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Politics

Throne Speech pumps climate action, meanwhile in Wet’suwet’en…

Nov 25

A once-in-a-century pandemic is giving way to a climate crisis right before Canada’s eyes—it feels like 2020 all over again

Straight Talk

B.C. Human Rights Commissioner Kasari Govender issues 29 recommendations to reduce racism in policing

Nov 25

In a major report to a legislative committee, she's created a road map for reducing the scope of policing and the discretion of individual officers.

Commentary

John Price: Fragile lies of a settler government

Nov 24

Using Coastal GasLink workers as a wedge against the Wet’suwet’en is audacious but not surprising, according to one historian.

Arts Features

Award-winning Métis composer Eliot Britton integrates a world of sounds into Red Sky Performance's Trace

Nov 21

The University of Toronto music-composition professor tells the Straight that there's a lot going on conceptually and musicallyin the production to bridge the old with the new.

Commentary

Private law: why the RCMP arrests Indigenous people and journalists on unceded Wet'suwet'en traditional territory

Nov 21

Even though there is a weather emergency, provincial cabinet ministers didn't utter a peep when officers were deployed to protect a pipeline project.

Arts

Winners of the 2021 and 2020 Vancouver Book Award announced, along with city's new poet laureate

Nov 20

Two book awards were announced due to a pandemic-caused postponement from the previous year.

Education

UBC administration cancels event featuring mass-grave-denying filmmaker and antivaccine activist

Nov 12

"To be clear, this was not an event sponsored by anyone at the University of British Columbia," UBC vice president Peter Smailes said in a statement.

Straight Talk

UBC under pressure to cancel event with filmmaker who made "The Canadian Mass Graves Hoax" documentary

Nov 12

Lauren Southern's movie claims that there's no evidence of a Catholic Church cover-up.

News

Remembrance Day and reconciliation: Is it time to raise the flag?

Nov 4

Conservative leader Erin O’Toole says flags flying at half-mast to remember residential school children should be raised as “a symbol of unity,” but that’s not the position of the Royal Canadian Legion Conservative leader Erin O’Toole says flags flying at half-mast to remember residential school children should be raised as “a symbol of unity,” but that’s not the position of the Royal Canadian Legion.

Arts Features

Trailblazing mixed-race poet Pauline Johnson celebrated in Paddle Song on Firehall stage

Nov 3

Also known by her Mohawk name Tekahionwake, she has a few things in common with the actor, Cheri Maracle, who's bringing her story to life.

Arts Features

Rosemary Georgeson brings unscripted humour and stories of Indigenous success to Heart of the City Festival

Nov 2

Queer Indigenous identity, canoe culture, and artistic success are all part of the lineup in a series called Openings.

Arts Features

Heart of the City: Tell Us When They Came elevates survivor’s story

Oct 27

Kat Zu’comulwat Norris’s life is a tale of triumph over the impact of Canada’s residential school system.