Maclean's magazine

Maclean's

Cover of Maclean's, September 22, 2008 issue
Editor-in-Chief	Mark Stevenson
Categories	News magazine (General interest until 1975)
Frequency	Print: Weekly (1905–1975; became monthly beginning January 2017); Weekly (1978–2016) Digital: Weekly
Publisher	Rogers Media (since 1994)
Total circulation (June 2016)	Paid print: 225,963
First issue	1905 as The Business Magazine 1911 as Maclean's
Country	Canada
Based in	Toronto, Ontario
Language	English
Website	macleans.ca
ISSN	0024-9262

Maclean's is a Canadian news magazine that was founded in 1905, reporting on Canadian issues such as politics, pop culture, and current events. Its founder, publisher J.B. Maclean, established the magazine to provide a uniquely Canadian perspective on current affairs and to "entertain but also inspire its readers." Its publisher since 1994, Rogers Media, announced in September 2016 that Maclean's would become a monthly beginning January 2017, while continuing to produce a weekly issue on digital platforms.

The Business Magazine was founded in October 1905 by 43-year-old publisher and entrepreneur Lt.-Col. John Bayne Maclean, who wrote the magazine's aim was not "merely to entertain but also to inspire its readers." It was renamed The Busy Man's Magazine in December 1905, and began providing "uniquely Canadian perspective" on varied topics such as immigration, national defence, home life, women's suffrage, and fiction. 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.

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 Western Front and critiques of Canada's war effort that came into conflict with wartime censorship regulations. Costain was ordered to remove an article by Maclean himself as it was too critical of war policy.

Costain encouraged literary pieces and artistic expressions and ran fiction by Robert W. Service, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and O. Henry; commentary by Stephen Leacock and illustrations by C. W. Jefferys, F.S. Coburn, and several Group of Seven members, including A. J. Casson, Arthur Lismer, and J. E. H. MacDonald.