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EDITOR’S NOTE

Late last year, my ancient Hyundai reached the end of its life. It started making an ominous noise and needed costly repairs and, well, pouring money into my hard-working old car didn’t seem like a good investment. So instead I bought a newer model. Now I’m enjoying the fact that my car is not on the brink of dying all the time. But I purchased it with some ambivalence. For one thing, I had the bad luck of needing a car when the industry was still struggling with a global semiconductor chip shortage, so the price was pretty steep. I also felt like I was buying a dinosaur. My car is not an electric vehicle or even a hybrid. How long until it’s obsolete? In downtown Toronto, where I live,…

THE INTERVIEW CONVERSATIONS WITH THE NATION’S NEWSMAKERS

JAY BARUCHEL IS EVERYWHERE: in slashers, sex farces and sports movies; opposite mythical lizards in Disney’s How to Train Your Dragon franchise; and he’s worked with directors as varied as David Cronenberg, Judd Apatow and even himself. If you’re wondering how an Ottawa-born, Montreal-raised kid with a Gumby body and a voice like a twisted balloon has been working steadily since 1995 (he’s now 40 and busier than ever), the answer is simple: Jay Baruchel loves movies—loves them. Baruchel loved his BlackBerry, too. He hung on to it until 2019. It makes sense, then, that his next movie is, well, Black-Berry, which chronicles the rise and fall of Research in Motion, the Waterloo moonshot whose founders had the zany idea to merge computers with cellphones. Baruchel plays Mike Lazaridis, the…

THE INTERVIEW CONVERSATIONS WITH THE NATION’S NEWSMAKERS

Stockpile Canada’s Drugs

LAST SUMMER, my colleagues and I published a paper in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, insisting that pharmaceutical security needed to become a national priority. Months later, we saw why: in the midst of a “tripledemic” of COVID, flu, and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, panicked parents scoured pharmacies for children’s Tylenol and found only empty shelves. Sick adults couldn’t get their hands on over-the-counter cold medicines. Out west, the antibiotic amoxicillin was scarce. As Canadian health-care professionals know, this was an extreme example of an old issue. One quarter of all Canadian drugs (over-the-counter and otherwise) were running short well before the pandemic, but there’s nothing quite like a global health crisis to expose a country’s weak points. To make sure shortages like this don’t keep happening, we need…

Stockpile Canada’s Drugs

The Stand-Up Gal

SOME MIGHT THINK Andrea Jin’s trademark sweet-then-dark jokes about, say, China’s onechild policy, veer into too-far territory, but 250,000 TikTok followers can’t be wrong. Mulan, her grandparents—all of it is fodder for the Vancouver comedian, who has channelled her dry, yeah-I-said-it sensibility into online acclaim and a ticket to Los Angeles (where she now lives). Now 27, Jin was just 10 when her family immigrated from China to Vancouver. After school, she received English lessons from Family Guy and Russell Peters’s stand-up—stuff no kid should hear. “My parents didn’t speak English either, so they couldn’t tell,” she says. She got hooked on performing during a five-minute set at a campus comedy event at Western University, where she studied business. Everyone was eating and doing homework, but Jin wasn’t fazed. She…

The Stand-Up Gal

The first-ever Maclean’s Ideas Summit, inspired by the magazine’s recent Year Ahead issue, featured discussions about Canada’s future with brilliant thinkers at venues around Toronto. The three-day event—held in partnership with signature sponsor Uber Canada, as well as the UHN Foundation and Colliers Canada—included a live Q&A with environmentalist David Suzuki, a fireside chat with public-health expert Andrew Boozary and a panel of mini talks from industry leaders on innovation in health care, business, education and more. For full event coverage, visit Macleans.ca/events GREAT MINDS As part of the three-day summit, guests were invited to a mini-talk series at OCAD University. The evening began with networking and drinks, followed by speeches about the future of innovation from top thinkers including OCAD U president Ana Serrano; Stefan Raos, head of public affairs…

The New POWER List

After three pandemic-pllagued years, Canadians have emerged, squinting and, disoriented, into a new world order. While we were baking sourdough in lock-down, artificial intelligence evolved from the stuff of movie magic into big business, Basketball and soccer closed in on hockey to join the ranks of Canada’s national games. We finally began taking climate change seriously, churning out electric vehicles by the thousands and building skyscrapers out of renewable timber, And the coolest place to film a prestige 1V show was suddenly.., Alberta? Commanding this weird, cool, occasionally scary new reality is a cohort of Canadians whose ideas and inventions are forging new industries and reinventing old ones-more than 100 of whom are catalogued in the following pages. There’s Kris Collins, a former hairdresser who entertains some 48 million Gen…

THE POWER LIST › SPORTS STARS

01Scottie Barnes POINT FORWARD, TORONTO RAPTORS THE RAPTORS’ SURPRISE SUPERSTAR IS TAKING THE POST-KAWHI TEAM TO NEW HEIGHTS It was 2021, and the Toronto Raptors were in a heap of trouble. The team had finished the season with a dismal record of 27-45, missing the playoffs for the first time in nearly a decade. The afterglow of their 2019 NBA championship was fading; it had been two years since megastar Kawhi Leonard went Hollywood, signing a contract with the Los Angeles Clippers. And though nobody knew it yet, Kyle Lowry, the team’s tireless leader, would soon decamp for the Miami Heat. Fortunately, in the NBA, mediocrity is rewarded during the draft. In each year’s player draft, the worst-performing teams pick first, a system designed to encourage parity in the league.…

THE POWER LIST › SPORTS STARS

THE POWER LIST › POLITICAL BACKROOMERS

01 Jenni Byrne CEO, JENNI BYRNE + ASSOCIATES POILIEVRE’S CHIEF ADVISER KNOWS HOW CANADIANS THINK—AND HOW THEY VOTE Pierre Poilievre’s 2022 Conservative Party leadership campaign sold more than 300,000 party memberships. It drew thousands of supporters at rallies in Edmonton and Calgary and more than a thousand to events in Vancouver, Windsor, Ottawa and elsewhere. When the votes and points were tallied, Poilievre wiped the floor with his opponents, cruising to victory with nearly 70 per cent support. These are wildly impressive figures for a leadership campaign, and they culminated in an impossible feat: uniting the bag of angry cats that is the Conservative Party of Canada, whose factions had spent the seven previous years mercilessly mauling each other. It was a campaign perfectly tailored to Poilievre’s strengths as an…

THE POWER LIST › POLITICAL BACKROOMERS

THE POWER LIST › AI TRAILBLAZERS

01 Alex Rodrigues CEO, EMBARK THIS ALBERTA WHIZ KID IS PUTTING SELF-DRIVING TRUCKS ON AMERICA’S HIGHWAYS Trucking is big business. In Canada alone, the industry generates nearly $70 billion in annual revenue and employs more than 200,000 people. In the U.S., nearly 3.5 million people make a living behind the wheel of a truck, each driving, on average, more than 160,000 kilometres per year and collectively consuming 54 billion gallons of gas. All those kilometres logged, and all that fuel burned, take a serious toll on drivers and the environment. Each time a truck stops, fuel costs rise, especially if truckers then drive faster to make up for lost time. Moreover, the trucking industry is at the mercy of its operators’ needs for sleep, food and bathroom breaks. Take drivers…

THE POWER LIST › AI TRAILBLAZERS

THE POWER LIST › REAL ESTATE REFORMERS

01 Mindy Wight and Khelsilem CEO, AYNCH’K¯’ DEVELOPMENT CORP; CHAIRPERSON, SQUAMISH NATION COUNCIL FOR PAIRING REAL ESTATE WITH RECONCILIATION Last fall, Squamish First Nation broke ground on Sen’ák¯ w, a massive, years-in-the-making housing development at the south end of Vancouver’s Burrard Bridge, on 10-plus acres of Squamish land. The project represented the largest economic partnership between a First Nation and the federal government in history, with the feds providing a $1.4-billion CMHC loan—also the largest ever. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Housing Minister Ahmed Hussen were both at the ceremony, of course, but they were accompanied by two local officials: Khelsilem, chairperson of the Squamish Nation Council and, off-camera, Mindy Wight, the CEO of Nch´k¯ ay’, the Nation’s business development arm. If Trudeau and Hussen embody the economic clout of…

THE POWER LIST › REAL ESTATE REFORMERS

THE POWER LIST › HEALTH CARE INNOVATORS

Canada’s doctors, nurses, hospitals and patients are in crisis. Here come the healers. 01 Alika Lafontaine PRESIDENT, CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION BEFORE, HE WAS JUST ONE DOCTOR. NOW, HE’S WORKING TO MAKE LIFE BETTER FOR ALL OF THEM. People often describe the calamity in Canadian health care in the same way a clinician might diagnose a bone or lung: fractured, broken, on the verge of total collapse. It’s also a story told largely from patients’ points of view. They lack access to GPs, contend with ER closures and interminable surgical backlogs—and sometimes die while watching the clock in the waiting area. But on the other side of the curtain, doctors are dealing with their own health problems and standing by helplessly as their personal lives are swallowed up by the sinkhole…

THE POWER LIST › HEALTH CARE INNOVATORS

THE POWER LIST › GAMING TYCOONS

01 Jade Raymond FOUNDER, HAVEN STUDIOS CANADA’S GAMING POWERHOUSE SET OUT TO DO HER OWN THING. THEN SONY CAME CALLING. Jade Raymond knows a thing or two about world-building. In the span of her two-decade career, the 47-year-old veteran developer from Montreal watched (and played along) as the standard for gaming technology rose from Mario—now in 3D!—to characters rendered in such uncanny detail that they could easily be mistaken for flesh-and-blood humans. Reality blurred even further during the pandemic, when gameplay morphed from an entertaining pastime to a full-blown social lifeline, whether in the form of a chaotic Fortnite battle royale or a friendly night-fishing expedition in Animal Crossing. In February of 2021, Raymond learned that Google would be shuttering Stadia, its in-house gaming operation, where she was VP. She saw…

THE POWER LIST › GAMING TYCOONS

THE POWER LIST › HOLLYWOOD NORTH STARS

01 Denis Villeneuve FILMMAKER FORGET STREAMING. THIS BLOCKBUSTER DIRECTOR WANTS TO SAVE THE SILVER SCREEN. Dune is Denis Villeneuve’s love letter to the big screen. The movie’s sweeping landscapes and colossal creatures are such that shrinking the size of the canvas would be like taking a battle-axe to Villeneuve’s giant-sandworm-sized ambition. Then along came a pandemic to do just that. Dune: Part One arrived in October of 2021 as part of “Project Popcorn,” an experiment by WarnerMedia in which the studio released all of its features simultaneously on HBO Max. It was a way to grow the new streaming service while appeasing COVIDwary audiences—but to Villeneuve, it was an unacceptable affront. And so the 55-year-old director did what any uncompromising, overprotective but also fundamentally Canadian artist would do: he wrote…

THE POWER LIST › HOLLYWOOD NORTH STARS

THE POWER LIST › FOOD TITANS

01 Galen G. Weston PRESIDENT, LOBLAW FOOD COSTS ARE SOARING IN GROCERY STORES. WHAT IS GALEN WESTON DOING ABOUT IT? Galen G. Weston knows us better than we know ourselves. As president of Loblaw, a subsidiary of George Weston Ltd., his roughly 2,500-location retail operation includes some two dozen grocery store and pharmacy banners like No Frills, Shoppers, T&T, Valu-mart, Zehrs and Real Canadian Superstore; virtual health care at PC Health; personal banking at PC Financial; and fast-fashion marvels at Joe Fresh. He knows what’s in our kitchen cupboards and medicine cabinets, and you’ll even likely receive eerily timed coupons for frequently purchased items in your inboxes and in-app offers. All that customer knowledge pays off: Loblaw makes $53 billion in annual sales, nearly twice that of Empire Co., its…

THE POWER LIST › FOOD TITANS

THE POWER LIST › EV ENTREPRENEURS

01 Marissa West PRESIDENT & MANAGING DIRECTOR, GM CANADA THIS MICHIGAN-RAISED AUTO EXEC IS HELPING CANADA USHER IN ITS EV REVOLUTION Canada is aiming to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, which means we’ll have to change how we get around—and fast. The transportation industry is among the largest contributors to Canada’s carbon footprint, spewing out some 22 per cent of emissions. Light-duty vehicles, including passenger cars, SUVs and pickups, account for 11 per cent on their own. That’s why, in 2021, the federal government mandated that by 2035, all passenger vehicles will need to be electric. Imagine a country in which the roads are packed with electric cars, and highways are dotted with charging stations instead of gas pumps. Canada is funnelling billions of dollars into realizing that…

THE POWER LIST › EV ENTREPRENEURS

THE POWER LIST › TIKTOK INFLUENCERS

01 Kris Collins @KALLMEKRIS THIS FORMER HAIRDRESSER IS ONE OF TIKTOK’S BIGGEST TALENTS It was October of 2022 and Kris Collins—a.k.a. KallMeKris, a.k.a. the most popular Canadian TikTok star on the planet, with 48 million followers—hopped a flight from Vancouver to Iceland. After two and a half years of nonstop writing, producing and starring in her own quick-hit comedy skits, she longed to go somewhere where she could get away from it all. She was travelling solo but wanted company, so she signed up for one of those sightseeing services. Her tourmates were mostly older travellers who had no idea of her online alter ego. When they met in the lobby, there was a bang on the window from outside. First one fist and then several, all belonging to teenage…

THE POWER LIST › TIKTOK INFLUENCERS

IN 2013, Tina Fetner and her husband, Lane Dunlop, were visiting a friend in the leafy Westdale neighbourhood of Hamilton, Ontario, when they stumbled across a for-sale sign on the lawn of a space-agelooking mid-century stucco bungalow. Hambly House—named for its first owner—was built in 1939, one of four remaining art moderne buildings in the Hamilton area attributed to designer Edward Glass. (Art moderne, a cousin of art deco, is known for its curves and horizontal lines.) Fetner, a sociology professor at McMaster University, and Dunlop, a retired music executive, discovered that the house had been sitting empty for a year in a state of shambolic disrepair. But its whimsical character attracted them, even though they weren’t looking for a new home. “The house just fits our personality,” says Fetner.…

“SO, THE VERY FIRST THING IS KIND OF A KICK IN THE ASS,” says Lori Simeunovic, who goes by Tarot Lori professionally, as she draws the Four of Cups. We’ve connected on a Sunday morning over Zoom to talk about her 35-year career in tarot, and when she offers to read for me, I can’t pass up the opportunity. The cups, she explains, represent love and abundance, but the worried figure on the card looks distracted. “This card is asking you to be more present. I call this a ‘cranky grandpa card’ because in my head, it has this old-man voice like Clint Eastwood,” she says, radiating Old Hollywood glamour with her Corvette-red lipstick and platinum-blonde hair in front of a shelf of crystals. I’d classify myself as tarot-agnostic,…

“My ex-husband discovered that I helped my daughters leave Iran. I had to flee next.”

IN 1978, MY PARENTS ARRANGED MY MARRIAGE. At 16 years old, I stood across from my new husband in my father’s house and became a wife. I was forced to leave school in Grade 9. Five years later, soon after I gave birth to our third daughter, my husband left me for another woman because I couldn’t bear him a son. I was still married to him, with few financial prospects, so some mothers in the neighbourhood raised money to send me to hairdresser school. They said, “Once you finish, we will be your customers.” I was thrilled: styling hair made me happy, and I found community at the salon. I re-entered high school at 23 years old, and the courses introduced me to Christianity. One Sunday morning I went to…

“My ex-husband discovered that I helped my daughters leave Iran. I had to flee next.”

@MediaplanetCA @HealthInsightCA Please recycle Creating a Better Cancer Care System Starts with Listening to Patients Canada’s cancer care system is already strained, yet faces escalating demand. Together, we must advocate for meaningful change to the system. Andrea Seale, CEO, Canadian Cancer Society A recent Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) survey of patients and caregivers revealed that three years into the pandemic, access to cancer care in Canada remains inconsistent and vital needs aren’t always being met. Among the concerns expressed were the impact of cancelled or postponed appointments, low confidence in receiving timely care for cancer-related emergencies, and the financial burden of cancer. Addressing an escalating need Addressing these challenges to our strained cancer care system has never been more important. In late 2022, in collaboration with Statistics Canada and the…

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