I’ve sold every handgun in stock since Canada’s proposed gun freeze was announced
“Targeting and attacking businesses like ours, and our customers, is not going to do anything to lessen crime in our streets,” says gun store owner Ryan Simper
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Shannon Proudfoot
Shannon Proudfoot is an Ottawa-based writer covering politics and public policy for Maclean’s. She loves writing people-focused narratives and bringing academic research into real life. She believes The Golden Girls is the greatest television show ever made.
How Anita Anand became the Trudeau government’s all-round fixer
Sexual misconduct in the military. A war in Ukraine. Canada’s global reputation at stake. It’s a good thing Anand knows how to solve problems.
After an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, these sisters became Tiktok stars
Two women in B.C. show that you can own your dementia—one irreverent TikTok at a time
Pierre Poilievre on his combative style of politics and his plans for Canada
In a rare in-depth interview the Conservative leadership frontrunner talks to Shannon Proudfoot about his politics, parenting, and making Canada ’the freest place in the world’
‘Justin, can you imagine?’: Zelensky’s virtual trip to Ottawa
Shannon Proudfoot: The Ukrainian leader and global folk hero addressed Parliament, asking for the world to do the one thing it refuses to do
Why Is Pierre Poilievre So Angry?
He’s smart, savvy and he’s steering a new brand of Canadian conservatism. How Pierre Poilievre became the champion of the anti-Trudeau mob.
This Canadian teenager wrote your favourite Frida Kahlo quote
The web has wrongly credited the brooding meditations of a Canadian teen to the artist Frida Kahlo. Is that necessarily a bad thing?
The story behind Marc-André Fleury’s Indigenous-designed helmet
The Chicago Blackhawks wanted to honour their Indigenous namesakes. Toronto-based Ojibwe artist Patrick Hunter explains the thinking behind the new helmet.
What is the Emergencies Act and what Ottawa can—and can’t—do with it
Shannon Proudfoot talks to author and expert Nomi Claire Lazar about the unprecedented powers of the Emergencies Act and the risks of using them
Their children’s lives have gone interrupted for years. Parents are fighting for a return to normalcy.
Hapless political leaders are experiencing the Old Testament wrath of moms and dads. Here’s why fed-up parents are on the Maclean’s Power List this year.