The age of the McMansion saw the shift of the house from a place that we live in, potentially for the rest of our lives, to an asset that we are decidedly not supposed to live in forever.
This is why I don’t think exercising freedom of speech is inherently praiseworthy.
” Indigenous people, I’m afraid, haven’t rated very highly on that unspoken hierarchy. Canadians evidently do not consider Indigenous people proximate — and the less proximate the subject, the more indifferent the audience.”
If you hear a woman is missing, does it make you care more, or less, to discover she’s Indigenous?
– Mira Burt-Wintonick
Businesses and outreach groups say Pokemon Go is helping show people who’ve avoided downtown Prince George that the neighbourhood, and the people who frequent it, are nothing to be afraid of.
They appeal to a nostalgia for a version of each country that was stronger, more respected, treated its people better. It’s a promise that things were better, once, and after this vote, they will be again- regardless of whether any of that is true.
For Canada Day, the story of Alex Cuba, a Cuban-Canadian musician living in Smithers who decided to learn some of the indigenous language of Wit’suwet’in so he could sing it when he was invited to perform on Parliament Hill.
Let me start by saying I am wholly aware that riding a bike in no way comes anywhere close to having the lived experience of a woman, minority, or non-cisgendered person. At all. But…
It was then I realized I would never, ever understand the immense bravery and resilience it would take to simply exist as a gay man in the world.
I’m not saying for sure that gorillas, our dolphins, or any other animals are our equals. But I’m aware of humanity’s historic ability to look the other way when it comes to mistreating others, and how much we like to tell ourselves comforting myths about our own intelligence or place in the moral hierarchy in order to dismiss the claims that the way we are treating other forms of life is wrong. And I won’t rule out the possibility that it’s still happening today.
The Tragically Hip taught me the difference between being from Canada, and *being Canadian*.
As Toronto becomes a global player in the hip-hop world, Vancouver no longer holds its status as the second centre of the Canadian scene.
David Mah was a gifted photographer. His work for the Prince George Citizen elevated our understanding of the community.
A good album is more than a collection of good songs and a good discography is more than a bunch of good albums.
Ad nauseam
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