Next year, a federal plan to feed kids will kick in. The benefits will be big.
This week, the Liberals are receiving harsh criticism for excessive spending. At Monday’s economic update, the government will likely announce that it won’t achieve its promised $40.1-billion deficit target. And Trudeau’s GST holiday, which will cost the government $1.6 billion, won’t help. So what is the government spending on? Transformative, big-ticket items, like $10-a-day daycare and pharmacare. Soon the country will have a national school food program, too. In Maclean’s this week, Rachel Engler-Stringer, a nutrition expert in Saskatoon, argues that the program, designed to combat hunger, will be a game-changer for Canadian children. She sees it as an investment in the country’s future. With a federal commitment of $1 billion over five years, the program will offer snacks and meals to hundreds of thousands of kids annually starting in 2025. “Students who use these programs do better academically and miss less school,” says Engler-Stringer. A little bit of good news, in an otherwise gloomy atmosphere. —Sarah Fulford, editor-in-chief, Maclean’s |
Canadians are in an all-out war with rats for dominion over our urban centres: they’ve been spotted swarming outside train stations, swimming in toilets and falling out of ceilings. Rat-related complaints are on the rise, and pest controllers expect the problem to get worse in the next three years. Here’s how we can take our cities back. |
It’s all but certain that, by the end of 2025, Pierre Poilievre will become our new prime minister. We don’t know when the election will be, or even who will lead the Liberals. What we do know is that the Conservatives have been ahead in the polls by double digits since September of 2022, when Poilievre became leader. He’ll probably win a majority—and then he’ll move fast and break things. Here’s what Canada’s Pierre Poilievre era could look like. |
Canadian jazz songstress Emilie-Claire Barlow is pausing her usual programming on the Spark Bird tour for a special holiday stop in her hometown. The two-time Juno Award winner and her bandmates on violin, viola, cello and tenor sax will perform festive, nostalgic renditions of Christmas crowd pleasers from her holiday albums Winter Wonderland and Lumières d’hiver, including “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” “Santa Baby” and “Christmas Time Is Here.” It’s one night only in Toronto for Barlow, who heads next across the border for Christmas in the Big Apple. |
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