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Rainforest 'n Swells: Exploring Canada's Surftown

Tofino, British Columbia — As if you needed another reason to travel to British Columbia ... introducing Canada's newest 'it' destination.

  • Surf
  • D'Arcy Doran

Will Butler on why humour is the highest form of art

Learning to go with the flow... — Sometimes the multi-instrumentalist powerhouse behind Arcade Fire has to step out alone and do his own thing. And while taking time off from one of the biggest bands in the world requires single-minded self-belief, it just wouldn't work without the ability to laugh at himself.

  • Arcade Fire
  • Tom Fenwick

Transcending the cruel rhythms of life in Edmonton, Canada

Music-making in the “northern shitty oil-city” — Dave Ehrenreich’s documentary ‘Rhythm of Cruelty’ follows the Canadian band of the same name, duo and romantic partners Brandi Strauss and Ian Rowley. Ehrenreich shows how Strauss and Rowley are attempting to revise the negative stereotypes which they say are associated with Edmonton by following their dream of touring their experimental punk band.

  • Music
  • Christopher Sanders

Activists and growers are fighting Canada’s corporate cannabis takeover

Corporate Growth — Canada’s friendly neighbourhood marijuana grow-ops are about to get a corporate takeover. Huck meets the growers, investors, lawyers and activists who are dealing with a new top-down system where bottom lines, not blazing, rules supreme.

  • Activism
  • Rob Boffard

Canada is finally investigating murders of First Nations women

A breakthrough for justice — The homicide rate for indigenous women is four times the national average. At long last, Canada’s new government is no longer ignoring the problem.

  • Activism
  • Adam White

Diving for scallops with Canada's best chef

Putting Newfoundland and Labrador on the food map — Jeremy Charles, Canada's best chef, draws inspiration from humble traditions and transforming the bounty from the land and sea around him.

  • Film
  • D'Arcy Doran

The 24-year-long battle to protect British Columbia’s wilderness

Keep Jumbo Wild — The Ktunaxa First Nation, conservationists and backcountry skiers have joined the fight against the Jumbo Glacier Resort, which threatens an area where the land is wild and skiing is a way of life.

  • Film
  • HUCK HQ

How Michelle Pezel turned her Vancouver store into a skate mecca

Huck x Levi's Skateboarding: Antisocial — The unstoppable Michelle Pezel shows us how a skateshop can bring a community together, in one of the stories we found creating our annual Skateboarding Special, in collaboration with Levi's Skateboarding.

  • Film
  • HUCK HQ

Destroyer’s Dan Bejar on longevity and the curse of the hype machine

Poison Season — Dan Bejar explains how he’s steered his ramshackle, free-flowing collective Destroyer through two decades with no hit singles and no major awards.

  • Music
  • George Kafka

Toronto art rockers Absolutely Free share their influences and inspirations

Things That Inspire Me — Bollywood soundtracks and satirical sculptor Maurizio Cattelan help inspire Absolutely Free’s spectacular live shows.

  • Art
  • Alex King

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