From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Maclean’s
Maclean’s
"Macleans" redirects here. For the toothpaste, see can periodicals. It sold 6,000 copies. Inside its bright blue
GlaxoSmithKline. cover, the fledgling monthly anointed itself, "the Cream
of the World’s magazines reproduced for Busy People."
Maclean’s Its aim, Maclean wrote a year later, was not "merely to
entertain but also to inspire its readers."[citation needed] It
was renamed The Busy Man’s Magazine in December 1905,
and began soliciting original manuscripts on varied top-
ics such as immigration, national defence, home life,
women’s suffrage, as well as fiction.[citation needed] Maclean
renamed the magazine after himself in 1911, dropping
the previous title as too evocative of a business magazine
for what had become a general interest publication.[cita-
tion needed]
Maclean hired Thomas B. Costain as editor in 1917.
Costain invigorated the magazine’s coverage of the First
World War, running first-person accounts of life on the
Cover of Maclean’s, September 22, 2008 issue. Western Front and critiques of Canada’s war effort that
came into conflict with wartime censorship regulations.
Editor-in-Chief Kenneth Whyte Costain was ordered to remove an article by Maclean
and Publisher
himself as it was too critical of war policy.[citation needed]
Categories News magazine Costain encouraged literary pieces and artistic ex-
pressions and ran fiction by Robert W. Service, Lucy
Frequency Weekly
Maud Montgomery, and O. Henry; commentary by
Total circulation 340,610[1] Stephen Leacock and illustrations by C. W. Jefferys, F.S.
(2011) Coburn, and several Group of Seven members, including
First issue 1905[2] as The Business Magazine A. J. Casson, Arthur Lismer, and J. E. H. MacDonald.[4]
1911[3] as Maclean’s In 1919, the magazine moved from monthly to fort-
nightly publication and ran a notable exposé of the drug
Company Rogers Communications
trade by Emily Murphy. Costain left the magazine to be-
Country Canada come a novelist and was replaced by J. Vernon Mackenzie
who remained at the helm until 1926. During his tenure,
Based in Toronto, Ontario
Maclean’s achieved national stature.[citation needed]
Language English After Mackenzie, H. Napier Moore became the new
Website www.macleans.ca
editor. An Englishman, he saw the magazine as an ex-
pression of Canada’s role in the British Empire. Moore ul-
ISSN 0024-9262 timately became a figurehead with the day-to-day run-
ning of the magazine falling to managing editor W.
Maclean’s is a Canadian weekly news magazine, reporting Arthur Irwin, a Canadian nationalist, who saw the mag-
on Canadian issues such as politics, pop culture, and cur- azine as an exercise in nation-building, giving it a man-
rent events. date to promote national pride. Under Irwin’s influence,
the magazine’s covers promoted Canadian scenery and
History imagery. The magazine also sponsored an annual short
story contest on Canadian themes and acquired a sports
Founded in 1905 by Toronto journalist and entrepreneur department. Irwin was also responsible for orienting the
Lt.-Col. John Bayne Maclean, a 43-year-old trade maga- magazine towards both small and big "L" Liberalism.
zine publisher who purchased an advertising agency’s in- During the Second World War, Maclean’s ran an over-
house business journal, along with its 5,000-strong sub- seas edition for Canadian troops serving abroad. By the
scription base.[citation needed] The Business Magazine, was time of its final run in 1946, the "bantam" edition had
launched in October of that year as a pocket-sized digest a circulation of 800,000. Maclean’s war coverage featured
of articles gathered from Canadian, British, and Ameri-
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war photography by Yousuf Karsh, later an internation- of February 2005 and was replaced by Kenneth Whyte,
ally acclaimed portrait photographer, and articles by war who also serves as the magazine’s publisher. The maga-
correspondents John Clare and Leonard Shapiro. zine has been owned by the Rogers Communications con-
Irwin officially replaced Moore as editor in 1945, and glomerate since Rogers acquired Maclean-Hunter, the
reoriented the magazine by building it around news fea- former publisher, in 1994.
tures written by a new stable of writers that included Whyte, who previously edited Saturday Night and the
Pierre Berton, W.O. Mitchell, Scott Young, Ralph Allen, National Post, brought a new, arguably conservative, focus
and Blair Fraser. to the magazine, bringing in conservative columnist
Allen became editor upon Irwin’s acceptance of a Mark Steyn, hiring Andrew Coyne away from the Post,
diplomatic posting in 1950. This era of the magazine was and rehiring Barbara Amiel. He also added a comedy fea-
noted for its articles on the Canadian landscape and pro- ture by former Liberal Party strategist Scott Feschuk, and
files of town and city life. The feature article, "Canada’s a column by Andrew Potter, who previously wrote for left
North," by Pierre Berton, promoted a new national in- leaning periodicals.
terest in the Arctic. Prominent writers during this period
included Robert Fulford, Peter Gzowski, Peter C. New-
man, Trent Frayne, June Callwood, McKenzie Porter, and
University Ranking Guide
Christina McCall. Exposés in the 1950s challenged the
criminal justice system, explored LSD, and artificial in-
semination.
Maclean’s published a memorable editorial the day af-
ter the 1957 federal election announcing the predictable
re-election of the St. Laurent Liberal Party. Written be-
fore the election results were known, Allen failed to an-
ticipate the upset election of John Diefenbaker’s Progres-
sive Conservative Party.
The magazine struggled to compete with television in
the 1960s by increasing its international coverage and at-
tempting to keep up with the sexual revolution through
a succession of editors including Gzowski and Charles
Templeton. Templeton quit after a short time at the helm
due to his frustration with interference by the publishing
company, Maclean-Hunter.
In 1961, Maclean’s began publishing a French-lan-
guage edition, Le Magazine Maclean, which survived until
1976, when the edition was absorbed by L’actualité.
Peter C. Newman became editor in 1971, and attempt-
ed to revive the magazine by publishing feature articles
by writers such as Barbara Frum and Michael Enright,
and poetry by Irving Layton. Walter Stewart, correspon-
dent and eventually managing editor during this period,
often clashed with Newman. In 1975 Newman brought in Cover of 2008 Guide to Canadian Universities
columnist Allan Fotheringham. Fotheringham made fa-
mous The Back Page, where he wrote for 27 years. Readers The Maclean’s Guide to Canadian Universities is published
would go to read the Back Page first and then proceed to annually in March. It is also known as Maclean’s University
read the magazine from back to front. Guide. It includes information from the Maclean’s Univer-
Under Newman, the magazine switched from being a sity Rankings, an issue of the magazine proper that is
monthly general interest publication to a bi-weekly news published annually in November, primarily for students
magazine in 1975, and to a weekly newsmagazine three in their last year of high school and entering their first
years later. The magazine opened news bureaus across year in Canadian universities. Both the Guide and the
the country and in international bureaus in London, Eng- rankings issue feature articles discussing Canadian uni-
land, and Washington, D.C..[citation needed] versities and ranking them by order of quality. The rank-
ings focus on taking a measure of the "undergraduate ex-
Current perience," comparing universities in three peer groupin-
gs: Primarily Undergraduate, Comprehensive, and Medi-
In 2001, Anthony Wilson-Smith became the fifteenth ed- cal Doctoral.
itor in the magazine’s history. He left the post at the end
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Schools in the Primarily Undergraduate category are The National Reputational Rankings, like the main
largely focused on undergraduate education, with rela- university rankings, are broken into three subcategories:
tively few graduate programs. Comprehensives have a medical doctoral, comprehensive, and primarily under-
significant amount of research activity and a wide range graduate and are based on opinions of the quality of the
of graduate and undergraduate programs, including pro- universities. The quality opinions gathered were contrib-
fessional degrees. Medical Doctoral institutions have a uted by secondary school principals, guidance coun-
broad range of PhD programs and research, as well as selors, organization and company heads, and recruiters.
medical schools. The results of the reputational rankings are included in
In early 2006, Maclean’s announced that in June 2006, the main university rankings, and account for 16% of a
it would be introducing a new annual issue called the university’s total ranking score.
University Student Issue. The issue would feature the re-
sults of a survey of recent university graduates from each
Canadian university. However, many universities, such
Canada’s Top 100 Employers
as the University of Calgary, McMaster University, and Maclean’s is also well-known for announcing the annual
the University of Toronto, refused to take part in this ex- list of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, which is featured in
ercise. The three institutions stated that they questioned a special issue each October.[9] First published by Ma-
the "magazine’s ability to conduct a survey that would clean’s in 2002, this issue profiles the winners of an annual
be rigorous and provide accurate and useful information competition to determine Canada’s best places to work.
to students and their parents."[5] In response, Maclean’s The competition is open to employers of all sizes, both
sought the results of two university-commissioned stu- private- and public-sector. Winners are selected using a
dent surveys: the Canadian Undergraduate Survey Con- variety of criteria, which range from forward-thinking
sortium (CUSC) and the National Survey of Student En- human resource policies to progressive community in-
gagement (NSSE).[6] Results from these surveys, along volvement projects that make use of employees’ tal-
with Maclean’s own graduate survey, were published in ents.[10] Detailed reasons for each employer’s selection
the June 26, 2006, edition of Maclean’s. are published in an annual paperback by an outside firm,
For the November 2006 University Rankings issue, 22 which manages the Canada’s Top 100 Employers compe-
Canadian universities refused to provide information di- tition and provides the research to Maclean’s.[11] A distin-
rectly to Maclean’s. To rank those universities, the mag- guished panel of academic advisors, drawn from univer-
azine relied on data it collected itself, as well as data sities across Canada, oversees the selection criteria for
drawn from third party sources such as Statistics Cana- the annual competition.[12]
da.[citation needed] Among the universities that refused to
provide information directly to Maclean’s in the fall of
2006 were: University of British Columbia, University of
Controversy
Toronto, Dalhousie University, McMaster University,
University of New Brunswick, University of Manitoba,
Canadian Islamic Congress complaint
Université du Québec network, Simon Fraser University, Main article: Canadian Islamic Congress human rights
University of Alberta, University of Calgary, University of complaint against Maclean’s Magazine
Lethbridge, Ryerson University, Université de Montréal, In December 2007, the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC)
University of Ottawa, York University, Concordia Univer- launched complaints with the Canadian Human Rights
sity, University of Western Ontario, Lakehead University, Commission, British Columbia Human Rights Commis-
Queen’s University, Carleton University, and University sion, and the Ontario Human Rights Commission against
of Windsor. The withholding of data served as a means of Maclean’s accusing it of publishing 18 articles between
voicing the universities’ displeasure with the methodolo- January 2005 and July 2007 that they considered Islamo-
gy used to determine the Maclean’s ranking.[7] Indira Sa- phobic in nature including a column by Mark Steyn titled
marasekera, president of The University of Alberta, fur- "The future belongs to Islam."[13][14][15] According to the
ther discussed this in the article, "Rising Up Against CIC complaint (as discussed in a National Post article by
Rankings," published in the April 2, 2007, issue of Inside Ezra Levant): Maclean’s is "flagrantly Islamophobic" and
Higher Ed.[8] "subjects Canadian Muslims to hatred and contempt."[16]
The University Rankings Issue contains a compilation In contrast, Levant says of the complainants that they are
of different charts and lists judging the different aspects "illiberal censors who have found a quirk in our legal sys-
of universities in different categories. The three main ar- tem, and are using it to undermine our Western tradi-
eas listed in chart form in the University Rankings Is- tions of freedom."[16] On October 10, 2008, the B.C. Hu-
sue as at November 3, 2006, are: the overall rankings man Rights Tribunal dismissed the allegations of "hate
themselves, the university student surveys, and the mag- speech" made by the Canadian Islamic Congress.[citation
needed] Maclean’s consistently took the position that
azine’s "national reputational rankings" of the schools.
Steyn’s article, an excerpt from his best-selling book,
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America Alone, is a worthy contribution to an important It’s true that we lack a statistical database to prove
debate on geopolitical and demographic issues, and that beyond a shadow of a doubt that Quebec is an outli-
complaintant’s demands for equal space for a rebuttal er among the provinces. But that does not mean we
was unreasonable and untenable.[17] are required to suspend all judgment in the face of
a preponderance of evidence—scandal after scan-
Quebec controversy dal at every level of government in the province, all
The October 4, 2010, edition of the magazine — web-pub- of them involving not just one or two bad actors but
lished September 24, 2010 — had a cover article with systemic corruption.[23]
the headline: "Quebec: The Most Corrupt Province," with
Maclean’s editors also note that "none of our critics has
the subheading inside the magazine, "Why does Quebec
mounted a credible case that any other province better
claim so many of the nation’s political scandals?". The
deserves the title of worst in class."[23] Moreover, not all
cover illustration featured the Quebec Winter Carnival
opinion in Quebec runs contrary to Maclean’s position.
mascot, Bonhomme, carrying a suitcase overflowing with
The French-language "La Presse, the province’s leading
cash.[18][19] This depiction angered some Quebec politi-
broadsheet, wrote that … [Maclean’s] claim that Quebec
cians and organizers of the Carnival.[20]
has a higher number of scandals is ‘undeniable.’"[23]
On September 26, 2010, Quebec Premier, Jean Charest,
Rhéal Séguin, writing in The Globe & Mail, notes that the
wrote a letter to the editor of Maclean’s condemning the
English-language Montreal Gazette, however, is of the op-
magazine’s "twisted form of journalism and ignorance,"
posite opinion, editorializing that "Maclean’s is wrong. It
calling it "sensationalist," "far from serious," "simplistic"
didn’t come close to making its case."[22]
and "offensive,", saying the editor "discredited" the mag-
Despite the steadfast position of Maclean’s editorial
azine.[19][21][22] In an example of the law of unintended
board, the magazine’s publisher has issued a qualified
consequences, the controversy has had an unexpected
apology. On September 30, 2010, referring to the contro-
benefit for the Quebec Liberal Government: The Opposi-
versy, Brian Segal, the president of Rogers Publishing,
tion in the Quebec National Assembly had been demand-
apologized for "any offence that the cover may have
ing that Premier Charest create "a public inquiry into
caused," saying the province "is an important market for
allegations of corruption and collusion in Quebec’s con-
the company and we look forward to participating in the
struction industry."[19] However, seeing the Maclean’s ar-
dynamic growth of the province and its citizens."[24]
ticle as an attack from outside the province, an attack
Finally, regarding Bonhomme Carnaval, organizers of
from English Canada, and "with their [Quebec’s] acute
Carnaval de Québec sued Maclean’s over the controversial
sensitivity to criticism coming from outside the province,
cover showing the iconic figure, settling out of court in
many in the province’s media and political classes have
November 2010.[25]
shifted their attention from the Premier to the mischie-
vous Toronto-based magazine."[19] Thus, his letter to the
editor of Maclean’s posits Mr. Charest as "the defender
Too Asian? article
of Quebecers in their 400-year struggle to preserve their Too Asian main page
culture and language. His letter demands that Maclean’s The university ranking issue courted controversy
apologize for publishing ‘a simplistic and offensive thesis when in November 2010, under the editorship of Kenneth
that Quebecers are genetically incapable of acting with Whyte and Mark Stevenson, reporter Stephanie Findlay
integrity.’"[19] and senior writer Nicholas Köhler wrote a controversial
In an editorial dated September 29, 2010, the mag- article entitled "Too Asian?",[26] which led to allegations
azine refused to back away from its position vis-à-vis that Maclean’s intentionally perpetuated racial stereo-
corruption in Quebec.[19] In the English-language mag- types to court controversy for the sake of publici-
azine’s bilingual editorial, the editorial board says that ty.[27][28][29][30][31] Amidst criticism from a number of
Charest’s response to the Maclean’s article was an attempt student unions and politicians, on December 16, 2010,
to "implicate ordinary citizens in a scandal created by Toronto’s city council voted to request an apology from
[its] politicians. ‘It is bad enough that the people of Que- Maclean’s magazine as the third Canadian city to do so af-
bec have to put up with corruption in public office — they ter Victoria and Vancouver.[32][33][34] In a letter to the
shouldn’t be smeared by it as well,’"[19][23] Notwithstand- Minister of Canadian Heritage, Senator Vivienne Poy sug-
ing this assertion, Maclean’s acknowledged "that neither gested that public outrage over the Maclean’s article, "de-
its cover story nor an accompanying column provided fined as material that is denigrating to an identifiable
empirical evidence that Quebec is more corrupt than oth- group," should deem it ineligible for government fund-
er provinces."[19] This is not, however, a retreat from its ing. [35][36]
contention that Quebec is the most corrupt province, giv-
en that the editorial board goes further, saying See also
• Media in Canada
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province,” Maclean’s. September 24, 2010. (Retrieved
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