In any other year, a beer ad depicting an immigrant sailing across the sea to find the American dream would not be controversial.

This is not any other year.

Budweiser's new Super Bowl ad portrays the 1857 journey of its co-founder Adolphus Busch from Germany to St Louis....

Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, has been charged with six counts of murder for a mass shooting at a Quebec City mosque — but so far, not any terrorism-related offences.

Six Muslim worshippers were killed and 19 others wounded.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did call it a "despicable act...

Well, that was quite the 'effin week.

The opening days of the Trump era have sent the world into a tailspin as we've been bombarded non-stop by bad news, "alternative facts" and executive orders threatening marginalized communities in the U.S. and abroad.

It's enough to give the...

Picture this, if you will. A big corporation holds an annual event to help break the stigma of physical health. You see, people are ashamed when they get sick so they don't go to the doctor. It's been bad, and it's getting worse. People's health is failing, many are becoming...

Indigenous sports mascots, logos and names come up in the news and on social media every time a football team from Washington makes the Superbowl or a baseball club from Cleveland gets to the World Series. But the vast majority of these teams are not professional, they are in our...

Buffy Sainte-Marie has been an activist as long as she's been a world famous folk singer, which is six (!) decades, and in both fields she's always used her smarts to help us see the world as it really is.

On the heels of news that she will receive...

Protests and supporters gather as Donald Trump takes the oath of office and becomes the 45th president of the United States, during the Jan. 20, 2016 inauguration ceremony in Washington D.C. (Photo: Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

It's midnight in America....

Justin Trudeau was elected prime minister with a campaign fuelled by "sunny ways," but a few months back he ran out of solar power.

Now, as human tornado Donald Trump begins his apocalyptic presidency and Conservative leadership candidates Kellie Leitch and Kevin O'Leary try to emulate him here at...

We've all been dealing with Donald Trump's face filling our timelines and newsfeeds on the daily since he kicked off his presidential campaign by calling Mexicans rapists. And there's no end in sight for the next four years.

Thankfully, a bunch of programmers have been busy creating browser extensions...

Toronto is planning to create the country's first indigenous business and cultural district.

"It's a timely initiative considering the reconciliation efforts that are underway across the country," said city Coun. Kristyn Wong-Tam. She initiated the idea about six years ago because her ward has one of the city’s largest indigenous...

2016 has been a transition year for gaming.

We're deep enough into the current generation of consoles that developers are focused more on building worlds than figuring out the tech, resulting in some great games. Developers have also started taking some of the racial and gender diversity talk to...

It's been an awful year in the music world just everywhere else. Bookended by the deaths of legends like David Bowie and George Michael, we also lost artists across the musical spectrum including Leonard Cohen, Phife Dawg, Glenn Frey, Merle Haggard, Maurice White, Sharon Jones and Prince.

But as painful...

Bassel Mcleash, a gay Syrian refugee, came to Canada on the Rainbow Railroad.

The 29-year-old HIV-positive man, who once had to keep his sexuality a secret to avoid prison, arrived in Toronto in May as part of the organization's refugee resettlement program. A few weeks later, he was...

Every kid, no matter their cultural background, loves games and treats. So when I stopped by my son's Grade 1 and 2 split class this week to explain Hanukkah traditions, I arrived bearing dreidels (a spinning top game), gelt (chocolate coins) and...

Anti-black racism has been one of the defining issues of 2016 as police violence, racial profiling and trials (or lack thereof) prompted Black Lives Matter protests across the continent, including BLM-Toronto setting up camp at police headquarters and staging a sit-down during the Toronto's...

Eighties pop culture made a lot of predictions about the future that are coming true. "Back to the Future II" foretold the Cubs’ World Series win and the triumph of Biff Tannen Donald Trump.

The 1990s, meanwhile, led us to believe that virtual reality...

Gaming's fall flood is an annual tradition in the gaming world that ensures there's plenty to play while hibernating over the winter. But the fact that most of the best video games come out in the months before the holidays also means that they make great Christmas gifts.

There...

The alt-right may soon have their Emperor in the White House, but before they got political to help force Donald Trump into the presidency, the movement was largely focused on fomenting culture wars.

So it's hardly a "Luke, I am your father" surprise...

Rest assured, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story hits its target like the filmmakers were Luke Skywalker bullseyeing womp rats in his T-16 back home on Tatooine.

That's not just a too-clever comparison, either.

The farm boy-turned-Jedi's memorable boast from Star Wars: A New Hope was Luke claiming he...

A long time ago under a Christmas tree far, far away, there were no "Star Wars" presents to be opened.

Well, those dark times are long gone and thanks to Disney's cinematic revival — first with last year's "The Force Awakens" and now with "Rogue One," LucasFilm's first "A...