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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
On the north side of Edmonton, at the corner of 113 Avenue and 79 Street, several lots laid vacant for years. That was until Northlands, an agricultural society, took over management of the land. An ...
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 ...
As Zhi Jia finished junior high, his father was diagnosed with cancer. The two had only recently moved to Canada from China—just father and son—and were still settling into their new life in Calgary.
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 ...
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 ...
Atlantic Canada’s music scene has always been filled with rich, diverse sounds, from sea shanties to hip hop, with artists building followings far beyond home. And for over three decades, the East ...
In the heart of the city, while more than 385,000 South Asians go about their lives, the University of Toronto (U of T) has quietly set a precedent. Amid the clamour for social justice and equality, U ...
In Toronto’s Chinatown, an average morning goes on as usual, with longtime business owners setting up shop and elderly residents chatting loudly in local bakeries. But underneath the mundanity lies ...