Our Renee Sylvestre-Williams wrote about whether we in Ontario should have more religious, more inclusive religious holidays. We later then had a Twitter chat - or as we call them, an Ethnichat - about the topic. It turned out to be a complicated, provocative topic! For those who couldn't make it, we've selected some of the responses in a Storify below:
Read MoreSimon Yau wonders whether the Christian-flavoured Burger’s Priest is kinda weird. Would Hamburgers Halal or Buddha Burgers be as popular?
Does circumcision make you Jewish? Lea Zeltserman is a diversity-loving Torontonian married to a non-Jew who found herself planning a bris for her unborn child.
Read MoreKelli Korducki is a “Cultural Catholic:” she misses the rituals, pomp and circumstance, even if she doesn’t entirely believe in the faith.
Read MoreOntario has two statutory holidays with a religious origin, and they’re both Christian. Should we have days off for Chinese New Year or Diwali, too? Renee Sylvestre-Williams tackles this complicated question.
Read MoreHeather Li wondered why her family was Catholic. The answer was surprising. Was her family tricked into Catholicism?
Read MoreHow do you square being modern and being religious? That’s one of the questions Navneet Alang posed to local Sikh banker and philanthropist Suresh Bhalla.
Read MoreTemples, synagogues and street corners: Denise Balkissoon takes you on a tour of a few religious buildings in Toronto that she’s visited.
Read More“Being both Muslim and queer always seemed like mutually exclusive identities to me.” Rahim Thawer explores how he came to see queerness and Islam as compatible, at least in himself.
Read MoreWhy are we doing a religion issue at all? ” For a lot of people, faith is far less about certain clothing, symbols or rituals and much more about how they see the world.“
Read MoreThe Wellness Issue
I wish I could share a different story of my reproductive life, one filled with love and ancient wisdom. But like the stories of many Indigenous women, mine reflects Canada’s ongoing legacy of colonization.
Our identities, no matter how malleable or elastic, are rooted in geographical locations. How do you get well when your wellness is connected to home, and home is thousands of miles away?
As an Indian yoga teacher in white spaces, I occupy a strange position: trying to honour the yogic tradition that I grew up with and simultaneously feeling unwelcome in the space.
Saving money for school, managing competing schedules and spending hours on public transit put immense pressure on me, and left no time to prioritize my health.
Chinese food and certain aspects of Eastern medicine have entered the mainstream, but traditional Chinese medicine is often regarded with suspicion and sometimes labelled as pseudoscience.
For centuries, community-focused care and ancestral healing knowledge have existed as practices of resistance and freedom for folks of colour.