Activism

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    Advocacy in motion

    BySara Pot

    “What makes something significant enough for a museum collection – and what gets overlooked?” Questions like these framed our family’s conversations as we toured the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) this summer. Together, we viewed countless exhibits, from prehistoric fossils and an ancient Egyptian cat mummy to First Nations art and modern furniture, testifying to years…

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    Free to feast

    ByMaaike VanderMeer

    Recently, I wandered into the Vancouver Art Gallery to see the work of Tamio Wakayama, a Japanese-Canadian photojournalist. He was born in 1941 in New Westminster, B.C., and died in 2018 in Vancouver. Shortly after his birth, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and Wakayama’s family was forcibly moved into an internment camp. According to the…