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Whenever I hear people trying to justify social inequality between men and women based on social or religious ideologies, I have a hard time with it

The first collection of short stories by emerging author Anar Ali explores the Ismaili community's experience in Canada.

Our Canadian government, per athlete, funds olympic athletes and paralympic athletes dollar for dollar.

These same corporations who fail to give any funding to arts and culture whatsoever, reap huge benefits from a thriving arts and cultural community that is supported, frankly, by individuals or foundations.

Hockey is a great, fast and fluid game. You see less of that today.

You can go to the far reaches of Sri Lanka and they'll talk to you about the National Film Board!

In Canada we're lucky to have training centres all across the country. Living in a cold climate is no obstacle to developing as an athlete. We train differently in winter, that's all, and in the summer we perform just as well.

We have the exceptional opportunity to be both a national and a public institution.

We went from having a market share of a few percentage points in Quebec to a share of 18 per cent, compared to American and French films

It is my belief that much more could be done not only for culture, but for other sectors as well, if we were not limited by the narrow framework of the department responsible for culture.