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Louise Arbour, former Supreme Court justice and human rights champion, is fighting to reform the Canadian military

LOUISE ARBOUR, a former Supreme Court justice and United Nations high commissioner for human rights, has spent her career taking on the world’s most notorious human rights violators. And yet one of her most formidable challenges is domestic. In May, Arbour released the results of her year-long inquiry into the Canadian Armed Forces, sparked by a string of sexual misconduct allegations—some involving the organization’s top brass. The report was unequivocally damning: the military’s culture is deficient; its colleges outdated. “I was told that almost every female cadet has experienced an incident or more of sexual misconduct ‘or worse,’ ” she wrote. Now, the federal government is tasked with implementing Arbour’s 48 recommendations, which include handing over sexual misconduct cases to civilian courts. Progress is slow, and Arbour is patient—to a…

Louise Arbour, former Supreme Court justice and human rights champion, is fighting to reform the Canadian military

Tax million-dollar-home owners

I’M 47 YEARS OLD NOW, but I started the “think and change tank” Generation Squeeze when I was 36. Its mandate was to tackle generational unfairness, and one of the first areas I looked at was, unsurprisingly, housing. I got into the Metro Vancouver property market in 2004—well before many millennials. I bought a single-family detached home for $540,000, and my mortgage still sits at well over $400,000 even though I’ve been paying it down for 18 years. That said, since buying, I’ve made more than a million dollars in equity. My partner and I have been able to do quite a few renos—and even some additional investing—in large part because of the financial gains we’ve made from the home. At one point, our place had tons of leaks and…

Tax million-dollar-home owners

The buyers: Martin Chiu, a 39-year-old operations support officer; Nicole Chiu, a 39-year-old stay-at-home mom; and their kids: Jacob, who’s nine, Chloe, who’s four, Nate, who’s two, and Clarke, who’s seven months. The budget: $300,000 The backstory: In 2011, the Chiu family moved into an East Vancouver home owned by Martin’s parents. In many ways, it was the ideal arrangement. The couple had the lower unit—a two-bedroom, one-bathroom suite—all to themselves. Plus, they could still enjoy weekly family dinners, babysitting perks (as needed), visits to Kitsilano Beach and community events hosted by their local church. But when Martin and Nicole’s third child, Nate, came along in 2019, the couple took over the home’s more spacious three-bedroom upper unit. Before they moved in with Martin’s parents, they had eyed a place…

IT DIDN’T TAKE LONG for Reservation Dogs to secure Hollywood’s stamp of approval. In the year since its debut, the FX dramedy—which is co-created by Oscar-winner Taika Waititi—has clinched a Peabody, a Golden Globe nomination and an Independent Spirit Award for best ensemble cast. The team itself is an entertainment industry anomaly, though: every single one of the show’s writers and actors is Indigenous—including fan favourite Paulina Alexis. The 20-year-old actress, who plays the tough-talking, tear-jerking character Willie Jack, hails from the Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation in Alberta. Her childhood was full of on-screen opportunities: Alexis’s father, Robb, owned a small production company. “I would play around with my brothers and make my own little skits,” Alexis recalls. But it wasn’t until she turned 18 that she went pro. Alexis’s…

JULIE JODOIN IS FINE WITH most descriptions of Montreal’s Biodôme—just not zoo. “At a zoo, you observe animals,” says Jodoin, acting director of Space for Life, the city-owned organization that operates the popular museum. “Here, you’re immersed in their world.” Since its opening in 1992, the Biodôme has housed 200-plus species in five reproduced ecosystems beneath the soaring concrete vault of the city’s Olympic velodrome. Live lynxes prowl the perimeter of its Laurentian Maple Forest, while the Tropical Rainforest area comes complete with outfit-soaking mists. By 2014, however, Space for Life’s leadership felt that the Biodôme wasn’t immersive enough. That year, the museum launched an international design competition, with the goal of adjusting the building’s rote, linear traffic flow and expanding visitors’ exposure to the animals. The winner was Kanva,…

Sam Effah’s Olympic sprinting days may be in the past, but he’s still a man on the go. In late July, Effah will represent Team Canada as one of two chefs de mission for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. This week, he split his spending between work and play. Monday Last night, I flew to Ottawa to light the Canada Games torch at the Centennial Flame monument on Parliament Hill. It was such an honour. Pascale St-Onge, the minister of sport, was there. I started my day with a three-egg omelette and coffee ($24) from room service. I don’t normally drink coffee, but I needed to stay alert. Tuesday My mom is coming to visit at the end of the month, so my wife, Sofia, and I bought…

PORTRAIT OF A PROVINCE IN FLAMES ABOUT 40 YEARS AGO, THE STORY GOES, SEVERAL TIBETAN BUDDHIST MONKS declared that they had discovered the centre of the universe in the mountains north of Kamloops, British Columbia. The monks, who visited several times, were reportedly able to identify the spot—a grassy knoll near Deadman River—by its distinctive volcanic topography and through a series of numinous tests, one of which was the ability to start a fire in the area without an ignition source. In 2016, Marshall Potts bought 160 acres of land about an hour’s drive from the centre of the universe. Like the monks, Potts—a 54-year-old country-rock musician and self-described “spiritual guy” who’d previously lived in the Lower Mainland—found the landscape magical. There were soul-stirring groves of Douglas fir, verdant grasslands,…

“I cut my teeth as a volunteer firefighter in Langley, starting in 1989. In 2015, when we moved up here, the chief saw my fire hat. After six months, he said, ‘You start Wednesday.’ I moved up the ranks pretty quickly, and when the chief retired, council put me in. I didn’t have much experience with wildfires other than when Langley sent me to Salmon Arm in 1998 to help out and then in Kelowna in 2003. Last year, when the Tremont Creek fire threatened Logan Lake, it was a whole different situation. My son is here; my family is here. My neighbours and co-workers are here. We watched the fire approach for 10 days, and the moment it went over Tunkwa Lake, we knew we were in trouble. We…

MARK & LISA SCHUITEMA

LISA: “We’ve been here for seven years. When you live here and you start to see the smoke—and all you see is smoke—it makes you feel a little panicky and anxious. There were some years where it wasn’t very smoky, we didn’t have fires nearby and it was relatively good. Then there are summers where the last half would just be smoke. You don’t do anything outside. Last year, though, the fire from Lytton came right down to us. I was always watching the fire map to see where the border was changing. I would look up and say, ‘Okay, it’s going up; there’s not too much to worry about.’ But then it started coming this way, and I was thinking, Crap, it’s getting close. Then, when a neighbour’s house,…

MARK & LISA SCHUITEMA

“For the first 20 years that I lived in Ashcroft, we thought of fire season in very general terms, if we thought about it at all. But in 2017, the Elephant Hill fire brought home the fact that you don’t have to live in or beside a forest to be affected by wildfire. Last season, there was a ring of fire around us. There was a lot of fear; two weeks earlier, Lytton, an hour south of us, had been burned to the ground. That happened so fast, and it was fresh in people’s minds. And suddenly we had a fire right at our doorstep. But we have a couple of lakes that serve as natural fire guards, and BC Wildfire was able to use roads as additional guards. The…

New Jobs, Reduced Pollution, and Improved Health: Are You Driving Electric?

What challenges does Canada’s EV industry face, and how are we working to tackle them? Supply chain: Needless to say, a vehicle, electric or not, is made up of a lot of parts. The same goes for charging infrastructure — different components must come together to see the production to its completion. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic that took the world by storm in 2020 decelerated the supply chain, and in fact, almost brought it to a halt. The electric vehicle (EV) industry, like many others, is currently playing catch up. ZEV mandate: Canada needs to adopt a zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate to ensure EVs are available for all Canadians. Education and training: Players in our industry are working furiously to educate the public on the benefits of EVs — not…

New Jobs, Reduced Pollution, and Improved Health: Are You Driving Electric?

The Past, Present, and Future of EVs: An Adventure in Invention

It’s been twenty years since electric vehicles (EVs) stormed onto the marketplace and into the public zeitgeist in a big way. However, it would be a mistake to imagine that these cars arrived on the scene in the early 2000s from nothing, wholly formed. Behind the scenes, the many technologies that go inside and under the hood of an EV had been in active development for decades. In the design centers of companies like Nissan, the spirit of discovery that made the first generation of EVs possible has only continued to accelerate in the years since. We’re in the middle of the story and the next chapter is a thrilling one Believe it or not, the first electric cars can be found all the way back in the nineteenth century,…

The Past, Present, and Future of EVs: An Adventure in Invention

Going Green Is a Team Sport. We Need to Support Ridesharing Drivers to Go Electric

As the largest mobility platform in the world, we know that our impact goes beyond our technology. We’ve made a commitment to operate a zero-emission platform globally by 2040 and in Canadian cities with supportive policies — like Montreal and Vancouver — by 2030. One of the ways we’re going to achieve this is by helping drivers on the Uber platform go electric. In a recent survey of drivers in Canada, we found that 71% are interested in switching to an electric vehicle (EV). This is significant as we know that these drivers drive more than the average person, meaning that each one who switches to an EV has an outsized impact on putting green kilometres on our streets. But we also know that it can be challenging for drivers…

Going Green Is a Team Sport. We Need to Support Ridesharing Drivers to Go Electric

Leading the Future of Transportation with Sustainable EV Battery Recycling

Today, one technological shift is changing the future of transportation – electric vehicles (EVs). This movement towards clean, sustainable transport is leading automakers to quickly ramp up EV production. As the world’s largest economies continue to encourage electrification and the mass adoption of lithium-ion batteries — which power EVs — it’s becoming increasingly imperative that our planet also has a sustainable solution in place to support recycling at every stage of the lithium-ion battery lifecycle. That’s where Li-Cycle comes in. Since its inception, Canadian company, Li-Cycle, has created a sustainable and scalable solution to strengthen the EV battery supply chain by recovering up to 95% of all materials, including battery-grade lithium, nickel and cobalt, found within spent lithium-ion batteries. Li-Cycle co-founders Ajay Kochhar and Tim Johnston met while working at…

Leading the Future of Transportation with Sustainable EV Battery Recycling

The Tipping Point: How Electric Vehicles Became the Norm While We Weren’t Looking

Just a decade ago, the people shopping for electric vehicles (EVs) were a select few — the keenest tech enthusiasts, the fuel-price fatalists, and the profoundly eco-conscious. Since then, the world has become much more tech-forward, gas prices are back above 2012 highs, and we have all, out of necessity, become very aware of our personal climate impacts. But there’s more to it than that. Today, more than one in ten new Canadian vehicle registrations are electric vehicles of some stripe. What was only recently a niche market is now a robust segment with fully-developed offerings that fit the needs and budgets of even Canada’s most pragmatic car buyers. EV buyers are truly embracing the future of transportation today, as the industry transitions to more sustainable and environmentally-minded people movement.…

The Tipping Point: How Electric Vehicles Became the Norm While We Weren’t Looking

Q&A with Kia Canada COO Elias El-Achhab on the Canadian EV Market

What concerns do Canadian shoppers have about EVs? When surveying Canadians, the biggest concerns are still around range, charging infrastructure, and lifestyle. It’s true that much of Canada is made up of dense urban centres with vast spaces in between them. If you live in the prairies and have a lot of driving distance, an EV is probably not the right model for you today, but we’re working with governments and other entities to grow the infrastructure and change that. We’re also working to expand and support the adoption of electrified vehicles through a large network of EV-certified dealers and our first-ever EV Education Centre located in Vancouver. Who would benefit most from making the switch to an EV? If most or all of your driving is in and around…

Q&A with Kia Canada COO Elias El-Achhab on the Canadian EV Market

TROUBLE IN PARADISE

INSIDE A BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF COTTAGE COUNTRY. IT WAS THE TYPE OF WARM SPRING DAY that had brought Roger Oatley to Muskoka for more than two decades: towering green trees, fresh air, and boats with familiar faces welcoming everyone back to Canada’s most coveted cottage country. En route to his summer home in May of 2021, Oatley, a semi-retired personal injury lawyer, drove his boat past Sugarloaf Island: 14 quiet acres filled with white pines, hemlocks and cedars. Only this time he saw a huge gap of missing trees along the shoreline. The opening revealed that a massive chunk of Canadian Shield—the exposed Precambrian rock had been blasted to bits. Oatley thought it looked like a quarry right in the middle of Lake Joseph. His own cottage was…

TROUBLE IN PARADISE

A lot of queer people think 2SLGBTQ+ history is limited to metropolitan areas like New York or San Francisco, Toronto or Montreal. I came of age in rural New Brunswick, where my lack of exposure to anything queer—especially queer history—led me to believe that those stories weren’t there. I’ve since learned how naive that notion is, and that queer history exists, in some form or another, in every community across Canada. Growing up, I never saw myself represented in my surroundings. All I heard about gay people was that they were sissies, freaks, diseased, predatory. The last thing I wanted was to be queer. And yet I couldn’t hide it. I developed a deep-rooted self-hatred and internalized homophobia that took years to shake off. Even after coming out at age…

IT HAS BEEN AN INTENSE five years for Joshua Whitehead, marked by both personal loss and remarkable literary achievement. Since 2017, the Oji-Cree writer has published the poetry collection full-metal indigiqueer and the novel Jonny Appleseed, winner of both the 2019 Lambda prize for gay fiction and Canada Reads 2021. He’s also experienced the end of a long-term relationship, deaths in his family and, of course, the pandemic. Now 33 and a newly minted assistant professor of English at the University of Calgary, Whitehead has come out on the other side and continued his run of creative brilliance with Making Love With the Land, a collection of linked essays set for an August 23 release. Making Love defies categorization, with elements of manifesto, memoir, apologia, literary theory, experimental writing and…

TOKENS OF APPRECIATION

LIKE MOST PEOPLE, artist Victor Mosquera had no idea what an NFT was two years ago. Mosquera, who is 32, was born in Bogota, and growing up in Colombia provided him with an unusual motivation to pursue his passion for art and music. “The economy there is really bad. There are lawyers and doctors driving Uber because they can’t get a job,” he says, sipping an iced coffee on a windy June day near his studio in Vancouver’s Yaletown. “I thought, If I study something I hate just because it’s ‘safe,’ I might still end up as an Uber driver. So I’m just going to do whatever I want.” He taught himself how to make art—both traditional and digital—and posted his work online, eventually catching the attention of the video…

TOKENS OF APPRECIATION

AGAINST THE ODDS

WHEN SINGLE-SPORT online gambling became legal in Ontario in April, I received text messages from many friends asking how I felt about the barrage of online casino ads popping up all over Toronto like whack-a-moles. I would write back a quip about how much I was learning. For example, I’ve learned the precise spot to cross the street so that I don’t come face-to-face with the large banner ad for the MGM Casino promising to bring Las Vegas to Toronto, which hangs on the side of the bodega at the end of our street. I’ve also learned to mute the TV while backing out of the room as soon as the third out is recorded during Blue Jays telecasts to ensure that I don’t catch the first commercial (there’s an…

AGAINST THE ODDS

“Sharing my recipes from Mexico helped me reclaim my identity here”

I GREW UP IN MAZATLÁN, MEXICO, right by the beach. I moved to Guadalajara for university and stayed on to work there as an English teacher. That’s where I met my future husband, Federico, who was an engineering student at the time. In 1989, just before the birth of our first son, we moved to Juárez, which is right by the U.S. border. We had a good life: Federico worked as an engineer in an electronics factory, we lived in a beautiful house with our three sons, and we loved travelling around Mexico. I cooked for my neighbours and friends all the time—dishes like fried quesadillas and sopes, which are small filled tortillas. I always thought, If we don’t mess with the wrong people, we’ll be safe. But in Mexico,…

“Sharing my recipes from Mexico helped me reclaim my identity here”

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