During a heatwave in 2021, Angie Staines went out looking for her adult son, who she calls B. As she searched the streets of downtown Edmonton, Staines saw a desperation shed never witnessed before. This pushed her to create 4B harm reduction society, a group of outreach workers who are practicing what they call radical acceptance. CBC's Tanara McLean walks the streets of downtown Edmonton with a mom intent on keeping her son, and others, alive during a drug crisis.

Tanara McLean was on the ground at Sacred Heart of the First Peoples, where Pope Francis met congregation members and survivors of Canada's devastating residential school system. In 1991 the church was the first in the country to be designated a national parish for First Nations, Mtis and Inuit people.

In a city that once called itself the city of champions for its former sporting glory, Edmonton is becoming known for being the black-billed magpie capital of Canada. A place where magpies are like religion and politics; if you bring it up, there will certainly be a debate.

15-year-old Skyla Hart wants people to think more deeply about Canada's national anthem and consider how colonial symbols impact the lives of Indigenous people.

After hitting a wall and crying out to the universe for help, Muskoday First Nation member Dawn Deguire used a chance phone call to help launch the Saskatchewan Indigenous Yoga Association.