Culture

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The Danish capital's success with cycling shows that culture can count for a lot when it comes to cleaner urban living.

This legislation is nothing more than body-policing; something women around the world and throughout history have been subjected to and continue to be penalized for on a routine basis, writes National Observer columnist Toula Drimonis.

Cree Elder Patrick Etherington went to see the bishop in 1986 at the Roman Catholic Diocese of Moosonee, Ont. As a 30-year-old man, now a father, he walked straight into the local headquarters of the organization that had stolen him from his own parents.

“I think we need to go beyond just the festival scene if we want to be truly progressive - the nightlife scene also deals with those issues. We need to take responsibility as a community to change this culture of entitlement to women's bodies." - Melanie Doucet

A teenager behind an Ontario town's first Pride parade was still getting over his surprise on Thursday, June 14, 2018, at having found himself taking a congratulatory phone call from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

In 1829, a uniquely important young woman died of tuberculosis in St. John's.

Students at an an all-girls private school in Montreal have launched a petition to make bras optional after a student was told she should be wearing one.

A think tank launching at Ryerson University in Toronto Tuesday aims to ensure Indigenous researchers have a greater input on policy issues relevant to their peoples.

“So many decisions about technology are made without our consent,” she told the C2 Montreal conference. “We need to better understand the ethical constraints and moral implications of the technology we’re using. Our devices don’t necessarily work for us. They work for the manufacturers, they work for the advertisers. They are waiting to be compromised if we’re not careful."

Waël Kabbani, a Syrian-Saudi Arabian filmmaker/producer, in Montreal hopes his documentary films break down stereotypes of Muslim people.

It was a stretch to think that a high school girl from the ‘burbs of British Columbia could ever make her way into the spotlight beside some of the biggest names in pop music including Prince, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, and Pink. And yet...

I’m less concerned with a proposed immigration policy that ultimately relies on the federal government doing the CAQ's dirty work than the message it communicates, writes Montreal columnist Toula Drimonis.

Columnist Nora Loreto confirms: Canada is in the midst of a free speech crisis. But this crisis, she explains, has nothing to do with the right to hold lectures that debate whether or not someone is worthy of love and respect, or they whether have the right to trigger the "normies."

As politicians squabble over bitumen, First Nations demonstrate clean energy alternatives. Using old pipeline materials to create clean energy and pushing forward an historic tribal parks program, this coastal British Columbia Nation is a force to be reckoned with.