Inside a new Toronto exhibit that spotlights colourful, funky cereal boxes, Nike shoes and more
| A Tour of Canada’s Coolest Collections | | When I was a kid, I had an impressive collection of novelty erasers. Every time I’d travel I’d buy an eraser as a souvenir. My collection was a joy-filled catalogue of my life, my preteen pride and joy. Cedric Sequerra, a Montreal photographer, owns a variety of collections—trading cards, Funko Pops, esoteric books and VHS tapes—that would put my old box of erasers to shame. He has photographed his collections in a dazzling Pop Art style and, this summer, they will be on display, in large-format prints, at the Beauchamp Art Gallery in Toronto. The show doesn’t only feature his own stuff. He’s taken cool, technicolor pictures of other people’s collections, too. One shows a radiant collection of iconic cereal boxes. Another one is an assembly of Nike running shoes, tangled up together in a flamboyant pile. At Maclean’s, we found his photos so delightful that we are featuring them in the upcoming July issue of the magazine, on newsstands June 13. –Sarah Fulford, editor-in-chief | | | | |
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| | | THE MOVE | | They Vowed Never To Buy Pre-Construction. Then They Did Anyway. | | During a cross-country vacation, Tanushree and Nishant fell in love with Calgary. The city’s most charming factor by far? Housing prices. Last March, they saw a good-looking listing in a newsletter from their realtor: a pre-construction freehold townhouse in Calgary’s Sage Hill neighbourhood, with a completion date just six months away and no maintenance fees. For $499,000, it was theirs. | | |
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| | | The Encampment Wars | | | | Dave Bradbury built a career as a unionized tradesman. He raised two daughters and lived a solidly middle-class life. But after construction sites shut down during COVID, he wound up living in a shelter. When he learned about a homeless encampment at Vancouver’s CRAB Park, he moved in. As the unhoused population has exploded in recent years and tent villages have popped up all over the country, sites like CRAB Park in Vancouver have become a focal point for tensions felt across Canada. In this feature from our June issue, go inside the encampment wars. | | |
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