Instead of asking kids to step away from gaming, some Manitoba educators are meeting them where they are: in a popular video game. CBC's Jim Agapito finds out how Fortnite is being used to teach Indigenous language and culture.

For Asian Heritage Month, CBC News asked Calgarians: what’s a cultural tradition you will keep, and is there one you’d rather toss? Here are a few of those answers.

It’s the oldest in Canada and one of the oldest in all of North America, and a stroll through its historic streets immediately brings to mind the rich culture, heritage and resilience of the Chinese people who played a vital role in Victoria’s (and Canada’s) early days.

Established in the mid-19th century, it grew rapidly as Chinese immigrants came in search of opportunities during the Fraser River Gold Rush and the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Lamajoune Villeray Bakery, a family-run business operating for 40 years, recently received a letter from the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF).

Bad Bunny’s naming of ‘Canadá’ at the Super Bowl exposed Canada’s tendency to imagine itself as peripheral to Latin America, when its people and culture are central to its reality.

The ENAGB Indigenous Youth Agency held its annual Cultural Festival and Competition Pow Wow at Woodbine Park Sunday. The two-day event brings community members together with dancers, drummers, artists and vendors to celebrate and honour Indigenous culture. Dale Manucdoc speaks to organizers and performers about the importance of the festival.

Crews came to West Coast for the surf, scenery and stayed for the charm

Rena Farajova might have left her home country of Azerbaijan, but she didn't want to leave her culture behind when she came to Canada. So she galvanized her local community to create a society dedicated to promoting Azerbaijan's culture and traditions.

A drumbeat anchors a crowd of students on a windy day and students, dressed in colourful regalia, dance before hundreds of their peers. For the Indigenous students of Bear Lodge, this wasn't just a performance — it was a reclamation of the school grounds.

Premier Wab Kinew says House Speaker Tom Lindsey was wrong to ban politicians from calling each other racist, transphobic, misogynist or a bigot.

May 5, or Cinco de Mayo, is a day of celebration of Mexican culture, history and food. In Ottawa, one group has been gathering together for more than three decades.

Aẕís Kwą̂, which means "hide house" in Dane-ẕaa Ẕáágéʔ (the Dane-zaa language), opened in Doig River First Nation this week. It's a place where elders can give youth hands-on experience, teaching them how to cut and dry meat, cure a hide or make a drum. It's the latest development for the small First Nation in northeastern B.C., which has also seen new housing, a prayer house with a daycare program and an education centre spring up in the community.

English has long been pop music’s dominant language, but it no longer reigns supreme at the Eurovision Song Contest. There are 25 languages, from Albanian to Ukrainian, sung onstage this year at the sequin-drenched international music competition, which reaches its finale in Vienna on Saturday. 

The editor of an updated Indigenous language dictionary says he hopes the resource will help spur more language learning.

A Canadian-Croatian community group is striving to keep their traditions alive by passing down folklore dances and songs to the next generation. The Queen Helena Canadian Croatian Cultural and Charitable Society puts on their spring concert every year to showcase months of practice.

Punjabi speakers will soon be hearing local news and music programming in their own language broadcast across Winnipeg's airwaves, as a western Canadian network of Punjabi-language radio stations is set to launch its newest station in the city next week.

CBC is proud to sponsor MOSAIC 2026, the longest-running multicultural festival in Saskatchewan. Join us in Regina from June 4 to 6, for this family-focused event that celebrates culture while building public awareness about the rich diversity in our community.

A new puppet show teaching the endangered Nakoda language is hitting screens in the coming year, with the crew saying nothing like this has ever been done to preserve the language.

Statistics Canada says 13,065 people reported an ethnic origin of “Cape Bretoner” on the last census, either alone or in combination with other ethnicities.

More than a year after a grass fire destroyed the visitor's centre at the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, the attraction east of Edmonton is re-opening to visitors.

Ottawa's only Inuk reverend, Rev. Canon Aigah Attagutsiak, never planned on the role.

Inuit are criticizing the prime minister's emphasis on the next governor general's bilingualism. They point out that the outgoing Governor General Mary Simon is also bilingual in English and Inuktitut.

Angela Code believes that culture is a verb. She actively cares for the environment in the Yukon and lives a lifestyle rooted in hunting and land-based skills. With her mother, Mary, she shares reflections on finding intergenerational healing through honouring their family’s beautiful, practical caribou clothing and tools.

Festival rooted in history and remembrance One of Canada’s largest celebrations of Métis culture is set to return this summer, with organizers preparing for another major turnout at the historic site of Batoche.