Culture

Vancouver punk legend Joe Keithley on why the climate change emergency makes it crucial that everyone votes to protect the Earth this election, and how he’s trying to engage younger people to take on the system by throwing a pre-election punk festival.

Frédérick Moreau shows how culture can be a powerful way to create bonds, using the example of his artistic expression workshops for young newcomers. These workshops serve as an academic springboard for these students, while helping them find reference points in their new society.

Our Canadian democracy is being threatened not by a physical invasion, but by an insidious digital one that is changing our decision-making abilities, and ultimately our democratic structures.

Unifor’s Howard Law on former CBC head Richard Stursberg’s scathing new book, The Tangled Garden, and how we can nurture Canadian culture in the age of media monsters.

Netflix’s new partnerships with Indigenous screen organizations are to be applauded, but actually producing and showing Indigenous films to its Canadian subscribers would be more beneficial than supporting more training and skills development.

By allowing university students to opt out of paying small fees for campus radio stations, the Ontario government’s Student Choice Initiative will not just rob students of a rich campus life, but prevent local musicians from being heard, and music scenes from thriving.