identity

Canada

Danielle Smith unveils sweeping changes to Alberta’s student gender identity, sports and surgery policies

Alberta will prohibit hormonal treatment, puberty blockers and gender affirming surgery for children 15 years and younger, Premier Danielle Smith announced Wednesday…

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Nova Scotia

Charlene Carr explores Black and biracial identity in the Maritimes with her novel We Rip the World Apart

Charlene Carr is the author of Hold My Girl. (Charlene Carr) The Next Chapter12:55The cost of keeping silent in We…

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Canada

Why reintroducing bison is revitalizing the Prairies and Indigenous culture, identity

On the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation west of Brandon, Man., schoolchildren are throwing pumpkins into a bison pen, a ceremony…

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Canada

Nurse tells B.C. hearing she’s not transphobic, but calls gender identity ‘metaphysical nonsense’

A B.C. nurse accused of making numerous “derogatory and discriminatory” public statements about transgender people took the stand in her…

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Canada

How, when and why CBC News investigates claims of Indigenous identity

We use this editor’s blog to explain our journalism and what’s happening at CBC News. You can find more blogs…

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Entertainment

Buffy Sainte-Marie calls Indigenous identity questions hurtful

Buffy Sainte-Marie, a musician known for decades of Indigenous activism, says she’s always been honest that she doesn’t know where…

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Canada

Who is Latin American? Canadian residents with roots in the Americas grapple with terms, identity

Before Karla Martínez Pomier came to Canada, she didn’t relate strongly to being Latin American.  Martínez Pomier, a PhD candidate…

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Entertainment

With the birth of hip-hop, I found a fashion and cultural identity I could call my own

This First Person piece was written by Duke Eatmon, a music columnist in Montreal. For more information about CBC’s First…

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Canada

Algonquin members organize in fight for identity, land and nationhood

It’s almost like a game of colonial whack-a-mole. Everywhere Algonquin Nation members look these days, it seems a new problem…

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