When the history books recount Justin Trudeau’s fall, they’ll describe his government’s approach to immigration: under his watch, the Liberals let in too many international students and temporary foreign workers without sufficiently building up the infrastructure to accommodate them. The anti-immigration backlash that ensued will take years to overcome. In an opinion piece for Maclean’s,Steve Lafleur, a research director at the Institute for Research on Public Policy, makes the case that Canada should put recent history aside and take a fresh look at immigration. To grow our economy, he says, we do need to beef up our population. We just have to be much smarter about it this time. |
In addition to building the necessary housing and transit, we also need to encourage immigrants to settle not just in Toronto and Vancouver but also in mid-sized Canadian cities that don’t have the same growth pressures. “Immigration should be viewed as not just an opportunity for a handful of large cities, but for the country as a whole.” Visit macleans.ca for more coverage of everything that matters in Canada, and subscribe to the magazine here. —Sarah Fulford, editor-in-chief, Maclean’s |
McGill professor Juan Serpa created the Sustainability Academic Network, or SUSAN, as an online hub where researchers could post jobs and events and connect outside of their subject silos. Now, as the Trump government takes a big orange machete to scientists’ jobs, funding and even vocabulary, it’s become a refuge for the American scientific community. Maclean’s editor Katie Underwood spoke to Serpa about how SUSAN’s standing up to Donald and how Canadian academia could shift as a result. |
Canada’s nightmarish opioid crisis has renewed calls for involuntary drug treatment. In B.C., a handful of beds opened this year for a subset of substance users, struggling with both severe addiction and mental-health crises. It’s an experiment that will be watched closely across the nation. But does the government have a right to force users to get help? Read Anthony Milton’s deep-dive feature from our June issue. |
Leo Tolstoy created literature’s most famous love triangle between his titular heroine, her solid-but-boring husband and her passionate-but-noncommittal lover. But what Tolstoy depicted in a thousand pages, the National Ballet can do in just a few hours. Scored by several 20th-century composers, including Sergei Rachmaninoff and Witold Lutoslawski, the ballet marks the North American premiere of German choreographer Christian Spuck’s adaptation—and his first team-up with the National Ballet. Despite some modern updates—elaborate costumes, large-scale video projections and moving platforms—things will still end badly for poor Anna. —Rosemary Counter |
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