Maclean's - October 2024

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The Generational Wealth Transfer - Canada’s boomers have amassed extraordinary wealth, and they’re starting to pass it down. How this trillion-dollar bonanza will transform the country.

THE BIG IDEA - How a four-day workweek can benefit employees and their companies.

THE BUILDING - Calgary’s refurbished BMO Centre, at the heart of Stampede Park, showcases why bigger is always better...

Richard Ireland, mayor of Jasper, is ready to rebuild

IT'S TEMPTING TO LEAN on numbers when conveying the scale of the damage wrought by July's fire in Jasper, Albertathe worst in the national park's 117-year history. Water bombers were grounded in the face of 400-foot-high flames. More than 25,000 visitors and residents were evacuated as hundreds of firefighters flew in to assist. Damages exceeded $700 million. A third of the town's structures were consumed-historical buildings, tourist haunts and family homes. One of them belonged to Richard Ireland.

8 mins

Embrace the Four-Day Workweek

Canada is facing a national productivity crisis. One counterintuitive solution? Give workers more time off.

5 mins

The Main Event

Calgary's massive, modern, newly expanded BMO Centre is open for business

1 min

My Child-Free Choice

For a long time, I wasn't sure whether I wanted to become a parent. The climate crisis clinched my decision.

5 mins

THE JACKPOT GENERATION

Canada is in the midst of the greatest wealth transfer of all time, as some $1 trillion passes from boomers to their millennial kids. How an inheritance-based economy will transform the country.

10+ mins

THE CULTURE WAR IN THE CLASSROOM

Several provincial governments now mandate parental consent for kids to change pronouns in Schools. Who gets to decide a child's gender?

10+ mins

THE NORTHERN FRONT

In Ontario's hinterlands, a battle is brewing between First Nations, prospectors and the provincial government over a multi-billion-dollar motherlode of metals. Inside the fight for the Ring of Fire.

10+ mins

TIDAL WAVE

Susan Lapides chronicles her family's summers in a tiny New Brunswick fishing town

2 mins

Les alle historiene fra Maclean's

Maclean's Magazine Description:

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