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The Best of 2025: Maclean’s Top 10 Immigration Stories

If 2024 was the year Canada slammed its doors shut to immigrants, 2025 was when the fallout began. At Maclean’s, we heard from students stuck in...

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Courtney Shea

The Best of 2025: Maclean’s Top 10 Longreads

In the last year, Canadians elected our first new leader in a decade, broke up with our closest ally and coped with nationwide economic turmoil....

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Luc Rinaldi

The Best of 2025: Maclean’s Top 10 Culture Stories

In the chaos and anxiety of 2025, Canadians are seeking meaning wherever they can—including, more than ever before, in the zodiac. This year,...

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Jadine Ngan

How I Got Into Software Engineering at Waterloo

I was born into an engineering family: my dad is a civil engineer and works in wastewater management in Burton, New Brunswick, where I grew up. I...

19.12.2025 1

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Celia Evans

How My Book, Heated Rivalry, Became A TV Phenomenon

I started working on my first novel, Game Changers, in 2015. I own a promotional-products company in Halifax, so the book was only meant to be a...

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Rachel Reid

Best of 2025: Maclean’s Top Family Stories

In 2025, Canadian families formed into countless configurations—and Maclean’s was there to document them all. By far, the most popular piece in...

18.12.2025 1

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Hannah Beach

Canada Can Be a Refuge for America’s Grad Students

In early April, I travelled to Chicago and Baltimore to attend meetings with several associations of Canadian and American graduate schools. The...

17.12.2025 2

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Fahim Quadir