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1 month ago | macleans.ca | Jenna Mohammed

In recent years, B.C. has experienced some of the most destructive wildfire seasons in its history. Warming temperatures, drier conditions, invasive species such as pine beetles and a past ban on Indigenous fire stewardship practices, such as prescribed burns, which has only recently been loosened, have meant forests are less resistant to fires than they once were. So how do we recover from wildfires and reduce threats in the future?

1 month ago | macleans.ca | Courtney Shea

Douglas Cowgill has spent the last decade helping Canadian-Americans renounce their U.S. citizenship. And in the new Trump era, as more Americans consider cutting ties, he’s become a hot commodity. “There’s no question, we’ve gotten a huge uptick in requests,” says Cowgill, although politics are just part of it (see also: paperwork). Here, he describes what’s involved in an official renunciation and why Trump-era border policies are changing the calculation.

1 month ago | macleans.ca | Emily Landau

Pierre Poilievre can’t shut up. He’s a proud and pugnacious loudmouth, promising to eliminate red tape restricting new housing, slash government spending and cut taxes. He has an opinion on everything—except, it seems, for private health care. Poilievre has kept bizarrely mum on the subject. It’s a weird time to stay silent. Canada’s ERs are packed like pickle jars. Patients are paying for care in other countries, rather than waiting for specialists and appointments.

1 month ago | macleans.ca | David Moscrop

It’s a good time to be in Canada’s oil and gas industry. For all Canadians’ professed concern about climate change, the O&G business managed record revenues in 2022 and 2023, with a near-record projected for 2025. But if the CPC wins the next election, that’ll be just the beginning. A Poilievre government will pursue a light-regulation, fossil-fuel-boosting, drill-baby-drill agenda. It’ll also have cross-partisan support, thanks to growing calls for Canada to assert sovereignty over its resources.

1 month ago | macleans.ca | Philip Preville

Canada’s not for sale. Maclean’s is. Subscribe todayIn 2021, the federal government established an official list of 34 critical minerals and metals—including nickel, cobalt, copper and lithium—that are essential to Canada’s economic security and our role in global supply chains. They’re found in almost every province and territory and used in products like smartphones, photovoltaic cells, semiconductors and electric vehicles.