
Plant Life
The Creator On the cover: Herbalist Gina Badger harnesses plants’ wisdom and healing (in small doses)
The Creator On the cover: Herbalist Gina Badger harnesses plants’ wisdom and healing (in small doses)
Caring for the dome atop Vancouver’s Sun Tower
Multimedia designer Yusef Frasier’s multi-use, work-from-home situation
Silk Laundry’s founder, Katie Kolodinski, on longevity and butterflies
Winnie Truong’s bursting terrarium
Sights and strolling around Montreal’s Cité Multimédia
Douglas Coupland’s frenzy of emojis for Allied and Westbank’s latest collab
Kitchener’s Tannery District remains a beacon of industriousness
Creativity and labour
Meat Studio’s Chinese Protest Recipes by The God of Cookery
Misbah Ahmed’s urban infill
Perkins&Will’s Vancouver studio is as green as the architecture firm’s practices
Work-In-Progress How the Winnipeg Art Gallery brought thousands of Inuit sculptures into the light
Rage, sadness and hope: Decolonizing our arts institutions
ILLUSTRATIONS BY KAGAN MCLEOD
Alana Paterson is an editorial and commercial photographer based on the West Coast of Canada. She likes trucks, dogs, boats, plants and photography. She shot our cover subject
Mélanie Ritchot (Work-in-Progress) is a Nunavut-based journalist who abides by the Benjamin Franklin sentiment “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” You can find her reporting at the Nunatsiaq News.
Toronto artist Winnie Truong (Artist’s Block) works with drawing, cut paper and animation to explore the ideas of identity, feminism and fantasy. She has exhibited across North America and Europe.
Chantal Braganza is a Toronto-based writer and senior editor at Chatelaine. In this issue, she shares her thoughts on motherhood and creativity (Rethink). Her first book, Guardian Flesh, is forthcoming from Strange Light.
Kristina Ljubanovic
Whitney Geller, Yasemin Emory, Berkeley Poole
Fredo Zavarella
Catherine Dean
Michael Nyarkoh
Raj Grainger, Emmi Ojansivu
Catherine Connes
Suzanne Aubin, Jane Fielding, Lesley Fraser
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