The Best of 2025: Maclean’s Top 10 Interviews
Interviews are entertaining but extremely tight containers for the human psyche. Every month, my challenge is to quickly establish as much intimacy as a couple of hours of conversation will allow to reveal as much as possible about the Canadian personalities making news at that moment. This year, fortunately and unfortunately, I had two magic words in my arsenal to help me get them to open up and sound off: Donald Trump.
Whether their day job was defence, AI, soccer or something else, my Q&A subjects in 2025 were laser-focused on Canada’s sovereignty. B.C. Premier David Eby and Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet discussed their respective decisions to put aside petty party politics early on in the trade war and stand united, for the greater good, against Trump’s 51st-state delusions. Timothy Snyder, American historian and fascism expert, talked about abandoning the U.S. for Canada with his family; Vancouver sea-mining magnate Gerard Barron, on the other hand, sidled up to the States to get business moving. The only person without one or both eyes on America seemed to be astronaut Jeremy Hansen. His mind was on the moon.
It turns out character really is revealed in a crisis—we hope with readable, riveting and occasionally humorous results. Here, Maclean’s top interviews of the last 12 months.
–Katie Underwood, managing editor
The Man Who Wants to Mine the Ocean
Daniel Debow Wants Canada To Get Rich Quicker
How Diana Matheson Built a Pro League for Women’s Soccer Stars
Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet Is On Team Canada (For Now)
BlackBerry’s Matt Johnson Is Still an Indie Kid Inside
Evan Solomon Is the Opposite of an AI Doomer
David Eby is Ready for a Trade War
Timothy Snyder Has Seen Tyrants Like Trump Before
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