It can be beautiful, surprising, thought-provoking or funny — art is an important way that we think about ourselves and our country. You’ll meet all kind of artists and see their work in this issue of Kayak.
Book Review: Yardwork is author Daniel Coleman’s journey to intimately understand Hamilton’s stories — using his garden in the shadow of the Niagara Escarpment as a frame of reference.
What do you like to do in your spare time? First of all, you’re lucky to have spare time at all, compared to kids in Canada’s past. But, from simple toys to schoolyard games, kids have always been good at finding fun things to do.
Book Review: In his memoir, entitled Wrestling with Colonialism on Steroids, writer and broadcaster Zebedee Nungak shares with readers both a history of Nunavik (the Arctic region of Quebec) and his first-hand experience of the James Bay hydroelectric project in the early 1970s.
From the archive: The babies of the Hudson Bay Company reveal the schism that divided white society from people of colour in the early twentieth century.
Book Review: May Wong’s book presents Victoria as a city that welcomed and, mostly, embraced a wide range of people from all over the world — long before Canada's policy of multiculturalism.
