Dear Readers, I don't know where to begin. If this doesn’t summarize my experience as a woman, I don’t know what does. How does one even begin to articulate the complex nature of navigating the world as a woman?

Because I see the connectedness of all forms of oppression and I believe we need to fight them with this awareness.

It's written in the stars.

The pandemic saved my life. I don’t mean in the literal way where someone grabs you out of the middle of the road before you’re run down by a speeding bus. It was more like the pandemic ripped me out of mainstream life, threw me inside my house, and locked the door from the outside.

We hurl our bikes across the finish line, heads down, heartbeats pounding in our ears and gasping for air. I savour these sensations, utterly spent, legs heavy with lactic acid, brimming with a mix of gratitude and disbelief as I feel my teammates beside me, each of us trying to slow our bikes to...

As the director of COVID Conversations: Her Perspective, my goal was to capture different women’s experiences, as they navigated through the COVID-19 pandemic. While this was a time of uncertainty and anxiety for many, it also ended up being highly transformative for many women and young girls. I...

The definition of Yoga is yuj, to yoke with the universal, the collective; you can’t have Yoga without the entire collective being represented in its classes.

As we round the corner out of the dark recesses of Winter and into the promise of Spring, we cannot help but think of all that we’ve endured. That’s the paradox of life, isn’t it? When we’re low, we look ahead, grappling with the hope of things to come; when we have our time in the sun, we...

Quadruple-decorated Canadian Olympian-turned-Liberal member of Parliament Adam van Koeverden is no stranger to hard-won endeavours. His metamorphosis from beloved homegrown Olympic champion to rookie politician feels like a natural progression from one phase of his life into another. Is politics his...

Over the past year, it has never been clearer that different groups of people are living contrasting realities. For some, the struggle of living in a world with COVID-19 is hard enough; for Asians, the rise of Sinophobia against the backdrop of the coronavirus has created a twin pandemic, with many...

Are we due for a laugh?

A new season brings a new focus for our philanthropic endeavours. We are happy to announce our charitable partnership with Uplift Kitchen in Toronto, ON. As always, it's for the people, by the people.

How much of a difference can one woman and her community make against emotional isolation and physical hunger during a pandemic?

The way we describe our consumption of media is often likened to our consumption of food. It’s embedded in our metaphors: “That’s food for thought”, “I’m binging on this new Netflix series”, “Let me chew on this (information) for a while”, or perhaps, “Once I have digested this,...

The Downtown East Side in Vancouver, BC is one of the oldest, most historic neighbourhoods in the city. It is also one of the most complex communities, plagued by homelessness, poverty, drug use, mental health issues, sex work, and unemployment. It is an area that is considered apocalyptic but...

Welcome to Torpedo Journal, a culture gazette encapsulating the spirit of our times. Torpedo Journal is the intersection where travel, art, humanities, science, and sport meet, born out of our aim to spotlight tastemakers, changemakers, and newsmakers. As the editors, we strive to bring you...

Young Olympic hopeful Jennifer Casson speaks about life, dashed hopes, and resilience in a jarring year of fits and starts.

With gyms, spin studios, Pilates/Yoga studios, and assorted dance and fitness centres playing a convoluted game of ‘are-we-open-or-closed?’ this year, many people are taking to the Great Outdoors, sparking a surprising resurgence for aimless walking.

Indian farmers have been slowly garnering international attention since late Fall 2020, as they staged growing protests in reaction to three bills easing restrictions on private players in the agricultural market. These bills, approved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi via circumvention of the...

What will 2021 bring to galleries, museums, and art shows? What will become of places we use to congregate to become inspired and enthralled, to consider a world filled with beauty and possibility? Can the appetite for art be satiated in a flat medium during a time when our traditional access is...