It’s common knowledge that Toronto isn’t the most popular city amongst the rest of the country. Something about a superior attitude or being the centre of the universe. It’s a long-held belief, and one that Maclean’s was willing to exploit when it devoted a section of its April 1972 issue to the city. While the [...]

A new column for Maclean’s by Search Engine host Jesse Brown, slagging tax incentives for the Canadian video game industry, has sparked a heated discussion online—one greater than Brown may have expected. In a piece titled “Grand Theft Tax Break,” Brown argues that tax breaks for video game companies aren’t worthwhile for three reasons: the foreign [...]

This year, Toronto's reputation for tolerance was undermined. Racial stereotypes crept into our politics, our schools, and our media—and reminded us that our city is not magically immune from racism. Even more troubling: our muted reaction to many of these incidents.

In 2005, Maclean’s—the Canadian newsmagazine—got a redesign. In 2007, Time—the American newsmagazine—got one, too. And Maclean’s, in an editor’s note at the time, pretended to not be pissed off at their American competitor but obviously were, suggesting that Time had swiped all their good new ideas, like “more text, smaller pictures and headlines….black, white, red, [...]

In this occasional feature, two Torontoist staffers face off to debate an issue that is important to our city. We invite our readers to join in the debate in the comments section after the post. In October of 2006, Maclean’s magazine published an excerpt from writer Mark Steyn’s book, America Alone, which argued that demographics [...]

In a grudging acknowledgement that Canadians are still entitled to some measure of freedom of speech, the Ontario Human Rights Commission dismissed a complaint against Maclean’s magazine for articles critical of Islamic fundamentalism, saying the Commission had no jurisdiction over print. However, the Commission—whose members are not required to have training in law, journalism, or, [...]

Along with ten other universities across the country, including Dalhousie, McMaster, and UBC, the University of Toronto has bowed out of participating in Maclean’s annual university rankings survey. They cite Macleans’ “misuse of data in establishing a spurious “ranking” table that is, at best, useless and, at worst, misleading to students wishing to make a [...]