A song of know
In the dark blue future I will quiet. I have no idea about anything.I suppose I’ll know what I know or I can wait— and be really & sunnishly in the knowledge (being whole limber accomplished jazzy...
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screams the advent of written history at those of us who think we’ve never saida word before. At all. When no one listens he curls into a basketball.His bee-loud glade’s a sling of mud, he digs for...
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Illustration by Jeff Kulak1. What on earth did she want from him? From them? Approval? She was embarrassed by how little she knew, or would own, of her own motivations.She was also too hot in her heavy...
View ArticleHousing is a human right
What would happen if housing were enshrined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms? One activist’s inside account of the radical new fight to end homelessnessIn 1996, fresh out of high school,...
View ArticleCrime and punishment
In the late ’90s, the Canadian government debuted what was supposed to be a new, golden era of rehabilitation in women’s prisons. Yet, less than two decades later, the dream has failed. What one former...
View ArticleDot com stone age
Illustration by Matt DaleyWhy the Canadian government needs to hit refresh on its digital strategiesWhen former Public Safety Minister Vic Toews stood in the House of Commons and proclaimed that anyone...
View ArticlePop culture: Every day I’ve hustlin’
Illustration by Dave DonaldThoughts on the creative value of taking a break“MY LIFE IN MONTREAL WAS SO GOOD,” said the songwriter Sean Nicholas Savage in a recent interview for Bad Day magazine. “We...
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Illustration by Dave DonaldThe importance of thinking before you clickOnline media has monetized humanity’s rubbernecking reflex like never before. “Clickbait,” as defined by Urban Dictionary, is an...
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