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"A Better Tent City empowers its residents by offering them privacy, independence and stability within the safety of their own home" 

RCMP officer Dean Lerat, a member of Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan, found many of his long-lost relatives using a DNA-testing kit. Now he helps others connect with their own families, fragmented by colonialism. The results tell the story of a whole nation.

Maxime Frappier designed this modernist house around a single apple tree

In Vancouver’s sea of steely, boxy skyscrapers, the Alberni leans into the greatness of the outdoors

I can see a life for myself here, but I still miss the city where I grew up

The second annual event will centre the theme of education

Hundreds of tenants, struggling to afford skyrocketing rents, are refusing to pay their landlords at all. They call it a rent strike. The landlords say it’s illegal. An inside look at the frontier of a growing class war

“We’re real and we’re valid. We deserve the same rights as everyone else.”

As pet food prices rise, the Toronto Humane Society’s pet food bank program is seeing a surge in demand

Avram Spatz grew up visiting the Evangeline, a historical inn in the Annapolis Valley