Author: rachel

(Collagraph print of Rana Plaza by Catherine Cartwright)

How the Fashion Industry is Picking Up the Threads After Rana Plaza

We can’t get enough fast fashion. Globally, we consume more than 80 billion pieces of clothing each year, many of them hyper-trendy, low-cost items that move from runway to sale rack at breakneck speed. Fashion is a trillion-dollar-a-year industry that increasingly relies on rock-bottom retail prices. The amount of made-in-Canada […]

An array of traditional ceremony items.

Indigenous Health Institute Aims to Address “Corrosive Effects of Poverty” and Colonization

The Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health is the world’s first privately endowed research institute dedicated to the health of Indigenous Peoples. Created last June with a $10-million gift from Michael and Amira Dan, the institute was unveiled on March 23 of this year at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana […]