A 9-year-old painting prodigy and more arts stories you might have missed

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These are the week's can't-miss stories:

9-year-old N.W.T. artist follows father's footsteps, one brush stroke at a time (CBC North)

We're starry-eyed for these star paintings. Joshua Wedzin captures the northern lights on canvas with a deftness far beyond his age — but then again, he learned from the best. Wedzin has been watching his father, well-known Tlicho artist James Wedzin, work for years, so it was only a matter of time before he picked up a brush himself. Now the duo paints together, with James teaching Joshua not just about techniques but about getting to the heart of art-making. "I tell my son often being an artist is really important," James says. "Artists have a story to tell without speaking."

Shame and Prejudice art exhibit looks at '150 years of Indigenous experience' in Canada (CBC Indigenous)

Acclaimed Cree artist Kent Monkman is ready for a more honest Canadian history. With the country turning 150 this year, you won't find Monkman eating cake or wearing a party hat — instead, his new exhibit Shame and Prejudice is examining the last 150 years of Canadian mistreatment of Indigenous people. It's not all doom and gloom, though: the exhibit is ultimately a celebration of his peoples' resilience in the hopes that acknowledging our history's darker moments will help us build a future of reconciliation.

Late Toronto teen's life with cancer coming to big screen, starring her real-life best friend (CBC Toronto)

Carley Allison wasn't your average teenager. After being diagnosed with a rare (one in 3.5 billion) form of sarcoma at 17, she used her cancer battle to inspire thousands of other young people across the world through her social media pages and blog — and now her story is on the big screen. The full-length feature film, Kiss and Cry, stars Allison's real-life best friend Sarah Fischer, who jumped at the opportunity to immortalize her friend through film. We're not crying, you're crying.

Colonization Road: a journey through Canada's relationship with Indigenous Peoples (Unreserved)

Much has been said about Canada's road to reconciliation — so people are sometimes surprised to learn the truth behind a series of roads headed in the opposite direction. Across the country, streets bearing the name "Colonization Road" still exist today, relics of policies like the Public Lands Act. So how did these roads come to be — and why are they still here? That's the question at the heart of a new documentary from director Michelle St. John, who joined Unreserved to chat about the film and fill Canadian listeners in on a history they may not realize.

'She turned the world on with her smile': Carl Reiner remembers Mary Tyler Moore (As It Happens)

The world lost an icon last week. Mary Tyler Moore passed away on January 25th — and as As It Happens puts it, "the outpouring of admiration and grief was immediate and overwhelming." While television lovers across the globe shared their fond memories of a woman who was nothing short of a TV revolutionary, As It Happens spoke with someone who played a crucial role in helping Moore land a crucial role: Carl Reiner, who first cast her in The Dick Van Dyke Show. Reiner still remembers her audition — and thanks to him, all of us will always remember her, too.

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