High schoolers get ready for a virtual prom
When high school proms got cancelled across the country in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemics, hundreds of graduating seniors volunteered to help Student Life Network create a virtual version.
Culture
Indigenous women lead self defence classes across the country
“I could have been that missing woman — I would have been just another missing woman in a camp, or just another young Indigenous girl beat up by her boyfriend.” Instead, she decided to fight back.
Bike couriers in Toronto risking illness to deliver 'junk food to rich people'
With Toronto’s downtown offices shuttered, couriers are delivering fewer and different things. Food delivery riders are meanwhile taking deliveries directly to customers’ doors, potentially putting themselves at risk.
Club Quarantine hits one month of nightly queer parties
Four Toronto artists started a nightly online queer dance party as soon as the city’s live venues were shut down to limit the COVID-19’s spread. It’s been a month now, we’re all still in quarantine and Club Quarantine is settling in for the long haul.
History, intrigue and turmoil in Babylon Berlin, pet-friendly Murmur and bad memories of Rob Ford
Homegrown movies like Murmur and Run This Town are fitting since Canadian Film Day is coming up.
Message from an Indigenous mother to her three-year-old during COVID-19
“Will aunty die from the virus?” Andrea Landry's three-year-old daughter asked her one morning while they were playing quietly on the floor. Landry recognized her daughter's fear, and she recognized her own. She knew this pandemic was an invitation to feel complicated emotions, but also a time to look to traditional knowledge systems, to survive in the same way as her ancestors did.
Movie theatres are shut down, so what’s streaming?
Some modest recommendations and stay for the last one, an alarm about what has happened to the internet.
Trudeau urges patience as Wet'suwet'en mull over proposed deal
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he knows people are impatient for a resolution to tensions involving a disputed natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia, but time is needed to respect the traditions of the Wet'suwet'en people.
Ziya Tong and The Reality Bubble
Science journalist and award-winning author Ziya Tong takes her book, The Reality Bubble, to England
How the loss of ice due to climate crisis could alter our way of life
Life in Canada and abroad is intertwined with ice. But the loss of winter could alter our traditions and livelihoods, a new study has found.
Grand Chief says Feds are sidelining Indigenous sports
“I was very, very disappointed and discouraged that the portfolio of sport appears to be sidelined, or disappeared,” said Littlechild.
Chutzpah! Festival 2019 presents the West Coast premiere of Ethiopian-Israeli singer and songwriter, Aveva Dese.
October 24 – November 24, 2019 in Vancouver
Do reusable coffee cups make any difference?
Buying a sturdy plastic to-go tumbler is an appealing way to feel like you are doing something proactive in the battle against climate change and plastic waste — but there might be better ways to help.