Language and Culture

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.

At Elsie Fabian School, land-based learning and Indigenous languages are core parts of the K-9 curriculum. The school faculty says this has led to major improvements in student grades, behaviour and cultural pride.

Why Ottawa’s language regime is a barrier to merit, representation and democratic fairness

The Southern Alberta Ethnic Association (SAEA) hosted its annual Asian Heritage Festival on Saturday, May 2

The Yukon Native hockey tournament happens every year in Whitehorse, and draws hundreds of teams from all over the north.

And there's a team of Kaska Language speakers that do commentary on the games in their language.

Derek Hatley is one of the young commentators on the team, and he joined Jared Monkman live on the show to discuss talking hockey in Kaska.

A Kinosao Sipi man is suing the attorney general of Manitoba, saying he’s being denied access to Indigenous cultural ceremonies while under house arrest in Winnipeg. Ernest Hart alleges the decision violates his Charter right to freedom of religion.

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.

Vern Lewis is in his first year teaching Aboriginal studies at a Frog Lake First Nation high school, and he's putting his computer science skills to work by using technology to teach tradition.

Toronto’s show, produced by Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company (HGJTC), features a Canadian supporting cast (13 of 24 of whom are Jewish), alongside several members of the New York creative team. Most of the Canadian actors in the supporting cast learned to speak Yiddish as part of their preparation for the show.

Discover how Canada and Korea deepened creative ties through a year of cultural exchange, fostering collaboration, partnerships and new opportunities.

Highly anticipated Hindi-language film Dhurandhar: The Revenge is drawing huge crowds to theatres for a second straight weekend. The two biggest movie chains in the country say there is growing demand for international cinema, and they’re bringing a boost to the box office.