Culture

From an Instagram series celebrating the women in Sariena Luy’s life back in 2015 has sprung an artist collective and grassroots organizing and social enterprise empowering women, femmes and non-binary folks.

A youth-led project backed by mental health groups offers an online curriculum for young people to explore links between cannabis and mental health and aims to provide engaging health promotion and harm reduction resources.

A 15-year-old from a Toronto theatre family who has already played Juliet in Shakespeare’s tragic love story at the Stratford Festival, Eponine Lee is forging an impressive creative career while balancing the demands of high school.

Young people have less to unlearn than adults and much to contribute, says Erin Brubacher, a theatre director who collaborates often, including in her frequent work with teens, which the Toronto Arts Foundation recognized last week.

Including a robot contest, a by-gone dining experience, still-here racism and abuse exposed

A long history of targeted drug law enforcement has left some in Canada’s Black communities wary of cannabis despite it now being legal, and it's a slow process to undo that trauma-informed stigma.

Also, the short films nominated for Oscars and the real life of a jockey.

Since Toronto’s mayor last opened the city’s proclaimed Year of Public Art, the public sphere has largely been off-limits, a mix of COVID-19 precautions and icy weather reducing communal contact.

Exhibition puts Buffy Sainte-Marie’s digital art in the context of her life as singer-songwriter, activist, philanthropist and educator.

Also Denzel again, as director this time, Bono as actor, and two films about history — one bad, one excellent.

The holiday season can be an especially tough time for folks dealing with addiction and mental health challenges, so Edgewood Health Network brought together six of Canada’s top drag performers to share their compelling stories of getting and staying sober.

Since time immemorial, Indigenous people have used hides for clothing, shelter, ceremony and more. Canada’s colonial policies sought to stamp out these traditions, but community organizations are fighting to revive them.

Ikwinder Singh, a 21-year-old Toronto-based Punjabi music producer known as Ikky, is leading an imprint of Warner Music called 4N Records he hopes can build a bridge between the music in its homeland and the wider world via a hub in Toronto.

Plus: Vancouver's house prices, California's water crisis, a French mystery, and tornadoes.

Inuit young people have a tough path to traverse as they seek an active and meaningful role in the building of climate resilience in the far north of the planet, where actions taken elsewhere are having a profound impact on both geography and cultural life.