Photo courtesy of Robert Kuang Jenniah Minchin stumbled upon the “Failures Wanted” posters on a typical day of Vancouver downpour, at a bus stop near her home. Whether it was the art style or the words themselves, something intrigued her. She set down her groceries long enough to make out the email address at the […] More »

Photo courtesy of Jacquie Nicholson 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 activists are staging an annual picket outside the Women’s Hospital near Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre and that […] More »

Murray Sinclair during the opening keynote of the Shingwauk 2015 Gathering. (Archkris via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) Governing everything from band leadership to land management, the Indian Act continues to shape daily life for many Indigenous people 150 years after it was enacted. For many Indigenous leaders and scholars, its enduring framework remains a […] More »

Mungujakisa Edmond viz Vecteezy / EOZyo viz Wikimedia Commons / Corrie Maurik 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 groups of Albertans feeling anxious and nervous. […] More »

What does it mean to be Canadian? That’s the question Iranian Canadian filmmaker Ava Maria Safai was presented with while completing her application for Telefilm Canada’s Talent to Watch program—a funding initiative that supports emerging filmmakers in producing their first feature. As part of the process, she dug into the archives of previously funded projects […] More »

Sandra Wiens stepped into the role of government relations representative for the Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC) two years ago. Upon joining the Quaker group focused on peace and justice, she was one of the members who noticed a pattern. It seemed like unhoused people who were previously incarcerated were asking to go back to […] More »

Illustration by Arson Vremea Dear Unemployment, I met you over two years ago, in October, 2023, when I lost my job after two years. I felt suffocated by the heavy-handedness of the new manager, things came to a head, we parted ways. I was looking to take a breather, but just a few days in, […] More »

Photo courtesy of Black Theatre Workshop On stage, Jerk Pork Castle’s neon lights shine bright, inviting. Inside, Neisha and Andrea anxiously sweep the floor, waiting for hungry customers. It’s another day of checking in on each other, of discussing their citizenship status in the country, of hoping. In our place, set in a fictionalized Caribbean […] More »

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 musician grew up with a limited idea of how far music could take him. Now based in Toronto as an established and touring […] More »

Mingzhe Zhang via Pexels Sarah Dawson, a renter living in Toronto’s east end, was told that her rent was going to go up again for the second time in three years, and she wanted to know why. “Every year, the rent goes up, but the problems in the building never seem to get fixed. I […] More »

Photo by Pavel Danilyuk via Pexels I was struggling in school: distracted, restless, and falling behind. I was an undiagnosed ADHDer and autistic kid, but it was the ’80s, so my fidgeting was treated as misbehaviour rather than a learning difference. I was rescued by the unstoppable hero known as creativity. My mom, a teacher […] More »