Maclean's - July 2025

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Why Canada Is Not For Sale
This country has spent 250 years fighting American aggression. Resilience is at the heart of Canada’s national identity.
BY STEPHEN MAHER

How to Fight Back
To resist U.S. aggression, Canada needs some big ideas. Here are eight of the boldest.

On the Border
No Canadian city is more tied to the U.S. than Windsor. Divorce will be painful.
BY JASON MCBRIDE

Diana Matheson, Olympic soccer star and Northern Super League founder, is giving Canadian women a pro league of their own

BACK WHEN DIANA MATHESON was a star midfielder for Canada’s national women’s soccer team, plays were analyzed using magnets on tactical boards.

9 mins

Harvest Water From Fog

Canada’s fresh-water supply has been drained by drought and dwindling aquifers. To find more, just look up.

4 mins

My Weekend at Sad Camp

After my mother’s death, I signed up for a grief retreat in the forests of California. It upended everything I knew about mourning—and healing.

7 mins

Never For Sale

This country has spent 250 years fighting American aggression. How resistance and resilience became the heart of Canada's national identity.

10+ mins

HOW TO FIGHT BACK

Trump's tariff war was a wake-up call for Canada to abandon its gentle complacency and take some big swings. Here are eight gutsy, radical ideas to secure the nation's future.

10+ mins

A DIVIDED CITY

In Windsor, Ontario, lives, careers and family ties have transcended the Canada-U.S. border for generations. Today, Trump's trade war is an existential threat for Canada's most American city.

10+ mins

FACES OF THE TRADE WAR

Donald Trump's trade war is an existential threat for Canada's small and medium-sized businesses. Every year, they export more than $200 billion worth of goods to the United States and import nearly $150 billion worth—including equipment, food, construction materials and other products they need to stay afloat. Now, as businesses contend with tariff-induced inflation, suppliers are disappearing, prices are skyrocketing and profit margins are shrinking or vanishing altogether. That puts small-business owners on the frontlines of the trade war. Here, five of them describe their hopes, fears and game plans as they navigate U.S. tariffs, Canadian countermeasures and an economic climate of unprecedented uncertainty.

10+ mins

MY ADVENTURES WITH CANADIAN BOOKS

I left Russia as the country slid into authoritarianism and arrived in Canada knowing no one. In its novels, I found a blueprint for how to survive as a nation in the age of anger.

10+ mins

SALT AND CEDAR

A couple build a minimalist retreat in sync with the Atlantic's stormy coastlines

2 mins

“I fled war zones in two countries. Now I build homes in Alberta.”

I left Ukraine behind, then Israel. In Calgary, I started over cleaning construction sites.

3 mins

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Canada's national magazine covering current affairs, politics, culture trends, ideas and personalities.