Maclean's is Canada's leading weekly news magazine.

It was founded in 1905 by Toronto journalist/entrepreneur Lt.-Col. John Bayne Maclean . The 43-year-old trade magazine publisher purchased an advertising agency's in-house business journal — along with its 5,000-strong subscription base. The Business Magazine, launched in October of that year, was a pocket-sized digest of articles gathered from Canadian, US and British periodicals. It sold 6,000 copies. Inside its bright blue cover, the fledgling monthly anointed itself, "the Cream of the World's magazines reproduced for Busy People." Its aim, Maclean wrote a year later, was not "merely to entertain but also to inspire its readers." It was later renamed Maclean's in 1911.

The magazine switched from being a monthly general interest publication including fiction and gossip, to a bi-weekly news magazine in 1978, and to a weekly newsmagazine a few years later.

Today Maclean's remains one of Canada's leading source of news and information. Maclean's is also famous for its annual ranking of Canadian universities. Since 2001, it has been edited by Anthony Wilson-Smith , but he left the post at the end of February 2005. The magazine has been owned by the Rogers Communications conglomerate since Rogers acquired Maclean-Hunter Ltd., the former publisher.

Noted Maclean's contributors have included Barbara Amiel, Peter Gzowski, Peter Mansbridge, Allan Fotheringham, Diane Francis, Paul Wells and Peter C. Newman.

Maclean's has been criticized for having a supposedly pro-Liberal (both the party and political stance) position by conservatives such as Conrad Black.

See Also

• Media in Canada

External link

• Maclean's website