Our predictions for 2024

What will next year bring? In Maclean’s annual edition of the Year Ahead, we try to answer that question with predictions about the people, ideas and events that will shape Canada in 2024. I confess: it is my favourite issue of the year. The writers and editors who work on this special issue make me feel much better informed and ready to tackle tomorrow.

In addition to our writers’ predictions, we invited some of the country’s smartest thinkers to lay out what we can expect in the coming year. Experts with deep knowledge in a variety of fields contributed essays on our shared future. Click here for the full list—and here are just a few:

Cities will make permanent room for encampments, by Stepan Wood, a Canada Research Chair in Law, Society and Sustainability at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia

Wildfire season will get more intense, by John Vaillant, author of Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World

Drug-resistant superbugs will become a deadly threat, by Gerry Wright, a professor of biochemistry and biomedical studies at McMaster University

Political extremism will find new ways to flourish, by Barbara Perry, director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism at Ontario Tech University

The Maclean’s Year Ahead issue is essential reading for anyone who cares about the country and where it’s headed.

—Sarah Fulford, editor-in-chief

"I would start my mornings sitting in my truck for an hour, staring at the big glass doors with my name on them, trying to muster whatever I needed to go into the office. It was usually the thought of drinking at the end of the day that got me through it." In this essay for Maclean's, former Bay Street lawyer Jason Ward writes about how he fell victim to the toxic workplace culture of the legal industry, and how he bounced back.

Sabra Gibbens is the only family doctor in a 2,000-person Ontario town. She says she's stretched too thin to be the doctor she wants to be. "I’m often too busy reacting to problems to be proactive with preventative measures—and I hate that. It pains me to know that there are likely patients out there with cancers going undetected, ones that could be caught and treated early, because I have no time to reach out."

For 20 years, Ottawa bus driver Noah Vineberg was embroiled in a sports gambling addiction so deep that he risked his family, his health and even his house

He quit gambling in 2018. But now he's inundated with sports-betting commercials and billboards—the kind of advertising blitz that could trigger addicts like him to relapse in one click.

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