It’s a Wednesday between classes just before the 2025 winter break and the hallway at Nisto Awasisak Memorial School is a rush of hoodies, backpack zippers, and winter boots squeaking on tile.

Incorporating mountains, water, and moon cycles, this tattoo tells a visual story of home, ancestral lineage, and seasonal ...

SARA ABOULELA is a freelance journalist based in Ontario, Canada. With Egyptian and Sudanese roots, she is passionate about ...

When taunts and threats about Canada becoming the 51st state flew last year, my mind spun like a hamster wheel. What would it look like? What would it mean for me? As I often do when processing ...

A chant swells as a ragtag marching band pounds out a familiar riff. These musicians didn’t just come to perform. They came to disrupt. It’s October 2018, and Jacquie Nicholson knows that anti-choice ...

The day Albertans vote on the 10-question referendum falls on October 19, 2026, a simple Monday when people start their work week and others return to class. A simple Monday for most, but one that has ...

Photo by Celia Mendez If Quique Escamilla could summarize his musical journey in one word, it would be “grateful.” Born and raised in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, the Juno Award–winning ...

Catherine Ouellet-Cummings was working from her old home’s dimly lit basement, scrolling on Facebook, when she saw her friend liked a Belgian kids’ magazine’s page. It was called Cuistax, which ...

This past January, lesbians and queer women flocked to the Montreal queer bar Champs to watch a Heated Rivalry marathon. Despite my lack of interest in men (and my lack of being a man), I was one of ...

Image courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada, Lantern Films, and Experimental Forest Films. For the First Nations communities who coexist with the Nechako River, there’s a deep understanding ...

Hadeel Ibrahim was a reporter for the CBC in Saint John, New Brunswick in 2023 when then-Premier Blaine Higgs made headlines. He’d removed protections for trans and gender-diverse students, a move ...

In the foreword of Maxine Roper’s No Heels, No Problem, a survival guide for women with ADHD and dyspraxia, I describe neurodivergent womanhood as a “guessing game.” That choice of words reflects my ...