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Marika Sila’s family originally thought she would be a professional skier. The Inuk TikTok star, who grew up in Canmore, Alberta and still resides there today, had the skills and guts to make it happen, but during those pivotal teenage years, her true passion bubbled to the surface. When Sila was 17, she traded in her […]
Other fighters merely adopt taekwondo; Skylar Park was born in it, moulded by it. And that’s not even hyperbole. “From the very beginning, I was crawling on the mats… I first put on pads and stepped into the ring for competition at two years old,” the 22-year-old tells Complex. The Winnipeg native was born into […]
A crowdfunding campaign has raised more than $800,000 to help Fayez Salman—a 9-year-old Muslim boy whose family was killed in a suspected hate-crime attack. According to The Hill, the incident occurred on the night of June 6, as Fayez and his family were walking alongside a park in London, Ontario. At around 8:40 p.m., a black pickup truck jumped the […]
It’s a full-force bright-skies Saturday when I sit to chat with Curtis Waters about his latest project, Plastic World. He is our generation’s answer to the one effortlessly cool scene kid of the early aughts: the self-effacing wuderkind has a penchant for a very self-aware brand of irony, and grew up in Nepalese culture, which […]
Indigenous leaders in Saskatchewan are asking Catholics to stand in solidarity with residential school survivors by skipping Sunday mass. The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations held a press conference Friday morning saying Pope Francis needs to apologize for the church’s role in residential schools. They asked Catholic congregants to help push for an apology by not […]
Four members of a Muslim family of five in Canada were killed after being struck by a pickup truck in what police suspect to be a “planned, premeditated” attack, CBC reports. The driver, 20-year-old Nathaniel Veltman, has been charged with four counts of murder and one count of attempted murder after he mounted the curb and hit […]
It’s been about 36 years since members of the Black Music Association, Black music professionals, and allies stood outside of the Juno Awards show lobbying for the inclusion of Black music categories. The Black Music Association formed in 1984 and advocated for international recognition for African-Canadian music. Today, the Junos are celebrating Black music to an extent that’s never […]
The remains of 215 indigenous children have been uncovered at a former residential school in British Columbia. Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation announced the disturbing discovery on Thursday, confirming it had found a mass burial site on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Casimir said a ground-penetrating radar specialist […]
Prime Ministers, they get laptop status anxiety—just like us! A photo of Justin Trudeau using as lowly HP laptop masquerading as a Macbook has been making the rounds on the Internet. The image shows him cheerfully leading a video conference behind a computer with what appears to be a white Apple sticker slapped over a Hewlett […]
Toronto-based online brokerage Wealthsimple, which can count Drake among its celebrity investors, has raised $610 million in fundraising with a $4 billion evaluation. Business Insider reports that the Power Corporation of Canada company’s latest round of funding was led by Meritech Capital Partners and Greylock Partners. The funding and valuation were announced on Monday. Wealthsimple […]
