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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, yellow type...[and] boxes at the top of the cover with headlines and pictures."

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Maclean's devoted its cover article to Steven Page this week, for an enormously sad profile of the Barenaked Ladies' lead singer, including the lead-up to his cocaine arrest earlier this month and the fall-out from it. To quote NOW publisher and "old friend" Michael Hollett, "I was stunned, absolutely not a clue that he could be in this position. Steve likes fine wine, you know? He drinks it in moderation. That's Steven." [via MyHogtown.]

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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, um, anything, really—did say that the articles caused "serious harm" to society with their "destructive, xenophobic opinions." That's nice. The Human Rights Commission is nice. Muslims are nice. It's very nice to live in Ontario.

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 thorough choice about the university they wish to attend." Strong words from U of T, which consistently ranks on top of the rankings but has been threatening this move for a while.