Hello from guest contributor, Carley Gloade

Throughout my life, I have always been active, loved playing sports, and strived to be a competitor in everything I did. I played volleyball for 22 years and won multiple Nova Scotia championships.

When I was young, I took for granted the life lessons sport was teaching me – like how to lose gracefully, how to win humbly, and most importantly, how to have a strong work ethic.  

Sport made me aware of the importance of teamwork and hard work, even when I did not fully understand those concepts — or that sport was shaping the person I would become.

Carley's pick:

• Listen: Mi'kmaw lexicon expands with sports names for North American Indigenous Games - Team of language experts come up with new terms for sports, like badminton and volleyball.

Decades later, a residential school survivor still reflects on those who vanished

Warning: This story includes details of abuse.

For much of her adult life, people told Debbie Paul she was a "survivor." She always wondered, what did she survive? What does that even mean? She never understood.

Two years ago she had a revelation following the discovery of 215 suspected unmarked graves found at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia.

"When that news hit of 215 unmarked graves, that's when it came to me that that's what I survived," she said in a recent interview. 

Elliot Page couldn't imagine telling his own story — here's why he's sharing it now

In a Q interview, the Canadian actor opens up about his new memoir, Pageboy.

When he was 20, Elliot Page became the fourth-youngest person to be nominated for the best actress Oscar for his role in Juno, a film about a young woman facing the decision of what to do about an unplanned pregnancy.

But Page couldn't enjoy the feeling of reaching a major career milestone because he was facing a deep inner struggle.

Check, mate! Weekly chess games creating community connections in Grand Falls-Windsor

The game of chess is bringing people together in Grand Falls-Windsor, N.L., thanks to a new program from the Association for New Canadians.

Twice a week, the association hosts "Chess and Chat," bringing out young and old for a game or two.

Ghazi Alhasoun and his eight-year-old son, Ouws Alhasoun, are regulars at the sessions. In fact, it was Ghazi Alhasoun who had the idea for it.

Inspired at age of 10 in Sarajevo, P.E.I.-based architect recognized by her peers

Silva Stojak's love for architecture started early.  When she was 10 years old, her father took her to a library in the Bosnia and Herzegovina capital Sarajevo, where she found some photography magazines. 

"I was sitting on the floor just going through these magazine and I actually remember every photograph — because first of all, it was good quality, glossy, nice. You know, in communist Yugoslavia we didn't have anything like that," she said. 

From Egypt to Marystown: Married dentists detail building their dreams together

A love of dentistry is at the centre of this love story, which propelled a couple in their 30s from Egpyt to pursue adventure and a bigger dream in Canada — one that saw them ultimately lay down roots in Marystown, Newfoundland.  

This teen has never had a birthday party. So his dad is throwing one, and inviting kids like him

A father in Dartmouth, N.S., will be hosting an inclusive surprise birthday party for his teenage son next month, and has extended an open invitation to other children on the autism spectrum.

Rob Bird said his son, Evan, has never had a birthday party before — and has never been invited to one — because he has autism and struggles to understand facial expressions and social cues. This makes it difficult for him to make friends, Bird said.

Meet trail-blazing twins at the cutting edge of Indigenous storytelling

Twin brothers from Pabineau First Nation are each forging paths as contemporary storytellers and are attracting growing followings as media personalities in the Indigenous community and beyond.

Tristan Grant is a successful hip-hop artist known as Wolf Castle and a music columnist for CBC Radio in New Brunswick, and is soon to be temporary host of the CBC national radio program Reclaimed, which features Indigenous music. 

His twin brother, Chris, is a visual artist and animator who creates videos about his thoughts and experiences with schizoaffective disorder for a TikTok audience now numbering about 1.5 million.

Why planting black ash trees is so important for P.E.I. and the Mi'kmaq

Charlottetown Rural High School students took a field trip behind their school Wednesday to make a mark on P.E.I.'s ecological and cultural landscape.

The students were planting black ash trees. Once prominent on P.E.I., there are likely only a few hundred left across the entire province.

Innu Nation celebrates record number of Grade 12 graduates

Mamu Tshishkutamashutau Innu Education marked a new record this year after decades of work.

It's celebrating 34 graduates from Innu Nation this Spring — a record for the division after formally taking over education in Innu lands in 2009. 

When the churches and provincial government ran the education system from the late 1960s to 2008, said Mamu Tshishkutamashutau CEO Kanani Davis, there were fewer graduates over that entire time period than there were this year alone. 

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