Culture

Inuit youth come south to learn about life in the north at Nunavut Sivuniksavut, a post-secondary school in Ottawa for Inuit youth from Canada’s newest and largest territory.

Downie spent the last chapter of his life raising funds for brain cancer research and advocating for the rights of Canada’s Indigenous Peoples.

"The process of decolonizing my spirit and finding my way back to my sacred responsibilities had begun," writes National Observer reporter Emilee Gilpin in Vancouver, B.C.

A letter about scientific research triggered immediate denials in a flurry of emails from officials within government in the days before the Trudeau Liberals approved two major pipeline projects.

He's at the Met in New York and the British Museum in London. One of his books is becoming an opera. On Bowen Island in B.C., Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas brings fresh perspective to ancient art.

About 5,000 years ago, after massive ice sheets from the Last Glacial Maximum retreated, the Maritime Archaic peoples carved a living from the sea and woodlands on Newfoundland's west coast.

It’s official. Google Street View has now gone to the ends of the earth.

An international report released this week raises questions about the environmental impact of your next hamburger or milkshake.

Rapper Snoop Dogg is digging further into the Canadian cannabis ecosystem, investing in a seed-to-sale software provider as the country prepares for the legalization of marijuana by Canada Day 2018.

Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly unveiled Thursday what she billed as a road map for the future of Canada's creative industries.

After almost two years of study ... only a few disappointing steps to support Canadian content.

Three items, including a crucifix, that belonged to North-West Rebellion leader Louis Riel, which have been held by the RCMP for decades, will soon return to Metis possession.

Don't be fooled, writes Queen's University sociologist Cynthia Levine-Rasky. Extremists deploy the “freedom of speech” argument as a trick to recruit people and galvanize a mainstream audience.

A renowned American museum and an Inuit government have received an award for returning Inuit bodies that had been dug up and taken for scientific study.

The man who guided searchers to the wreck of John Franklin's flagship may have one more surprise left up his parka sleeve.