“I am branded in Quebec as a traitor to the French, and in Ontario as a traitor to the English. In Quebec I am branded as a jingoist, and in Ontario as a separatist. In Quebec, I am attacked as an imperialist, and in Ontario as an anti-imperialist. I am neither. I am a Canadian. Canada has been the inspiration of my life.” Read More

It’s one of the most familiar tropes in cinema — the fish out of water. But it gets a refreshing twist in the movie The Mother and the Bear, a surreal-flavoured comedy-drama in which an overbearing Korean mother travels to windswept, frigid Winnipeg to be by the side of her comatose daughter, Sumi, injured by a fall on the city’s slippery streets. Once there, she hits on a scheme to catfish an eligible Korean-Canadian man to be Sumi’s boyfriend when she recovers. Read More

Cheryl Petruk never planned to become a magazine publisher or the founder of a not-for-profit organization. She was working as a HR professional in 1991 when her husband, Eugene Petruk was diagnosed with a rare slow-growing blood cancer that is in a group of blood cancers known as myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). Read More

Even if you don’t make New Year’s resolutions, January is a natural reset point, whether you want to focus on health, finances or your spiritual well-being. Look to some of these Canadian authors for advice, inspiration or motivation. Read More