August 2025 Issue

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Confessions of the Working Poor

I work hard, buy quality clothes and fake my way through dinner-party conversations. I’m also part of a fast-growing Canadian underclass.

A woman in a blue shirt with a dog behind her, its nose buried in a snuffle mat

I Moved to Canada and Launched a Company. Then the Tariffs Hit.

When I started selling dog toys from my basement, I had to remortgage my house and take out a loan to make it work.

A bridge cuts between greenery and two dark wooden houses with windows below the roof

Inside an Ecohome on Stilts in Nova Scotia

A young family built cube-like sheds in the ecologically protected Barrens

Landscape photo of the border town of Tecate, with a fence dividing the arid valley

How Migrants Cross Trump’s U.S.-Mexico Wall

Canadian photographer Isabelle Hayeur has been documenting the growing crisis on America’s southern border

Close-up of Yves-Francois Blanchet resting his head on his hands

Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet Is On Team Canada (For Now)

The face of Quebec’s sovereignty movement has called a Trump-induced truce