Culture

At least 100 community members of the Tsilhqot'in Nation came together in Tl'etinqox, one of six Tsilhqot'in communities, to send their leadership off, the Tsilhqot'in way.

It’s been a rough couple of weeks for anyone trying to insist that rape culture and normalized violence against women don’t exist in Canada.

Alberta's Economic Development and Trade Minister Deron Bilous announced plans Thursday to provide tax credits to the province's interactive digital media industry.

Bright-eyed children run between heaping piles of plastic, a worn-out worker spends his meager wages on alcohol, and a preteen girl gazes solemnly at Western product advertisements she picks out of the monstrous piles of trash around her home. Welcome to Wang Jiuliang’s Plastic China.

Heiltsuk and Haida women came together in Haida Gwaii for a Women's Dialogue Session focused on women's leadership, traditional and cultural knowledge, and coastal unity.

Raghda Hassan, with her hair tucked into an immaculate white scarf, is preparing to make Knafeh, a Arabic cheese-based dessert enveloped with a crunchy vermicelli style dough and pistachio nuts on top.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that I really welcome the day when half the population will consider the grievances of the other half as something they should seriously be interested in; not just something they get to react to or debate when they feel like it.

“There can be no true reconciliation without economic reconciliation,” says Nadine St-Louis, executive director of Sacred Fire Productions. She and other Indigenous artists believe it's time to get fake Aboriginal crafts off the shelves in Canada.

If John Lefebvre were a Medieval bard, he'd have stories to entertain crowds for years. Six-foot-one with flowing hair, the 66-year-old leans over a mug of steaming coffee like a Canadian version of The Dude from the Big Lebowski, as he recounts his kaleidoscopic story from choirboy to multimillionaire to jailbird. It’s a bewildering resume: high school dropout, teen drug dealer, lawyer...

Garihanna Jean-Louis, a former Montreal police cadet, is the first black woman to graduate from Quebec's comedy school.

It's as if Chief Patrick Michell of the Kanaka Indian Bar Band has a superpower. With what appears to be a normal set of eyes, his vision stretches back to the last 8,000 years of his people and ahead, to a future of climate chaos and unshakeable hope.

When Sarah Zouak decided to write her master's thesis on Muslim feminism, she remembers her professor telling her to choose one topic or the other because Islam and feminism are incompatible.

Ice dance stars Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir took turns carrying the Canadian flag at the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on Friday, hours after their teammates got Canada off to a solid start in the team figure skating competition.

David Suzuki asks whether many-legged, cold-blooded critters are the key to minimizing humanity's environmental footprint.

On the anniversary of the Quebec City mosque attack, we should take time to consider the women and children who continue to live the real life consequences of deep hate and violence, writes Reyhana Patel, head of public relations at Islamic Relief Canada.