Chris Nuttall-Smith is one of Canada’s best-known food writers—there’s no one I trust more about restaurants. So when Maclean’s decided to create a joy-filled survey of the best places to eat across the country, Chris was the obvious person for the job. Luckily, he agreed to the challenge and spent much of the last six months travelling around the country via plane, train and automobile (and even the occasional ferry), eating his way through an impressive collection of restaurants. What do restaurants look like in the summer of 2023? Here’s your answer, plus a bucket list of places to eat this summer. Enjoy.

—Sarah Fulford, editor-in-chief

Chris Nuttall-Smith at Edulis, an intimate special-occasion restaurant in Toronto known for its homey service and spectacular classical cooking.

It’s harder than ever for farmers to find seasonal help—especially as 40 per cent of Canadian farm operators are expected to retire in the next decade. Here, a third-generation farmer from Saskatchewan describes why the industry needs more skilled labour to survive.

Sarah-Ève Pelletier is nearly a year into her role as the country’s first sport integrity commissioner. It’s her job to manage complaints about abuse in the country’s national sporting organizations. What has she seen so far? In this interview, she describes horror stories recounted by athletes from sports as varied as soccer, gymnastics, water polo and bobsleigh, and what her office is doing to fix the rot in Canadian sports.

In 2021, the Canadian government passed Bill C-218, removing the ban on single-game sports betting. Now when fans watch sports in Ontario, they’re inundated by gambling ads. Deloitte Canada estimates that the market from single-event sports betting in Canada could grow to $28 billion within five years. That all spells trouble for Canadians with gambling problems. Noah Vineberg, a bus driver in Ottawa and recovering gambling addict, tells the story of how he’s bet over $1 million in his life on hockey, football, horse racing and even cricket—and how this new era of legalized betting has made everything harder. 

This buzzy new film chronicles the rise and fall of Research in Motion, the Waterloo moonshot whose founders had the zany idea to merge computers with cellphones. Directed by Matt Johnson, BlackBerry is the must-see Canadian movie of the year, a north-of-the-border analogue to The Social Network. Jay Baruchel plays Mike Lazaridis, the engineering student turned RIM co-founder who watched his dreams get gobbled up by the iPhone—but not before they made him a billionaire. In this interview with Maclean’s, Baruchel describes why he loves movies, hockey, weed and his now-obsolete phone.

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