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  • Edmonton’s Caribbean Journey

    Donna Coombs-Montrose

    The flights touched down at a Canadian International Airport bringing scores of eager Caribbean nationals, their suitcases packed with their…

  • The Tamale & Pupusa – A Culinary Journey To Canada

    Amrita Gill

    I remember the first time I met Elba, mother of my close friend Yazmin (or Yaz as friends and family…

  • Edmonton’s South Asian Community

    Sam Singh

    Today, Edmonton is home to more than 60,000 people of South Asian heritage.  Speaking Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati, Bengali, Malayalam,…

  • Sikh Community’s ‘Seva Truck’ Tackles Food Insecurity & Poverty Through Heritage

    Amrita Gill

    Jessy Nerval, 19 at the time, sat in the family room with his Father after dinner. They were discussing business….

  • From There to Here: Reflections and Storytelling

    Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

    Monday, July 27 was warm, as you’d expect on a summer day in Edmonton. In the open space of the…

  • The Spruce of Mill Creek School

    Christina Hardie

    Since time immemorial, Indigenous peoples have lived with the land upon which Mill Woods is built. Words like Sakaw, Meyokumin…

  • Long live the Pits!

    Christina Hardie

    You won’t find the Pits marked on any map, and many people who live nearby simply refer to the area…

  • The Pits of Mill Woods

    Christina Hardie

    I grew up in South East Mill Woods. My back gate opened into a sprawling wheat field, scattered with dense…