian goods, it felt like Canada’s economic future was teetering on a precipice. But tariffs aren’t the only threat from our southern neighbours. One of the weirdest parts of the day was a video in which Trump, ahead of his 3 p.m. call with Trudeau, mused that Canada would simply become an American state if Canadians had a higher pain threshold. Much has been made of Trump’s desire to absorb Canada. Could that actually happen? Stephen Marche, author of The Next Civil War, is a self-described “professional worrier about America.” He’s not worried about that. America has no stomach for an attack so close to home, Marche says in a Tiktok for Maclean’sthat struck a chord—it’s racked up 1.2 million views. So it’s not war we need to prepare for, he warns. It’s chaos. Canada is safe when America is strong; right now, America is the weakest it’s been in our lifetimes. “If your neighbour’s house is on fire, yours eventually will be too,” he writes in this must-read essay for Maclean’s. Already, weeks into Trump’s second term, Marche’s words ring true. Visit macleans.ca for more coverage of everything that matters in Canada, and subscribe now to save 25%. —Jadine Ngan, digital editor |
Nadeem Al Ghazal grew up in Beirut, where he repaired homes destroyed by war. Now he works on a construction site, overseeing a 19-acre housing development in Brampton, Ontario. “The job site is diverse—many of our workers are newcomers like me—which is why I get frustrated when people blame immigrants for Canada’s housing crisis,” Ghazal writes. “We’re helping to build Canada’s future, one home at a time.” |
Back in January, with the U.S. president threatening massive tariffs, Canada’s provinces decided to defend themselves. For B.C. Premier David Eby, nothing was off the table—not export bans, not travel boycotts and certainly not retaliatory import tariffs, right down to Florida orange juice. Days before Trump’s inauguration, Maclean’s managing editor Katie Underwood spoke to Eby about this eye-for-an-eye economic approach. Read their conversation here. |
As the world turned digital, so did espionage; surveillance tech is now spycraft’s top weapon. Citizen Lab, a Toronto research centre, stepped in as the world’s digital watchdog in 2001. It uncovered spyware used against figures like the Dalai Lama, human rights defenders and even the assassinated Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Its founder, political-scientist-turned-cybersecurity-boss Ron Deibert, pulls back the curtain on this shadowy world and takes readers to places like Spain, Poland, Hungary and Greece, where his team reverse-engineered spyware used by mercenary firms to infiltrate the devices of activists, journalists and political dissidents. —Rosemary Counter |
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