"My gratitude for them was already enormous. I could detect life stirring inside me, a feeling I knew was precious and rare." "Idealism and Despair," CREE HOMO 🌾's story about queer Cree love and intergenerational connection, is now paywall-free online: maisonneuve.org/article/2024/1…

"Like many of my neighbours, I worry that the places that make Montreal feel like Montreal will close and die, and the city will become like everywhere else." Our latest Letter from Montreal by Jules Bugiel explores what's lost to a focus on hype and virality: maisonneuve.org/article/2024/1…

Over the past forty years, the North American population of snow buntings has dropped by about sixty percent. In our winter issue photo essay, Alexi Hobbs documents the work of scientists and everyday citizens who are trying to make sense of this decline: maisonneuve.org/article/2024/1…

Exciting news: JHR's BIPOC Youth Journalism Training Fellowship is returning for another year! Funded by Canadian Heritage and RBC, the program provides work placements and mentorship to early-career racialized reporters. Stay tuned for job postings, and read more here:

Toronto's Hot Docs Festival is set to kick off tonight with the world premiere of "Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance." My latest for Xtra explores how the film tackles the responsibility of restoring a community's collective memory: xtramagazine.com/culture/parade…

📣 APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN! 📣 As part of JHR's 2025 BIPOC Youth Journalism Training Fellowship, we’ve teamed up with IndigiNews to offer paid, part-time, remote fellowships for two early-career BIPOC reporters! 👉 jhr.ca/apply-2025-bip… Fellows will pitch and write

A great Canadian mentorship for aspiring photojournalists from traditionally marginalized communities. RoomUpFront.ca. Apply quick.

We are very proud of our Publisher Lisa WhittingtonHill! Congratulations Lisa! magazine-awards.com/en/2025outstan…

📢 NEW JOB POST ALERT! 📢 As part of JHR's 2025 BIPOC Youth Journalism Training Fellowship, we’ve partnered with Ricochet Media to offer fellowships for 2 young BIPOC reporters 👉 jhr.ca/apply-2025-bip… Fellows will learn about all aspects of working at a non-profit digital

Congratulations to all the National Magazine Awards 🇨🇦 nominees! We are proud of Maisonneuve contributors Billy-Ray Belcourt, nominated in fiction for his story Idealism and Despair; and Sara Mizannojehdehi, nominated in one-of-a-kind storytelling for Somewhere on Sherbrooke.

My essay “Beautiful Like The Moon” for The New Quarterly has been nominated for the National Magazine Awards 🇨🇦. This recognition on World Press Freedom day is a unique honour. Congratulations to all the nominees. Language carries immense power. May it embolden us to use ours on and off the page.

"I approach the glow of Jack Astor’s neon sign on a mission. I want to know whether the family-style restaurant is really over, and if so, whether it deserves the death we’ve served it." Read Ziya Jones's take on the state of the family-style chain: maisonneuve.org/article/2025/0…

Nous sommes heureux de nous associer à La Converse pour offrir une bourse rémunérée aux jeunes PANDC 👉jhr.ca/candidature-la…

Taking pitches at my brand new maisy email [email protected] send me your ideas & arguments by June 2!

Wesley Lowery rose to prominence as a reporter and media thinker. Women in journalism say he engaged in sexual harassment and assault. cjr.org/feature-2/wesl…

Maisonneuve is now accepting applications for our Fall-Winter 2025 Internship program! Seeking self-motivated candidates with a passion for magazines to work part-time from August through November. Apply by July 18! Full details here: maisonneuve.org/news/2025/07/8…

We're excited to announce Aysha White (Aysha White) as our new associate editor! Aysha was previously news editor at This and is the mind behind magazine projects like Montreal Smoked Meat: A Secret History (2023) and the Alt Muslim Scrapbook (2025). Welcome Aysha!

JHR is dismayed by the killing of Al Jazeera correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, cameramen Ibrahim Zaher and Moamen Aliwa, and their assistant Mohammed Noufa in Gaza on Sunday. We condemn in the strongest terms the targeting of journalists and demand Israel