Reading Time: 4 minutes Reflecting on Canadian culture at the Dog House Restaurant and small businesses dedicated to local artisans
Tag: Culture
Appropriation isn’t a crime, it’s natural cultural evolution
Reading Time: 3 minutes Cultural appropriation is how people learn. We take the most useful information we come across and pass it on to our children
French is a powerful vehicle for Canadian multiculturalism
Reading Time: 4 minutes The place of French in Canada 50 years after the Official Languages Act was first enacted shows we can and must do better
It’s time to begin the reconciliation process in America
Reading Time: 4 minutes U.S. must follow Canada’s lead to invite tribes into Columbia River Treaty negotiation
What does the future hold for Calgary’s Glenbow?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Should it become ‘a world-class public art museum’ or adhere to founder Eric Harvie’s Scottish interdisciplinary roots?
Localized and personalized: how to keep culture relevant
Reading Time: 4 minutes The world of arts and culture offers lots of examples of gross expense and imported notions of what’s important. But there are alternatives
Comic superheroes are the modern era’s version of Greek gods
Reading Time: 4 minutes In this new religion, heroes speak the truth and model the behaviours, values and norms of an increasingly diverse society
Ireland’s greatest mythical hero
Reading Time: 4 minutes The story of Cuchulainn is one of heroism. But it has also become a cultural touchstone and a political rallying cry
Endeavour’s voyage of enlightenment added a hemisphere to the world
Reading Time: 3 minutes And, according to author Peter Moore, the endeavour attitude is characterized by dreaming of our better angels, not by acquiring more stuff
One sentencing standard for all offenders
Reading Time: 3 minutes Terri-Lynne McClintic shouldn’t have been sent to a healing lodge. In fact, the very nature of such institutions defies fair practise