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Bullied as a child, Indigenous coach Terry Crook now inspires young athletes on and off the track
When Terry Crook walks onto the track at Calgary’s Stu Peppard Arena, there is an air of familiarity that comes only with someone...
Canadians have a lot to learn about this country’s history of slavery, experts say
WARNING: This story contains disturbing details about slavery. As Sharon Robart-Johnson walks around the Black history room at the Yarmouth County Museum, she points...
Television reboots are an easy sell — but are they crowding out BIPOC voices?
It seems like almost every day a new television reboot is announced, quelling audience desires for nostalgic content. Sex and the City, Frasier and...
Unmarked grave findings in Canada prompt reckoning among U.S. churches
WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing. The discoveries of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential schools for Indigenous...
First Nations invite public to witness search for unmarked graves at Sask. residential school site
Warning: This story containts details some readers may find distressing. A group of Saskatchewan First Nations is inviting the wider public to witness...
Orange Shirt Day ‘not approved’ for military members honouring residential school survivors
WARNING: This story contains distressing details. A top Canadian Armed Forces official last fall ordered soldiers not to wear orange to honour Indigenous...
Why retrieving former residential school records has proved so difficult
The discovery of potentially hundreds of unmarked graves near former residential schools in B.C. and Saskatchewan has prompted calls for the Catholic Church, which...
Google doodle pays tribute to Indigenous women’s rights advocate Mary Two-Axe Earley
The June 28 Google doodle of Mary Two-Axe Earley marks 36 years since Bill C-31 received royal assent, amending the Indian Act to...
Quebec government, Catholic oblates still haven’t delivered key residential school records
WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing. As First Nations in Quebec plan possible searches of former residential school sites,...
Statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in Hamilton, Ont., covered as Indigenous community calls for it to come down
The statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in downtown Hamilton has been covered in fabric from head to toe and wrapped tightly with a red rope....
Looking back to look forward: Resources exploring Black Prairie experiences
This story is part of the Black on the Prairies project, a collection of articles, personal essays, images and more, exploring the past,...
‘People are talking about the same things they talked about back then’: COVID stirs up memories of polio
When Elizabeth Lounsbury was eight years old, she snuck out of the house to go swimming with her friends. She had been taught to...
Ex-wife of Christine Jessop’s killer talks about coming to grips with the awful truth
Heather Hoover still has the last photo Christine Jessop gave her in 1984. It’s a school picture of the nine-year-old in a white...
Remembering In Flanders Fields: Why John McCrae’s poignant WW I words still have power today
Like so many things in 2020, Canada’s Remembrance Day ceremonies will be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Communities will still commemorate their war...
How technology — and a global pandemic — are transforming Remembrance Day
On a grey, windswept spring day three years ago, Ryan Mullens sat next to the grave of a long-dead soldier in the green...
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