Culture

As the pandemic drags on and movie theatres remained locked down, there are still plenty of things out there to keep viewers amused.

When high school proms got cancelled across the country in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemics, hundreds of graduating seniors volunteered to help Student Life Network create a virtual version.

“I could have been that missing woman — I would have been just another missing woman in a camp, or just another young Indigenous girl beat up by her boyfriend.” Instead, she decided to fight back. 

With Toronto’s downtown offices shuttered, couriers are delivering fewer and different things. Food delivery riders are meanwhile taking deliveries directly to customers’ doors, potentially putting themselves at risk.

Four Toronto artists started a nightly online queer dance party as soon as the city’s live venues were shut down to limit the COVID-19’s spread. It’s been a month now, we’re all still in quarantine and Club Quarantine is settling in for the long haul.

Homegrown movies like Murmur and Run This Town are fitting since Canadian Film Day is coming up.

“Will aunty die from the virus?” Andrea Landry's three-year-old daughter asked her one morning while they were playing quietly on the floor. Landry recognized her daughter's fear, and she recognized her own. She knew this pandemic was an invitation to feel complicated emotions, but also a time to look to traditional knowledge systems, to survive in the same way as her ancestors did.

Some modest recommendations and stay for the last one, an alarm about what has happened to the internet.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he knows people are impatient for a resolution to tensions involving a disputed natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia, but time is needed to respect the traditions of the Wet'suwet'en people.

Science journalist and award-winning author Ziya Tong takes her book, The Reality Bubble, to England

Life in Canada and abroad is intertwined with ice. But the loss of winter could alter our traditions and livelihoods, a new study has found.

“I was very, very disappointed and discouraged that the portfolio of sport appears to be sidelined, or disappeared,” said Littlechild.

October 24 – November 24, 2019 in Vancouver