The holy month of Ramadan is observed by 1.8 Muslims in Canada and over 1.9 billion worldwide every year, during which they fast from sunrise to sunset as a time of inner reflection and spiritual awareness. While some of the shortest fasts in the world, in accordance with
“Fatphobia tells us our moral, sexual, and intellectual value is determined by our weight,” said Kate Manne, associate professor of philosophy at Cornell and speaker for the Calgary Institute for the Humanities event on Demoralizing Fatness. “That’s absurd; it’s deleterious; and it gaslights us into dieting. In 2023,
When one is “woman’d,” Rayne Fisher-Quann describes it as when “everyone stops liking a woman at the same time.” An example would include Millie Bobby Brown’s rise to fame as a child star on Netflix’s Stranger Things followed by her subsequent fall as news outlets referred
Starting on April 1, 2023, British Columbia will be the first province in Canada to offer full coverage for prescription contraceptives, including oral hormone pills, intrauterine devices (IUDs), contraceptive injections, subdermal implants, as well as the morning after pill — the government calling it a win for both healthcare and gender
The Koh-i-Noor diamond has recently reappeared in the news, this time due to controversy surrounding the U.K.’s Queen-consort Camilla Parker-Bowles’ desire to wear the colonial-era gemstone embedded in her coronation crown, despite calls for the diamond to be returned to the Punjab region
There’s controversy surrounding a Halifax school’s decision to discipline students who chose to wear the Palestinian keffiyeh scarf for Cultural Day — during which students were encouraged to come dressed in accordance with their backgrounds. Maamoun Alhindi told CBC News that his nephew was called to the principal’s
It may surprise you to know that in a society built on slavery and colonialism, within which White people were positioned at the top of the hierarchy, that every institution in that society — including healthcare — would be embedded with white supremacy. Shocker. In Canada, anti-Black racism in the context
The British Royal Family is not a foreign and far off concept to me — it’s been less than a century of independence for both Pakistan, the nation where I was born, and Canada, the nation where I was raised. The family as an institution has been at the helm
Everyone has a New Year’s resolution after the festive period winds down to an end and the start of the year is always a great opportunity for a fresh start. Stereotypical resolutions already exist and are likely a quick Google search away, but this time around, everyone — especially students
January marks Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month — but what exactly does it look like? When we hear the term “human trafficking” we don’t think of Canada — the first thing that would come to mind would be criminals like Andrew Tate recently getting arrested in Romania after being charged