Inspiring People
Robert Nahanee: Keeping the Memory of Indigenous Veterans Alive
A Canadian Forces veteran and Squamish Nation Elder, Robert Nahanee has spent two decades making sure the service…
November 2026
This Month’s Inspiring Ten
Every month, ten people, books, finds and places worth knowing, chosen and checked by our team. Each list links to the sources we used.
10 Inspiring Canadians
People across the country who lift the people around them.
Inspiring People
Virginia Hicks: An RCAF Veteran Standing Up for Military Families
Virginia Hicks of Frankford, Ontario, served nearly 30 years in the RCAF. As the 2026 National Silver Cross…
Inspiring People
Maureen Bianchini-Purvis: The Edmonton Founder of No Stone Left Alone
What began as one family's poppy on a veteran's grave in Edmonton is now No Stone Left Alone,…
Inspiring People
Debbie Lowther: Helping Homeless Veterans Back on Their Feet
Debbie Lowther of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, co-founded VETS Canada in 2010 to find veterans in crisis and help…
Inspiring People
Nate Leipciger: A Holocaust Survivor’s Lifetime of Teaching
Holocaust survivor Nate Leipciger came to Toronto in 1948 and has spent decades teaching students what he lived…
Inspiring People
Eva Kuper: The Hidden Child Who Teaches Montreal to Remember
Eva Kuper was hidden by rescuers as a small child in wartime Poland. Decades later, the retired Montreal…
Inspiring People
Cindy Blackstock: Standing Up for First Nations Children
For years, Cindy Blackstock has pressed Canada to treat First Nations children fairly. In October 2026, NOSM University…
Inspiring People
John Ogrodniczuk: Helping Men Talk About Depression
A survey in a doctor's waiting room showed John Ogrodniczuk how many men were struggling in silence. His…
Inspiring People
Lesley Kelly: Making Mental Health Part of Life on the Farm
Saskatchewan grain farmer Lesley Kelly helped start a national conversation about mental health in agriculture. The foundation she…
Inspiring People
Jeannine Tremblay-Dubois: The Volunteer Behind the Poppies in Saguenay
Since 2001, Jeannine Tremblay-Dubois has given her time to the Royal Canadian Legion in Saguenay, from its kitchens…
10 Canadian Authors to Read
Writers from coast to coast, and the books to start with.
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Melissa Dawn: Leading With Both Heart and Strategy
Montreal executive coach Melissa Dawn left a corporate marketing career to help leaders find a more human way…
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Nicholas Herring: The PEI Fisherman on the 2026 Giller Shortlist
Nicholas Herring fishes and builds in Murray Harbour, PEI, and writes novels in between. His second, Your Breath…
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Tara Gereaux: A Métis Story of Hidden Identity on the Giller Shortlist
Regina writer Tara Gereaux reconnected with her Métis roots and wrote Wild People Quiet, a 2026 Giller Prize…
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Nazanine Hozar: Telling the Story of Child Soldiers in The Small Ones
Tehran-born and raised in Surrey, BC, Nazanine Hozar is a 2026 Giller Prize finalist for The Small Ones,…
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Blair Palmer Yoxall: Métis Women and the Prairies of 1885
Calgary writer Blair Palmer Yoxall is a 2026 Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist for Treat Them as Buffalo,…
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Ashraf Zaghal: A Jerusalem Childhood in Seven Heavens Away
Jerusalem-born Toronto poet Ashraf Zaghal is a 2026 Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist for Seven Heavens Away, the…
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Trina Moyles: The Fire Lookout Who Wrote About Bears and Her Brother
Trina Moyles spent summers alone in a fire tower in northern Alberta, watching for smoke and for bears.…
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Loghan Paylor: The Canada Reads Winner Who Wrote People Like Them Into History
Loghan Paylor went looking in the archives for people like them and came back with a novel. The…
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Gabriel Marcoux-Chabot: A Novel Written in a Language That Does Not Exist Yet
Gabriel Marcoux-Chabot built a whole people, a culture of snow and shovels, and a language to go with…
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Yves Sioui Durand and Catherine Joncas: Forty Years of Ondinnok, Now in a Book
In 1985, Yves Sioui Durand and Catherine Joncas helped found Ondinnok, Canada's first francophone Indigenous theatre company. Their…
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Julian Brave NoiseCat: Telling an Indigenous Story the Coyote Way
Julian Brave NoiseCat co-directed the Oscar-nominated documentary Sugarcane. His first book, We Survived the Night, is a finalist…
10 Made in Canada Finds
Things worth buying, designed and made here.
10 Canadian Entrepreneurs to Watch
Founders building something new in Canada.
10 Canadians Giving Back
Volunteers, charities and community builders making a difference.
10 Places to Visit in Canada
Where to go this month, and why now.
