Here Magazine

Here Magazine, a newsroom of belonging

Here Magazine is a non-profit multimedia platform using Scoop.it as a running index of underrepresented voices in Canadian media. Its work is broad but coherent: it tracks who gets to belong, whose history is recognized, whose language survives, and which institutions still need to change.

The margin as the centre

Here Magazine follows Canada from the vantage point of people often left outside the main frame. Newcomers, Indigenous communities, Black communities and minority-language cultures are not treated as sidebars; they are the lens through which the country is understood.

Witness and uplift

The selection repeatedly pairs hard news with community resilience. A story about discrimination may sit near one about a festival, a legal clinic, a cultural centre or an education program, creating a rhythm of witness and repair.

Canada in many places

Its sources lean Canadian and English-language, but the map is broad: Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Atlantic Canada and the North all appear. The result is a national portrait built from local signals.

What defines this selection

A large living archive

The five analysed topics account for more than 15,000 posts, all still active. The scale suggests a long-running public notebook on Canadian belonging, updated through national outlets, local media and community-focused sources.

Local stories, wider systems

CBC appears often, but the selection does not stay in one media lane. Regional newspapers, Indigenous outlets, diaspora publications and international sources help connect local incidents to national and global patterns.

Care with a critical edge

The strongest topics move between practical help and moral argument. Settlement resources, legal clinics, language preservation and cultural events appear beside stories about exploitation, racism, colonial legacy and institutional repair.

A restrained but clear voice

The editorial personality is usually quiet, letting headlines carry the story. When Here Magazine adds a note, the voice is warm, explicit and values-led, often explaining why a story matters for representation, justice or community belonging.

Deep dives

Belonging after arrival

The newcomers topic is the current front door to Here Magazine's editorial world. It treats settlement as more than paperwork: language help, legal support, community programs and small local projects appear beside stories about identity, memory and belonging.

The sharpest through-line is the cost of being welcomed on paper but blocked in practice. Posts on overqualification, exploitation, opaque visa processes and workplace abuse show newcomers facing systems that use their labour while undervaluing their skills.

The topic also resists easy cultural explanations. Stories about contracts, heritage, museums and family history ask readers to see immigrant experience as structural, personal and historically layered at the same time.

Racism as a system, not an incident

In Race and Society, Here Magazine reads racism as a pattern across institutions rather than a series of isolated incidents. Policing, medicine, education, public space and politics are linked by a steady interest in how harm becomes normalized.

The Canadian focus is strong, especially around anti-Black racism, Indigenous racism and the public systems that shape daily life. Health stories, childbirth outcomes, blood donation barriers and racial healing on campus make structural inequity concrete and intimate.

The topic also widens the frame beyond Canada when the pattern demands it. Reparations, white nationalism and race riots appear not as detours but as part of a larger conversation about memory, power and accountability.

Sovereignty, memory and Indigenous-led futures

The Indigenous Stories and Education topic combines law, memory and everyday community life. Land, treaty rights, state obligations and residential school legacies sit alongside youth, education, health and cultural expression.

Here Magazine gives sustained attention to what reconciliation requires in practice. Posts on testimonies, Orange Shirt Day, Indigenous health obligations and school infrastructure keep the focus on records, resources and responsibilities, not symbolic gestures alone.

The topic is not only about state failure. It also makes room for Indigenous-led strength: land guardians, fire crews, film, teachings, child welfare initiatives and community events that show sovereignty as lived practice.