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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

    It was where we’d hunt for tadpoles in the spring and build tree forts in the summer—a wild place where real life blended with childhood make-believe.