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Confronting racism: How a white discussion group found a home at a Black community association
The West Island Black Community Association in Montreal has created a discussion group exclusively for white people to confront racism within themselves and their communities. It's a program led by Rachael Seatvet, a white woman who pitched the idea to WIBCA.
Toronto tenants unionize to demand rent relief in the face of looming pandemic evictions
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to put the squeeze on more people's income and job prospects, a growing number of renters have formed grassroots tenant unions to collectively speak up against landlords and stave off the threat of possible evictions.
Personal Essay
In defense of fangirls: Why being part of the BTS fandom is helping me through the pandemic
Isolated from family and friends during the pandemic, Samantha Lui found comfort in becoming a fan of the South Korean boy band BTS.
Looking for love during lockdown? 6 tips from the frontlines of pandemic dating
Dating has never been easy, but these pandemic romantics are rising to new challenges.
Cooking Filipino food brought comfort to this advertiser after a pandemic layoff. Now he's taking orders
After COVID-19 ransacked his career, Wesley Altuna is returning to his love of food and sharing it with others to find his way forward.
This YouTuber documents life on the street, starting with his own
Penny O'Radical is using his YouTube channel to stay clean and to shine a light on homelessness in Hamilton.
PERSONAL ESSAY
I discovered my mom's erratic behaviour is due to mental illness. Now I want to understand her
Ever since Ash was a little girl, her mother has behaved oddly. Now Ash wants to find out what's wrong with her, and what, if anything, she can do to help.
PERSONAL ESSAY
Lather, rinse, repeat: The day I stepped up as a son
When he was 21, Graham Isador sat in a hospital room with his wheelchair-bound mother and his comatose dad. That day his role as a son changed forever.
From self-hate to 'Black is beautiful': How this teen is rising above the pain of racism
After years of self-hate, 16-year-old Nate Sanders says he no longer tries to be “as white as possible.” He has regained his confidence and wants to empower other Black youth to do the same.
This teen was a celebrated ringette goalie in Quebec — until the league learned he was transgender
Dawson Ovenden-Beaudry has played ringette his whole life. But when he transitioned at age 16, embracing his identity as a young man meant losing the right to the other core aspect of his identity: being one of the best ringette goalies in Quebec.
Personal Essay
I starred in a zombie-themed driver safety video. It went even worse than you'd expect
Vancouver comedy writer Sam Mullins was plucked from obscurity to his first, and only, acting gig, only to discover that brain-eating zombies were the least of his worries
From extension cords to a homemade barge, two Edmonton buddies try everything to extract a petrified stump
A pair of hockey dads went to extreme lengths to move a 70 million-year-old petrified tree from the Edmonton river bank to a paleontology museum. Indiana Jones would be proud.
'I'm scared every day,' says Montreal driver stopped by police dozens of times
Whenever Kenrick McRae uses his car, he does a thorough spot check. But no matter how scrupulous he is, the Black Montreal man can't avoid being stopped by police. He's been pulled over dozens of times, and an ex-RCMP officer who helped him file complaints against city police says his experience is not unique.
'All in the Family' — five storytellers tell tales of families both biological and chosen
From crashing your own dad's funeral, to helping your divorced mom navigate online dating, to the grandmother that drove you crazy, these are stories from across the country about family.
Personal essay
Why does the Amazing Kreskin keep sending me Christmas cards?
Kent Hoffman has received a Christmas card from mentalist the Amazing Kreskin every year for more than a decade. He wants to know: who else is on the list?
Personal essay
As a kid, I got the best presents. It all went downhill from there
Ever get a present that made you wonder, “Does this person know me at all!?” Bob Kerr has, nearly every Christmas, when his mother repeatedly insists on giving him jewelry.
Volunteer witnesses for assisted dying describe their little-known but essential role
Behind the title, they are a group of some 300 individuals, of all ages and backgrounds, united in a common cause: the belief that each of us has the right to determine when we are ready to die.
The Doc Project
'Can I go ahead now, Jane?': One doctor's first medically assisted death
Caring for patients at the end of life was Dr. Joshua Wales' job as a palliative care physician. But how would he handle bringing about someone's death?
What it's like living in Montreal's tent city: 'Freedom. That's what we have'
Michel Groulx takes us inside Montreal's improvised encampment, in the city's east end. Encampments like the one in Montreal have popped up across the country since the beginning of the pandemic.
PERSONAL ESSAY
COVID-19 stole my sense of smell. Will I ever get it back?
Montrealer Stephen Smith caught COVID-19 in March and lost his sense of smell. Then he noticed food and drink tasted different. Nearly nine months later, his senses still haven't returned to normal. He wonders if they ever will.
'A feeling of shock': How a Toronto creator's Jane-Finch website drew the ire of police, local radio station
Paul Nguyen's community website jane-finch.com became the centre of a years-long ordeal in the mid-2000s after local radio station AM 640 aired multiple segments in which some of its hosts and guests alleged the site's rap videos promoted gang violence.
Ontario man and his birth mother reunited after 55 years with help from 'adoption search angel'
After decades of fruitless searching, Robert Keating was finally able to meet his birth mother, thanks to the help of a random encounter with an “adoption search angel.”
Personal Essay
In a hospital bed, at 97, my grandmother Patricia was still ahead of her time
Author Ivan Coyote has been misgendered many times over the years, but grandma Patricia was always the one who kept up.
Personal Essay
No weddings and a funeral: How I flopped at being my girlfriend's romantic hero when her mom died
You know how in every romantic movie, there's a scene where the guy drops everything and rushes off to get the girl? Well, in college, Bob Kerr was that guy. And it didn't go so well. Now, 20 years later, Bob is reaching back out to his ex-girlfriend Zoey to find out what she really thought of his bid to win her heart.
The Doc Project
Two decades ago, these two friends made the weirdest swap ever
In 1999, Mark Trenwith and Pasha Malla traded stories about themselves. The deal was that from that point on, they could only tell each other's story, and not their own. They haven't spoken in 19 years. So how did the stories hold up?
