Big, bold, juicy magazine articles that you may have missed this year
Big, bold, juicy longform magazine articles are at the heart of what we do at Maclean’s. Throughout 2024, we published a lot of blockbuster stories that captured the attention of the Canadian public. The credit goes to our excellent writers. They work incredibly hard, reporting and writing and sculpting their pieces into irresistible and enlightening stories. It’s no surprise to me that two of the most popular articles of the year focus on the intimate sociological implications of our current economic reality: Courtney Shea’s deep dive into the country’s declining birth rate revealed that pressures around cost of living has led many Canadian families to choose to have just one kid. And the best-read piece of the year is Katrina Onstad’s story about Canada’s trillion-dollar wealth transfer. It hit a nerve with millennials who believe they need an inheritance from their boomer parents before they can achieve financial independence and stability. Did you miss any of our 10 most-read longform stories of 2024? You can read them here over the holidays. Or, better yet, subscribe to Maclean’s and get it delivered straight to your home 11 times a year for just $39.99. A treat for yourself or someone you love. —Sarah Fulford, editor-in-chief, Maclean’s |
The Canadian conversation covered every conceivable topic this year: political polarization, our crumbling health-care system, the dangers of climate change, Indigenous reconciliation. Maclean’s managing editor and chief interviewer Katie Underwood was there to help readers make sense of it all. Here, our top 10 interviews of 2024. |
Last July, one of the world’s largest cybersecurity firms, CrowdStrike, released a routine software update containing a bug that crashed 8.5 million computers worldwide. It was the largest IT outage in history, grounding 17,000 flights, preventing doctors from accessing medical records, interrupting 911 services and plunging broadcasters into blackouts. Such massive outages are rare, but here’s why smaller outages and data breaches will happen more often in 2025. |
Pop art is more than just Campbell’s soup cans. While certain 1960s American counterculture classics—like Roy Lichtenstein’s comic-like panels and Andy Warhol’s Marilyn paintings—hog public perception, pop art, in fact, burst onto the scene a decade earlier in British academic circles. An ironic blend of high and low is pop art’s only real parameter; within that, most anything goes. More than 100 examples are on display at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, including Lichtenstein’s “Drowning Girl,” who’d rather sink than call Brad for help; Banksy’s grannies, knitting cozy sweaters that say “Punk’s Not Dead” and “Thug for Life”; and, of course, to appease the pop art populists, Warhol’s tomato soup cans. —Rosemary Counter |
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