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Moshe Safdie wants Canada to rebuild its sense of adventure

“The public often thinks a building can be functional but ugly as hell. To me, that’s impossible.”

Before architectural giant Moshe Safdie donated over 100,000 archival items—and his Habitat 67 apartment—to McGill University (making his collection the school's largest), the author of If Walls Could Speak sat down with Maclean’s to discuss his life, legacy & works— and his new memoir, which is an account of the complex politics involved in any major building project, and an expression of Safdie’s lifelong belief that architecture can, and must, be a force for social good.

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The Move: Why this veterinarian left P.E.I. for New Brunswick

Adele Doucet grew up in Memramcook, a small but scenic Acadian village southeast of Moncton. In 2015, she left the province to attend the Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown. After graduation, Doucet was eager to return to New Brunswick. “There was a small Acadian community in P.E.I., but it wasn’t the same,” she says. Read More

Inside UBC’s new Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre

In June, Formline became the first Indigenous-led firm to win the Governor General’s Medal in Architecture for its work. Go behind the blueprints with architect Alfred Waugh, who’s one of just 20 Indigenous architects currently registered in Canada and specializes in harmonizing seeming opposites. “I try to bring Indigenous ways of knowing together with Western knowledge,” he says. Read More

How to fix our broken health care system

“What better case study for the dangers and failures of a for-profit health care model than our long-term care and retirement homes?” UHN social medicine director Dr. Andrew Boozary explains why privatization isn't the solution for our health care crisis and prescribes a more sustainable solution. Read More

Ken Dryden looks back on the Summit Series fifty years later

He calls it “the biggest stakes game ever played.” And for the 16 million Canadians who tuned into the final game between Canada and the USSR in the legendary 1972 exhibition series would likely agree. In this Q&A, the Team Canada heroic netminder explains why it was so important for Canadians then and now. Read More

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A complete guide to our roller-coaster economy

This is a uniquely confusing economic time. Ballooning inflation, mounting debt, a massive labour shortage, a distorted housing market—and have you seen gas prices? How did everything get to be so fiscally wacky, seemingly all at once? And how can we make it all better?

In the September 2022 issue, Maclean’s got 11 big thinkers to break down everything you need to know to understand Canada's economy right now:

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