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The promise of free speech on Twitter is actually an illusion

If TLMEP can be suspended over a tweet that simply promoted an interview that many far-right tolls disagreed with, the implications for those of us who have opinions that challenge right-wing rhetoric are enormous. It seems that if enough people report a tweet, it’s enough to land you in Twitter jail. objectively not harassment or problematic.

Opinion

By Nora Loreto | Opinion, Entertainment, Culture | May 27th 2019

I’m so damn tired of debating abortion rights…

I’m tired of watching strangers and friends alike sharing their deeply personal abortion stories just so they can convince strangers, whose opinions and input should be utterly irrelevant to their day-to-day lives, that they are entitled to their own reproductive decisions about their own bodies and their own futures.

Opinion

By Toula Drimonis | Opinion, US News, Politics, Culture | May 27th 2019

What does ‘consultation’ mean on occupied Sḵwx̱wú7mesh land?

A long history. A young neighbourhood. How will a Sḵwx̱wú7mesh housing development on an ancestral village site relate to the overflowing city of Vancouver?

First Nations Forward

By Stephanie Wood | Features, Politics, Culture | May 21st 2019

People, drums, Tam-Tams festival, Montreal,

Montreal's tam-tams could be 40 years old, but origin remains contested

Every Sunday afternoon from spring through fall, hundreds of people gather on the slopes of Mount Royal for the tam-tams, a loosely organized weekly festival of drumming, dancing, and outdoor picnicking designed to soak up the most of Montreal's short outdoor season.

By Stephane Blais | News, Politics, Culture | May 13th 2019

'The left behind': photographer revisits mass disappearances in Punjab

Hundreds of young Sikh men in India disappeared in a time of turmoil. One photojournalist captures the experiences of the families who still lack answers.

By Stephanie Wood | Features, Culture | May 10th 2019

Indigenous matriarchs stand together in dark times

A group of eight North American Indigenous elder women, weathered in front-line resistance, fluent in their languages and rich in traditional teachings, have joined forces to protect the sacred knowledge needed for future generations to face a climate in crisis.

By Emilee Gilpin | Features, Culture | May 7th 2019

Ten thousand-year old Indigenous libraries are society's best hope for environmental vitality

Have you ever been in a library that's ten thousand years old? La'goot Spencer Greening has spent years in his peoples' library, Tsimshian territory, as a student of its culture, laws and oral history, learning what environmental conservation means from an Indigenous perspective.

First Nations Forward

By Emilee Gilpin | Features, Politics, Culture | April 26th 2019

In the heart of Great Bear Sea, a scallop farm turns ‘science into profit’

For Coastal Shellfish Corporation, a scallop aquaculture venture located on the rainy northwest coast of British Columbia, two things matter most: sustainable business in an area too familiar with the boom and bust of fishing industries, and that their activities cause as little harm to the natural environment as possible.

First Nations Forward

By Emilee Gilpin | Business, Entertainment, Energy, Culture | April 23rd 2019

The art of the positive women

Women living with HIV often still feel fear of being discovered. Art gives them a chance to tell their stories.

By Stephanie Wood | Features, Culture | April 18th 2019

Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation celebrates wisdom of past as they look to future

Nuu-chah-nulth leadership, Indigenous front liners, celebrated environmentalists and guests will join together to celebrate 35 years of Tla-o-qui-aht sovereignty through the Meares Island Tribal Park. The Tribal Park, first formally declared in 1984, is one of four tribal parks, governed and protected by the original caretakers of the land and waters.

First Nations Forward

By Emilee Gilpin | Energy, Politics, Culture | April 4th 2019

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Culture

The promise of free speech on Twitter is actually an illusion

I’m so damn tired of debating abortion rights…

What does ‘consultation’ mean on occupied Sḵwx̱wú7mesh land?

Montreal's tam-tams could be 40 years old, but origin remains contested

'The left behind': photographer revisits mass disappearances in Punjab

Indigenous matriarchs stand together in dark times

Ten thousand-year old Indigenous libraries are society's best hope for environmental vitality

In the heart of Great Bear Sea, a scallop farm turns ‘science into profit’

The art of the positive women

Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation celebrates wisdom of past as they look to future

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