Who are baby boomers, Gen X, millennials and Gen Z?
Tastes and habits may vary from person to person, but every cohort has its calling cards
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What is ’Generation Alpha’?
Yes, we’re back to the beginning of the alphabet. But with their brains and interconnectedness, the next generation has a huge head start.
What Cristine Rotenberg would do with an extra day
2020 is a leap year. What would a Canadian YouTube star with more than 7 million subscribers do on the extra day? She’d go into ghost mode.
What Jillian Vanstone would with an extra day
2020 is a leap year. What would a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada do on a leap day? Have a chat or several.
What Matt Galloway would do with an extra day
2020 is a leap year. What would the new host of CBC’s ’The Current’ do with his extra day? Surprisingly, he would not catch up on sleep.
What these famous Canadians would do with their leap day
2020 is a leap year. P.K. Subban, Jagmeet Singh, Elizabeth May and Aurora Browne on what they’d do with their whole extra day.
From haircuts to jumpsuits, we’re moving toward gender neutrality
Expect the movement to change the messages we hear, the forms we fill out and the products we buy. But not without pushback.
My 2020 prediction: Nothing matters and everything will be okay
Scott Gilmore: There will be relentless news of catastrophes, political scandals, economic woes and social strife. Pay no attention.
Some of the best Maclean’s reads of 2019
2019 saw our journalists cover political scandal, domestic violence, the housing crisis, multiple harrowing tales of rescue, climate change, Indigenous issues, one of the biggest sports wins of the decade and much more
The end of the oven
Before You Go: Herewith, an affectionate roast of the increasingly obsolete amenity that has warmed our hearts (and hams) for more than a century