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I can’t remember a more dramatic moment in Canadian politics. The Liberal party is in complete disarray, Parliament is suspended, the opposition leader’s interview with Jordan Peterson got 40 million views. Meanwhile, the incoming U.S. president regularly makes menacing comments about annexing Canada. And we’re just nine days into 2025.

What will the rest of the year look like? In Maclean’s annual Year Ahead issue, we mapped out the future of Canadian politics. The list, which we published before the holidays, features only one item that now feels dated—the part where we say Trudeau will be pressured to resign. We were right, of course, and he resigned Monday.

The rest of the predictions on our list provide a turbulent roadmap for the months ahead. Will Trump use his visit in June to the G7 in Kananaskis, Alberta, to launch his invasion? What will the push for Canadian Arctic sovereignty look like now that Trump is threatening to take over Greenland? For a peek into the future, check out this story and all the other predictions in the Maclean’s Year Ahead issue. But brace yourself: it’s going to be a wild ride. 

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—Sarah Fulford, editor-in-chief, Maclean’s

BIG IDEA

In a world where floods are becoming alarmingly frequent, adding buoyant foundations to buildings can keep them safely above water. “I call these houses ‘amphibious’ because they are adaptable to both dry land and water,” researcher Elizabeth English writes in this essay for Maclean’s. This system doesn’t just protect individual homes—here’s why it holds the potential to preserve entire communities and their cultural heritage.

THE YEAR AHEAD

Even before Pierre Poilievre became leader of the federal Conservative party, he criticized the carbon tax, especially its impact on households’ fuel bills. His vow to “axe the tax” is now central to his election campaign. If today’s polls are to be believed, then the Conservatives will likely form a majority government this year. What will happen to Canada’s environmental ambitions—and our climate—without the carbon tax? 

THE YEAR AHEAD

In 2025, AI will continue to loom large, worming its way into health care, public education and even wildfire prevention. Canadians will fight back-to-office mandates and embrace right-to-disconnect laws. First Nations communities will become the new Bay Street power players. And in the midst of inevitable political turmoil down south, a new season of fungus monsters on The Last of Us will remind us that things could always be worse. Here are 100 predictions about the people, trends, ideas and everything else that will matter this year. 

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