In Windsor, Ontario, lives, careers and family ties transcend the Canada-U.S. border. Trump’s trade war is an existential threat.
Dan Wells, who runs the successful independent press Biblioasis, jokingly tells people that he lives and works in “South Detroit.” He actually lives in Windsor, but the two cities are so intertwined they are often considered one metropolis. Now the White House’s tariffs—including 50 per cent levies on steel and aluminum—have effectively pitted Windsor and Detroit against each other. |
Jason McBride, one of Canada’s best magazine feature writers, happens to be a big Windsor fan. He wrote a piece in the July issue of Maclean’s about how the two enmeshed border cities are coping with the trade war that is dividing them. He writes: “Detroit is where many Windsorites have friends and romantic partners. It’s where their kids play in hockey tournaments. It’s where they go to dine or to watch major-league sports. It’s where more than 5,000 people from Windsor’s metropolitan area commute every day, including nearly 2,000 health-care professionals.” And of course, the two urban centres are part of one enormous shared auto industry.
McBride’s story is a fascinating portrait of the consequences of Trump’s punishing tariffs in a pair of cities where families, businesses and relationships have suddenly been torn apart. Visit macleans.ca for more coverage of everything that matters in Canada, and subscribe to the magazine here. —Sarah Fulford, editor-in-chief, Maclean’s |
Many Canadians don’t realize that smartphones depend on resources found right here in Canada: copper, lithium, tin, cobalt, rare earths and more. These are among the 34 rare-earth minerals that the federal government has designated as critical—vital to our economy and crucial for technologies needed in our transition to a low-carbon future. But where is the Canadian Samsung, or Hyundai, or LG? If we started transforming our critical minerals into final products, we could produce the technology of the future, writes Ian M. London in this essay for Maclean’s. |
In Bathurst, New Brunswick, along the shores of Youghall Beach in Chaleur Bay, the seasons can be brutal. Instead of resisting the area’s horizontal rainstorms and the slow, corrosive work of salt, Chelsie and Joshua Jenks built their home in tandem with the natural world: when viewed from a distance, the boxy, sand-coloured house practically disappears into the shoreline. Here, a look inside their minimalist retreat. |
After two years of sold-out shows around the world for 2023’s Queen of Me tour and at her Las Vegas residency, Shania Twain is still in high demand—so much so that she added a 17-stop encore this summer, plus a performance on horseback at the opening of the Calgary Stampede. Fans can expect a mashup of Twain’s latest album and her chart-toppers, as well as special country guest stars like Kip Moore, Lindsay Ell and MacKenzie Porter. Twain, an admitted workaholic, has vowed that this will be the last leg of the year. Then she’ll head back into the studio to write new music. —Rosemary Counter |
Chef Patrice Demers and sommelier Marie-Josée Beaudoin knew they had a hit on their hands months before Sabayon even opened. After the duo tested their tasting menu concept during a two-month stint at Brooklyn’s Fulgurances Laundromat in the spring of 2023, word spread, and Montrealers were soon making pilgrimages to the pop-up. That summer, they opened a 14-seat jewel box in Pointe-Sainte Charles, a residential neighbourhood on the banks of the St. Lawrence. The restaurant is just them: Demers prepping his carefully choreographed courses in the kitchen, Beaudoin pouring wines from her meticulously crafted list. Reservations open up monthly and sell out within minutes. Then, on Friday and Saturday afternoons, guests settle in for a tea service that goes above and beyond your standard scone and Earl Grey affair. It’s a quieter kind of hospitality: no gimmicks, no egos, just two pros doing their thing for 14 lucky guests at a time. Just don’t forget to set an alarm for when reservations drop on the restaurant’s website. For more about Sabayon—plus a look at more of the country’s most exciting culinary destinations—check out this bucket list of homegrown restaurants, chefs and dishes to experience this summer. |
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