Do Inuit languages really have many words for snow? The most interesting finds from our study of 616 languages
Staff
April 12, 2025
Languages with top scores for “snow” are all spoken in snowy regions.
Category: Education
Changing the Eurocentric narrative about the history of science—why multiculturalism matters
Staff
April 10, 2025
In the 11th century in Cairo, the foundations for modern science were laid through the detention of an innocent man.
David Suzuki: It’s time to clean up classroom oil spills
David Suzuki
April 8, 2025
Providing classroom materials to schools is part of a larger strategy to downplay or deny the impacts of burning gas, oil, and coal.
Canada should recognize celebrations like Eid, Diwali, and Lunar New Year as public holidays
Staff
March 30, 2025
“For Eid we have to call in sick and I don’t like that,” says a student in Albera. “You should have the day off school.”
Elisapie’s Juno-nominated album: Promoting Inuktitut through music
Staff
March 27, 2025
The word Inuktitut means “like the Inuit,” and is the name for part of a wider language continuum spoken across the North American Arctic.
How dreams, prophecies, and intuitions can impact the decision to migrate
Staff
March 27, 2025
Migration policies focus on border control, but rarely consider the social and cultural dynamics—including dreams—that shape aspirations.
How the colour of St. Patrick’s Day went from blue to green
Staff
March 14, 2025
The flag representing the president of Ireland has a gold harp with a dark blue background—the colour known as St. Patrick’s blue.
Scholar Josephine Chiu-Duke will speak at UBC about how Chinese humanistic tradition informs Taiwanese democracy
Charlie Smith
March 5, 2025
Chiu-Duke, a UBC professor of Chinese Intellectual history, will deliver her lecture at 3 p.m. on Thursday (March 6).
In NiiMisSak: Sisters in Film, Jules Koostachin shows how Alanis Obomsawin continues inspiring Indigenous women filmmakers
Charlie Smith
March 2, 2025
GEMFest 2025 will screen NiiMisSak, which features interviews with seven B.C.-based Indigenous women filmmakers in addition to Obamsawin.
Museum of Anthropology at UBC presents first exhibition dedicated to Nuxalk Nation
Charlie Smith
February 26, 2025
The museum exhibition illustrates the Nuxalk Nation’s efforts to revive ancestral government, laws, and protocols.
David Suzuki: It’s time to clean up classroom oil spills
David Suzuki
April 8, 2025
Elisapie’s Juno-nominated album: Promoting Inuktitut through music
Staff
March 27, 2025
How dreams, prophecies, and intuitions can impact the decision to migrate
Staff
March 27, 2025
How the colour of St. Patrick’s Day went from blue to green
Staff
March 14, 2025
Scholar Josephine Chiu-Duke will speak at UBC about how Chinese humanistic tradition informs Taiwanese democracy
Charlie Smith
March 5, 2025
Museum of Anthropology at UBC presents first exhibition dedicated to Nuxalk Nation
Charlie Smith
February 26, 2025
The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish Nation), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation). With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.
This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.