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Credit: Discover Halifax
Maclean’s has released its remote-work edition of the Maclean’s Best Communities in Canada considering the life during the pandemic and Halifax, Fredericton and St. Thomas took the top three spots.
According to Maclean’s, “communities” are Statistics Canada’s census subdivisions and they have ranked 415 communities against 9 important factors required for living and working during the pandemic – housing affordability (19 points), taxes (9 points), crime (7 points), weather (17 points), health (11 points), amenities (6 points), population growth (6 points), community involvement (7 points) and internet quality (14 points).
Without much ado, here are the top 25 Maclean’s Best Communities in Canada:
| 2021 rank | City name | Province |
| 1 | Halifax | NS |
| 2 | Fredericton | NB |
| 3 | St. Thomas | ON |
| 4 | Belleville | ON |
| 5 | Edmonton | AB |
| 6 | Winnipeg | MB |
| 7 | Moncton | NB |
| 8 | Cornwall | ON |
| 9 | Brooks | AB |
| 10 | Charlottetown | PEI |
| 11 | Toronto | ON |
| 12 | Saint John | NB |
| 13 | Brampton | ON |
| 14 | Saskatoon | SK |
| 15 | Welland | ON |
| 16 | Windsor | ON |
| 17 | Regina | SK |
| 18 | Langford | BC |
| 19 | Woodstock | ON |
| 20 | Strathroy-Caradoc | ON |
| 21 | Medicine Hat | AB |
| 22 | Central Saanich | BC |
| 23 | Sidney | BC |
| 24 | Niagara Falls | ON |
| 25 | Tillsonburg | ON |
Credit: Maclean’s
