Women Of The Year: 33 Canadians Who Rocked 2017

For shining a much-needed light on the deaths of young Indigenous people: The deeply affecting book Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City came at a crucial moment for a Canada 150–ing nation this year. Toronto Star reporter Tanya Talaga’s in-depth account of the lives of seven teenagers who died in Nishnawbe Aski Nation near Thunder Bay in 2010–2011 drove home the depth of the intergenerational trauma of colonization while calling on all of us to do better. —S.B.