Maclean's

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EDITOR’S NOTE • IN THIS ISSUE OF MACLEAN’S

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COMMENTS • READERS WEIGH IN

THE INTERVIEW CONVERSATIONS WITH THE NATION’S NEWSMAKERS • In Naheed Nenshi, the Alberta NDP’s leadership frontrunner, Danielle Smith may have met her match

Supporting Patient Choice and Access to Eye Therapies • Regardless of their eye condition or disease, older Canadians need access to a range of safe, effective, and appropriate vision care treatments.

Create Refugee Reception Centres • Asylum seekers are arriving in Canada in record numbers, sleeping in shelters, churches and sometimes on the street. Reception centres are a more humane approach.

Squeeze Play • The Ostranders’ adult daughter moved back home after a run-in with Ontario’s expensive rental market. Finding a new property in New Brunswick—big enough to fit everyone—became a whole-family project.

“I was floating $100,000 in monthly debt” • I run a daycare in Calgary. Canada’s $10-per-day plan is destroying my business.

HOT TOPICS • The third instalment of the Maclean’s Ideas Summit convened Canada’s brightest thought leaders to discuss the country’s newsiest trends

Private Health Care Is Here • A growing number of Canadians pay out of pocket for MRIs, hip replacements, even family doctor visits. How a two-tiered system crept into Canada.

Hannah and Justin Housey and their two-year-old son, Hudson • PAY $6,000 per year for private clinic memberships in Montreal

Denika Fercho • PAID $5,000 for private MRIs on Vancouver Island

Caroline Topperman • PAYS $3,700 per year for an executive-clinic membership in Toronto

Mike Johansen • PAID $30,000 for a private hip-replacement surgery in Montreal

Sergio Tercero • PAID $8,700 for private MRIs and knee surgery in Vancouver

A New Day is Dawning for Caregivers Across Canada

Empowering the Invisible Heroes: Why Caregiver Support Is Critical • More resources are needed to support caregivers - especially young ones - as they balance the challenges of work, school, and caregiving.

Community Resilience through Social Prescribing: Strengthening the Fabric of Care

Understanding the Challenges Facing Canada’s 8 Million Caregivers • Canada’s family caregivers take on significant financial strain, along with other challenges associated with caregiving.

THE ENCAMPMENT WARS • The battle over one tent village in a portside Vancouver park turned it into the city’s only fully legal tent community. What that means for the thousands of Canadians living in encampments nationwide.

Sober Nation • Canadians are rethinking drinking. Sexy mocktails, zero-alcohol beer and boozeless bars are everywhere. Why it’s never been cooler (or easier) to go alcohol-free.

VINTAGE VISTA • An Etsy seller fills her lakeside B.C. cottage with secondhand treasures

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SMALL BUT MIGHTY • An Edmonton exhibit showcases everyday objects shrunk to dollhouse proportions

CULTURE

“People blame international students like me for the housing crisis. I’m thinking of leaving.” • My family is spending $100,000 on my tuition alone, but I fear our sacrifices will amount to nothing