Jim Judd’s family has grown maple in Vermont for generations. He says reckless tariffs are turning his farm into a logistical mess.
Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs have rattled businesses across North America, small and large. Supply chains have been disrupted, prices are fluctuating, confusion reigns. At Maclean’s, we’re interested in what the tariff fallout looks like and how it’s impacting businesses on both sides of the border. Today, we published an eye-opening story by Jim Judd, an American maple syrup farmer in Vermont whose life has been upended by Trump’s tariffs. |
Judd lives close to the Canadian border, and every tool he needs for his business comes from Quebec, including special drills required to bore holes in maple trees. Trump’s tariff flip-flopping happened right at the beginning of Judd’s brief syrup harvesting season; the Canadian drill company couldn’t figure out how to invoice for orders, and shipments were delayed. It was a mess. “Canadians are my friends and my business partners,” says Judd, “and the way my country is treating them is unfathomable to me.” 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 |
February marked the launch of Build Canada, a website that loftily promised plans for a “bolder, richer, freer country,” where Canada’s entrepreneurs would publish their radical policy ideas. Meet the main brain behind the project—just don’t call it DOGE 2.0. |
Itala Fortes left Brazil to be with the man she loves in Sherbrooke, Quebec. But when Legault’s government cut funding for its French classes, she couldn’t access the program she needs to thrive. “The province insists that immigrants must learn French to integrate,” she writes in this essay for Maclean’s. “But how can we when the very programs we rely on disappear?” |
Rajni Perera, one of Canada’s most scintillating artists, has always thrived in chaos. When her daughter was born early in her career, Perera strapped her baby to her chest while painting in her studio. Since then, she’s become known for creating sci-fi visions of marginalized people weathering the apocalypse. In her latest exhibition, Perera’s colourful characters have mutated to survive harsh, climate-ravaged realms, like the pensive figure in Seated Sentinel (above), who has three eyes, each with stars as irises. Photographs of gas masks mingle with sculptures of red-gloved hands. This exhibition will make you think twice about leaving the tap on the next time you brush your teeth. —Isabel B. Slone |
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