Kateri Tekakwitha, of Kahnawake’s Mohawk nation, has been named North America’s first aboriginal saint by the Pope. She lived just outside Montreal and died about 330 years ago, and people have been pushing for her to be named a saint ever since. She has long been worshiped by Canadian Catholics and natives alike for her ...
Canada will witness a seemingly endless stream of celebrations of its history in the next decade. In 2012, Queen Elizabeth will celebrate her Diamond Jubilee and 86th birthday. 2013 marks the 100 year anniversary of the important but ill-fated Canadian Arctic Expedition. In 2014, the World War I will be commemorated. 2017 is perhaps the ...
The Missing Women Commission of Inquiry opened this morning surrounded by protesters demanding justice. Over the next eight months, the inquiry will be looking into the way the police handled the investigation of missing women on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, who began disappearing in the early 1990s. When Robert Pickton was finally arrested in 2002, the ...
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Dear Madame X, My boyfriend needs to look at porn while we have sex. It bothers me because I...
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