Dave Zarum

Habitat: A mid-century sanctuary by Ontario’s Chandos Lake 

“The words we kept using were quiet and calm”

I left Canada to live as a digital nomad in Istanbul. Here’s why.

“In Turkey, I can live in one of the world’s great metropolises—without breaking the bank”

Syringes, spoon, drugs on a black, dimly lit surface. High view. Concept of illegal substances, prohibited drugs, substance abuse, hidden, illegal traffic.

What is xylazine, the dangerous new drug fuelling Canada’s opioid crisis?

Kali Sedgemore, a harm-reduction worker in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, has seen its impact firsthand

Habitat: A B.C. construction worker sold his country house to build this floating home

“I had a choice: remain chained to a mortgage, or take on this new challenge”

“I’d die immediately”: Yellowjackets star Sophie Nélisse rates her wilderness survival skills

In time for season two of Showtime’s smash psychodrama, the Quebec-bred ingenue talks braving the Canadian outdoors, her newfound fame and those meat-eating scenes

For $4.8 million you can buy this nearly 400-acre historic Nova Scotia estate

The home was built by an American steel industrialist and recently refurbished by bookseller Nicholas Hoare

I’m a family doctor in Halifax. Pay-for-service clinics will burden the public system.

A renewed interest in pay-for-service clinics could restrict health care access for those who need it most

The Move: Two working parents trek from B.C. to N.B. in search of affordable childcare

An East Coast move relieved the Hingleys’ cumbersome daycare debt—and came with nice new neighbours

Andrea Loewen poses for a photograph in the home she shares with her friends in Vancouver, B.C. on March 26, 2023.

Why I gave up my condo and moved in with my best friend and her family

“We started a group chat called Modern Fam Jam to coordinate everything”

Filament founder Ben Lightburn saw an opportunity to leverage his team’s botanical extraction expertise to bring the first pharmaceutical-grade, naturally extracted psychedelics into the market.

Inside the Vancouver lab where scientists (legally) grow magic mushrooms 

The Filament Health facility looks like something out of The Last of Us

The Maclean’s University Guidebook is here to help

Introducing the ultimate guide on how to navigate the application process and get into the best school for you

University admissions roundtable

What universities really think about your application

We asked admissions officers from three top schools to talk about how they’re choosing this year’s class of students