Colin Horgan is a Toronto-based writer. He is a frequent contributor to the Guardian, and was formerly a writer for CTV and a parliamentary reporter for iPolitics.ca in Ottawa. His writing has ...

Meagan Campbell is based at the Ottawa bureau, where she writes about politics and the people behind it. In the past, she's worked with The Atlantic Monthly, The Spectator (U.K.) and CBC Radio. She'll ...

Charlie Gillis is Maclean's managing editor (national). He’s a winner of gold and silver National Magazine Awards, and his bosses once forgot about him after sending him to cover the climbing season ...

My job as a family physician in small-town British Columbia is a dream come true. It’s also nearly impossible to do. Len ...

Mary Dwyer is a senior editor at Maclean’s, responsible for the popular but controversial university rankings. She also works on the Canadian Universities Guidebook and Colleges Guidebook. She began ...

Running a restaurant is financially tough, though: we have to cover wages, rent, increasing food prices, alcohol taxes, fees ...

Senior correspondent Jonathon Gatehouse has covered wars, natural disasters, politics, sports, entertainment, business and everything in-between for Maclean's. He is also the author of The Instigator: ...

Mercer soon realized he still had many miles left in the tank. When his friend Jann Arden, another CanCon icon turned author, released a book of her own, the two teamed up for a series of live ...

I spent 21 years in Hamilton schools. Drastic budget cuts and a rise in violence caused me to leave that world for good. I started as an educational assistant, or EA, in Hamilton in 2002, when I ...

John Macfie grew up in the 1920s and ’30s on a family farm in Dunchurch, Ontario, with his father, a schoolteacher mother who owned a camera, and six siblings. He later flew planes for the Royal ...

When Sarika Ghag and her husband, Happy Ghag, married in 2010, they both wanted a home with a huge backyard, where they could raise kids on a steady diet of sunshine, exercise and fresh air.

My family and I were denied housing, car rentals and even hotel reservations, all because we didn’t have a credit card. I’ve wanted to travel the world since I was a teenager. In 2009, after ...