La Dolce Vita at Cosa Nostra Italian food and culture go hand in hand. Spaghetti and Lasagna are as significant as Rafael and Leonardo da Vinci. For Italians, food is not merely a means of survival, it a means of expression, and an opportunity to savour life. Enjoying a meal…

This month the artists in residency will end with a big exhibition on the 27th of August at MacDonald Island Park. One of the four chosen participants is Ruddy Torley Tuneeko. Originally from Namibia but now a resident of Fort McMurray, YMM International talked with him about his journey to…

As the Executive Director of the Centre of Hope - the only daytime drop-in centre for the homeless in Fort McMurray, Stephen Bryant has a desire to talk to people about homelessness...and he has been working endlessly on addressing the issue. “People often say: ‘It is a person’s own fault…

What you never dared to ask but might have thought about the hijab? Backwards, oppressed and fundamentalist: These are some of the stereotypes when it comes to the hijab, the headscarf worn by Muslim women. What do Westerns actually know about it? Most of the time nothing, but Samra Ilyas…

Fort McMurray is My Heaven Fort McMurray is a safe haven and a new home for refugees from around the world. People fleeing from desperate situations come here to find a fresh start and a secure new life. Most of us think of refugees as people fleeing from war torn…

Help Me… I'm Foreign International love. You Canadians have Nickelback , the Boreal Forest and Canadian Bacon. We Germans have Rammstein, the Black Forest and sausages. So we are quite similar aren’t we? I was wrong. He was wrong. We were wrong. We that is Michael and me. Two years…