Meet the woman making sure of it
For months, Canadians have had their eyes locked on the border, anxiously anticipating what fresh, destabilizing hell America’s mercurial president will visit upon us next. Way up north, meanwhile, another turf war is brewing as Russia, China and, yes, the U.S. slowly encroach on Canada’s third (and largest) coast. As global warming melts our natural icy defences—opening up new shipping routes and access to critical minerals—we’ve been forced to find new ways to protect our Arctic interests. That’s Jennie Carignan’s territory. Carignan, appointed last summer as the chief of the defence staff (its first female in the role), is no stranger to danger. She helped defuse land mines in Bosnia’s farm fields, kept the peace in the Golan Heights and led NATO forces in Iraq during her trailblazing three-decade career in the Canadian Armed Forces. Now, General Carignan—and the nearly 95,000 military members under her command—faces threats on a few fronts: online (disinformation), on Earth (new tensions with our oldest ally) and in space (if you can process that). I spoke with Carignan recently for an interview for Maclean’s and learned that she’s on track to hit her recruitment quota for the year—a sign that she’s not the only one interested in defending Canada these days. Visit macleans.ca for more coverage of everything that matters in Canada, and subscribe to the magazine here. —Katie Underwood, managing editor, Maclean’s |
Defence chief Jennie Carignan |
Claire Brosseau suffers from crushing mental illness and wants to end her life on her own terms. But in 2023, the government stalled its plans to offer MAID to people like her. So she and a lobby group, Dying With Dignity Canada, launched a lawsuit arguing that withholding MAID from the mentally ill violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The case seeks to definitively answer the most fundamental question in the debate around MAID: who has the right to die? The ethics are muddy, the country is divided and the world is watching Canada’s next move. Read Luc Rinaldi’s feature story for a comprehensive look inside the crusade for psychiatric MAID. |
When British documentary photographer Andrew Jackson moved to Montreal in 2017, he did what he always does in a new city: he googled, “Where are the Black spaces?” The question led him to Little Burgundy, a historically Black neighbourhood in southwest Montreal. What started as a casual visit to the area became the focus of Jackson’s latest photo series, which runs until September 28 at Montreal’s McCord Stewart Museum. Here, Jackson shares some of the stories behind his photographs. |
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As Trump’s tariffs loom, Graham Palmateer has cut California tomatoes and Coca-Cola from the menu of his west-end Toronto spot, Gram’s Pizza. “I decided to use the little power I have, the power of my dollar, to vote against the political actions of the United States,” he writes in this essay for Maclean’s. But figuring out supply chains is tricky—and he’s been forced to accept that a complete divorce from American goods isn’t yet possible. |
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