Culture

For Isabella Kulak, marking National Ribbon Skirt Day means wearing clothing that represents who you are.

Young people emerged from COVID-19 restrictions this year to join projects fighting food and housing insecurity, get involved in the summer’s provincial election and take the Ontario government to court over climate change.

Sharing the knowledge and power of financial literacy can help lift up marginalized students and communities, says Angelika Bell.

The Queer Songbook Orchestra’s youth contingent only got a handful of hours to rehearse together before Tuesday's holiday fundraiser, but that's part of the impromptu joy in its community building by founder Shaun Brodie.

Ontario education workers approved a tentative deal with their employer, the union representing them said Monday, pledging to keep up the fight for more investment in schools after wrestling with the Ford government last month.

“We won. They backed down,” Sharron Flynn-Bennett, a union organizer and special education worker in the Toronto Catholic District School Board, said outside Queen’s Park on Monday. 

Blank school walls and human skin are common canvases for Métis artist Justine Proulx.

Knowledge keeper Wanbdi Wakita has been patiently listening all his 80 years.

More than two dozen teenagers paddle down the Humber River — some in a canoe for the first time — as Monica Chander and Jacob Parliament from the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s Wild Outside program help them develop their appreciation and knowledge of nature.

Pride Montreal, the organization that runs the city's annual celebration of LGBTQ communities, is conducting an internal investigation after it abruptly cancelled the official Pride parade on Sunday, August 9, 2022.

The parade was cancelled hours before it was to get underway on Sunday, August 7, 2022, citing security concerns stemming from a lack of volunteers for the event.

The Rainbow Community Garden project has been growing since 2008 and now supports more than 360 newcomer families across eight sites in Winnipeg, Niverville and Landmark.

The Talaria Summer Institute gives female and genderqueer high school students a chance to work on real-world scientific research, equipping them with a clearer view of career opportunities available in typically male-dominated fields.

Jobena Petonoquot, an artist from the Algonquin Nation of Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, rebels to reclaim the dignity of her ancestors.

"It’s a beautiful feeling to be out there on the land, knowing those medicines are still around," says Chickadee Richard.