Maclean's

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

Say Local, Sell Global • How small businesses across Canada are using eBay to scale across borders

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

Electrifying Canada’s Drive to Zero Emissions • With sales of electric vehicles on the rise, a car manufacturer looks to make range anxiety a thing of the past

COMMENTS • READERS WEIGH IN

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THE INTERVIEW • Director Shawn Levy knows what you think about popcorn movies. He aims to please you anyway.

How Indigenous participation in forest management is changing resource development in Canada • The symbiotic relationship between the forest sector and Indigenous peoples is a fundamental part of growth and sustainability

Investment and career insights from women in asset management • Five women share their success strategies

Break the food-waste cycle • Many Canadians think throwing out food is an unfortunate fact of life. There’s no reason our waste couldn’t be close to zero.

Life Is a Highway • Instead of paying Vancouver rent prices, my husband and I chose to renovate an old ambulance and live in it. The open road suits us just fine.

MEETING THE DEMAND • A university degree should prepare students for postacademic life and future careers. That’s why Université de l’Ontario français (UOF) is launching several exciting new programs designed to provide employment opportunities and broaden career paths for prospective students.

The Princess of Darkness • How Toronto painter Jeanine Brito’s pretty-macabre creations turned her into an art-world darling

Victorian Era • From the time he was six, Stefan Palios dreamt of living in a castle. As the new co-owner of a seven-bedroom century home in Windsor, Nova Scotia, he’s closer to his wish than ever.

The future is now

Canada has been the spawning ground for the most important innovation of the 21st century.

We’ll develop new drugs in months, not decades • Our research team used machine learning to discover a new antibiotic. And that’s just the beginning.

AI-enabled SCAMS will proliferate • Ultra-realistic digital trickery will help fraudsters deceive people on an entirely new scale

The university essay will die out • AI will replace traditional forms of academic assessment—and create new ones

POLITICAL DEEPFAKES will spread confusion and misinformation • A flood of manipulative content will erode online trust and polarize voters

AI will transform the labour market • Many white-collar workers will find themselves out of jobs

Autonomous weapons will threaten humanity • Militaries will use AI to wage deadlier biological and chemical warfare. But what if the technology turns against us?

MACHINES will read OUR MINDS • AI brain sensors will translate our thoughts into speech, text or even other languages

Machines will make our food tastier and healthier • AI algorithms can reduce food waste, add more nutrition and solve some of our restaurant-staffing woes

Personalized, preventive medicine is on its way • We’ll use machine learning to predict illness before it starts, reducing pressure on the health-care system

ROBOTS will help cure LONELINESS • Social companions can read emotions and help with daily tasks

Hackers will use AI to orchestrate WORLDWIDE CYBERATTACKS • The new AI might help criminals take down power grids or infiltrate electric vehicle networks

Studios will steal artists’ faces and voices • AI-generated actors, singers and visual artists stand to replace the real thing

THE SEXBOTS are coming • In the next year or two, we’ll have...