Today we are releasing a special issue of Maclean’s highlighting Canada’s 100 most powerful people. I confess: it’s become one of my favourite issues to publish. The Maclean’s Power List is a sweeping snapshot of the country, where power resides and how it operates.
We organized the list into different categories. As you’ll see, we used some straightforward topic areas like education, politics, sports, business, tech and culture, with 10 people highlighted in each. But we also feature a bunch of categories that you might call issue-based, such as climate, AI and housing. The big players in those fields, we believe, will shape the future of Canada.
Our list is not exactly scientific. It’s more of a cheat sheet on who’s who, created by a team of editors who watch the country closely, keep track of the people dominating the headlines and think deeply about what matters now. If you believe we’ve left off anyone important, please let us know. There’s always next year’s list—which we’ve already started building.
—Sarah Fulford, editor-in-chief
