Residents of a small town in southern Quebec gathered Sunday to try and make sense of their hot spot status in Donald Trump’s new world…
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Caught Between Two Competing Images of Womanhood
Children of immigrants learn to live in two worlds. As a first-generation Canadian, I learned to maintain and modify my Italian culture in order to…
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Exhibit Takes Guests to Libraries Around the World
“The library is a mirror of the universe,” writes Argentinian-Canadian author Alberto Manguel in his 2006 book The Library at Night. As print loses traction…
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Activist Connects Loss of Culture to Climate Change
The world is still catching up to Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier. A year before being appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2006,…
View More Activist Connects Loss of Culture to Climate ChangeLet’s Discuss Investor Sweetheart Deals for All Provinces
Critics are looking at Quebec’s so-called “sweetheart deal” on immigrant investors the wrong way. Instead of complaining about Quebec other provinces and territories should be…
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Hungarian Canadian Tackles Image of Racist Quebec
Is there any topic touchier in Canada than Quebec’s identity politics? It might be easier to answer this question from the outside looking in, but…
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Journey Back to Vietnam Becomes Universal Story
Kim Thuy’s fourth novel continues the author’s style of recalling her own journey to Canada and crossing linguistic and cultural boundaries. “I don’t mind at…
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Haitian Canadians in Quebec: A Rich Political History
When Elizabeth Philibert arrived in Montreal as an émigré in 1979, she immediately felt the city would be her closest connection to Haiti. The city’s…
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Comedy Reveals Challenges of Canadian Democracy
“Just because you’ve fallen off ship doesn’t mean you’re drowning.” In the film My Internship in Canada, the person struggling to stay afloat is the…
View More Comedy Reveals Challenges of Canadian DemocracyReligious Accommodation Still a Struggle in Quebec
On one of the final stops during its two-year, cross-country “Our Canada” workshop series, the Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF) held an open conversation about…
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