Kyle Muzyka

Musician Madisyn Whajne used her settlement money from the federal government to release her debut album.

The person who makes the child laugh for the first time has been chosen as the one who welcomes them with a feast for the whole family.

Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction — but Waubgeshig Rice was not prepared for a fictitious storyline he wrote to become reality. When news broke that a Quebec couple travelled thousands of kilometres to the fly-in community of Old Crow, Yukon, in an apparent attempt to avoid COVID-19, many people on Twitter linked it to a major storyline in Rice’s post-apocalyptic novel, Moon of the Crusted Snow.

The loss of Indigenous languages is widespread across Turtle Island — but in urban centres, learning and maintaining a language not native to that area is even more challenging.

The article by Catherine Porter, Canada bureau chief for the New York Times, has drawn criticism from Inuit and the wider public for playing into stereotypes of Indigenous people.

Pro wrestling on the global scale, like in the WWE, has mostly moved past the cultural stereotypes that defined its characters in the past. But Indigenous wrestlers may struggle with whether it’s OK to work with a script that includes racial slurs, especially in smaller, independent leagues.

Covering Canada’s first federal party leader who is a visible minority is proving to be a challenge to Canadian media, two Sikh political activists say.