People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.

It’s the late 2010s and I’m a teenager carefully watching my mom out of my peripheral. She’s paying attention to the TV and the animated man on the screen in a hilarious combination of suit, tie, and ...

Rosie Archie knew she wanted to be a skater when she was 12 years old. Her older sister Charmie was already good enough to land tricks, and Archie was not far behind. There were no skate parks in Cani...

A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.

Ronnie Riley learned through social media that their first novel was facing censorship. Riley was scrolling late one evening when they saw what appeared to be a leaked school memo. Their middle-grade ...

The Ken Popert Media Fellowship program was developed to fund innovative journalism projects that bring new voices to Xtra and provide an opportunity for journalists to learn about LGBTQ2S+ media and…

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Rosie Archie knew she wanted to be a skater when she was 12 years old. Her older sister Charmie was already good enough to land tricks, and Archie was not far behind. There were no skate parks in Cani...

Arctic Canada is filling with puddles. Springtime in the Yukon looks astonishingly similar to June in Ontario. The days are long. Deer bite the heads off flowers deep in the forest. Icy mountains sti...

Our themes for 2026 will be announced soon! Writers’ Guidelines This Magazine welcomes queries only, not already written pieces. A good This Magazine article offers background and context to ongoin...

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This Magazine is hiring a News Editor! Applications are due Friday, September 5 at noon EST. Are you always on top of the Canadian news cycle? Are you well-versed on a wide variety of news topics? A...

This Magazine is hiring a News Editor! Applications are due Friday, September 5 at noon EST. Are you always on top of the Canadian news cycle? Are you well-versed on a wide variety of news topics? A...

Arctic Canada is filling with puddles. Springtime in the Yukon looks astonishingly similar to June in Ontario. The days are long. Deer bite the heads off flowers deep in the forest. Icy mountains sti...

Lisa Whittington-Hill on why Courtney Love deserves to be the girl with the most cake.

I never used to see rabbits in Toronto. Then they were everywhere. Then I lost my mind.

In the middle of the 2023 fire season, A Critical Incident Stress Management counsellor came to our fire base. The season had been unprecedentedly busy, even with wildfires ramping up in recent years,...

“Give your daughters difficult names. Names that command the full use of the tongue. My name makes you want to tell me the truth. My name does not allow me to trust anyone who cannot pronounce it righ...

"I still remember everything about it," Zakaria Amara says, sketching the library inside Millhaven Institution, a maximum-security prison located in Bath, Ontario. He maps the librarian’s glass office...

A look at how Online News Act funds are being distributed

It’s the late 2010s and I’m a teenager carefully watching my mom out of my peripheral. She’s paying attention to the TV and the animated man on the screen in a hilarious combination of suit, tie, and ...

As the CJC hands out millions to ‘Canadian’ media under the federal Online News Act, our Indigenous newsroom is left behind

How The Go-Go's emerged from the Los Angeles punk scene in the late '70s to become the first and only female band to have a number one album in Beauty and the Beat.

Allegations of inappropriate behavior in his life offstage contrast with Butler’s virtuous public reputation. In lengthy comments, the frontman claims his extramarital relationships were consensual.

Dead for over a decade, the iconic singer-songwriter has never gotten the same due as her male counterparts

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Each year, over 500 seniors are reported missing to the Toronto Police. As the city ages and dementia rates rise, what can we do to ensure older Torontonians get home safe?

After seven years in office, Doug Ford has left his mark on Toronto. From health care to education, online gambling to the Greenbelt, we examine the record of the Progressive Conservative leader seeki...