Unity Mosque provides a space for observant Muslims who openly live in LGBTQ relationships
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The link between diabetes among Indigenous peoples and colonialism
Rising rates of the disease among First Nations communities in Canada is leading some to re-examine the country's history of cultural assimilation
Meet the five United Church people who helped shape Canada’s groundbreaking laws about options at the end of life
The debate is heating up on how much control Canadians have over their own deaths. Here are some of the conversation's influencers
The hidden epidemic of loneliness in Canada
An estimated six million Canadians live in isolation. Social researchers are now calling it a hidden epidemic.
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For nearly half a century, the Elnabrees family has fled one war after another: Palestine, Kuwait, Iraq and, more recently, Syria. This
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The writer is in the midst of a radical six-month change of diet. He’s discovering that no cheeseburger tastes as good as
At 13, Willie Blackwater stood up to his abuser at a B.C. residential school
His defiance would eventually help change the course of Canadian history.
When faith and tradition collide with sexual education
In the face of a new sex-ed curriculum, one United Church-minister-turned-teacher is using her own coming-out experience to educate young people
This is the world our children will inherit, and it’s not looking good
Climate chaos. Economic upheaval. Psychological stress. A futurist looks for hope amid the coming turmoil.
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