What will next year bring? In Maclean’s annual edition of the Year Ahead, we try to answer that question with predictions about the people, ideas and events that will shape Canada in 2024. I confess: it is my favourite issue of the year. The writers and editors who work on this special issue make me feel much better informed and ready to tackle tomorrow.
In addition to our writers’ predictions, we invited some of the country’s smartest thinkers to lay out what we can expect in the coming year. Experts with deep knowledge in a variety of fields contributed essays on our shared future. Click here for the full list—and here are just a few:
Cities will make permanent room for encampments, by Stepan Wood, a Canada Research Chair in Law, Society and Sustainability at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia
Wildfire season will get more intense, by John Vaillant, author of Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World
Drug-resistant superbugs will become a deadly threat, by Gerry Wright, a professor of biochemistry and biomedical studies at McMaster University
Political extremism will find new ways to flourish, by Barbara Perry, director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism at Ontario Tech University
The Maclean’s Year Ahead issue is essential reading for anyone who cares about the country and where it’s headed.
—Sarah Fulford, editor-in-chief
