How to improve conversations with Indigenous peoples
Indigenous authors Lee Maracle and Arthur Manuel say true reconciliation means restitution, not rhetoric
Crystals are hugely popular, but do they do anything?
Pretty stones are making a pretty penny. Whether their beauty heals is in the eye of the beholder.
New editor named
Longtime Observer managing editor Jocelyn Bell has been appointed the new editor and publisher of The Observer.
How philosopher-therapists help people lead meaningful lives
Move over, Freud.
A photographer’s 15,000-kilometre trek across the country
Jonathon Reed biked 15,000 kilometres across Canada earlier this year and met some fascinating people on his journey.
Why this Alabama county voted almost unanimously for Donald Trump
One year after the election, we travel to Winston County to try to understand why.
A minister talks about growing up in Adolf Hitler’s Germany
Martin Rumscheidt on his father’s complicity in the Nazi extermination of Jewish people.
New Observer editor appointed
I’m pleased to announce that the Board of Directors has approved the selection of Jocelyn Bell as the new editor and publisher
5 celebrity-led movements changing activism
October 2017 may go down in history as the turning point for celebrity protest. Arguably for the first time, actors, singers, chefs,
A tale of two cancers
One year after the writer discovered she had breast cancer, her sister in California received the same diagnosis. They both recovered, but
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