This student moved into a retirement home in Calgary, where she gets affordable housing and seniors get companionship
Even the most ambitious federal plans to build housing stock across Canada will take years, maybe decades, to implement. In the meantime, Canadians have to squeeze a growing population into existing homes, condos and apartments. That takes innovation. A Calgary-based nonprofit called the Canadian Alliance for Intergenerational Living presents one smart solution. It offers students affordable housing in vacant units at a retirement community—an arrangement that sounds like fertile ground for an oddball Netflix comedy. Apparently it’s a win-win for everyone involved. Shannon Penner, a 45-year-old student at the University of Calgary who now lives with seniors, has written about her experience for Maclean’s. She pays an astoundingly low $530 per month in rent for a 430-square-foot studio in a retirement home with a bathroom and kitchenette. In exchange for cheap rent, she volunteers for 30 hours per month with residents. Now she’s a big advocate for this unconventional model. “Younger people gain access to affordable housing, and seniors receive companionship,” she says. —Sarah Fulford, editor-in-chief, Maclean’s |
It’s official: yesterday, Justin Trudeau announced plans to resign as prime minister once the Liberal party chooses a new leader. What’s next? In this essay for Maclean’s, journalist Stephen Maher lays out what Canada could look like under Pierre Poilievre, who will likely lead a majority Conservative government by the end of this year. |
Physician Amol Verma helped create AI software that cuts unexpected hospital deaths by 26 per cent. He believes it’s just the beginning. “By the end of 2025, many doctors will be using AI,” Verma writes in this essay for Maclean’s. Here’s why this change could give Canada’s notoriously overworked health-care system some much-needed breathing room. |
In 2025, AI will continue to loom large, worming its way into health care, public education and even wildfire prevention. Canadians will fight back-to-office mandates and embrace right-to-disconnect laws. First Nations communities will become the new Bay Street power players. And in the midst of inevitable political turmoil down south, a new season of fungus monsters on The Last of Us will remind us that things could always be worse. Here are 100 predictions about the people, trends, ideas and everything else that will matter this year. |
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