For thousands of years, First Nations people have used tobacco, cedar, sage, and sweetgrass as medicinal compounds ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney is doing his best to make sure no Conservative government takes power in British Columbia. In the national project crapshoot, NDP Premier David Eby has scored four big ...

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre rises during Question Period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s leadership review will go down ...

Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s leadership review will go down on the former site of Stampede Wrestling. That may be appropriate. The storied grappler nights rumbled for decades in the ...

Playwright Jocelyn Bioh’s dramatic comedy opens with two of its characters, Marie (Jordan Rice), the 18-year-old daughter of the shop’s proprietor, and Miriam (Bisserat Tseggai), an only slightly ...

If ever a play seemed tailor-made — tailor-braided? — for the Mark Taper Forum stage, at least in the 2020s, it’s “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding.” The most intimate of the three Music Center theaters ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Harlem hair salon at the center of “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding,” Jocelyn Bioh’s exuberant workplace comedy, ...

To Robin Wall Kimmerer, a "wild place" is one where the creatures and plants have their way, taking care of the land with a little help from conservationists. Wall Kimmerer is a botanist, author and ...

Many issues in this book, “Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America” (Dutton, 336 pgs., $32 hardback), have been adequately ...

Living has always been challenging, certainly more so these days. Recently, I’ve been trying to trace my own path to getting my mind into a good place for dealing with it all. Just plain aging helps — ...