On the cusp of a life-changing procedure, Jane Rideau Demuth makes peace with the paths that brought her here, and the obstacles she had to wrestle with along the way.
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The Great Cannabis Experiment: Ian Brown on Growing Your Own Weed
Weed? Turns out it’s tricky to grow your own.
Posted inCrime, Culture, Current Events, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Canada’s Breeding Ground for Hate
How Canada’s new, educated, organized far-right has been using a video game app to try to influence mainstream politics and create a white ethno-state.
Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
She Kept Every Letter
“It is so essential to morale that army and navy officers of the highest rank list mail almost on a level with munitions and food.”
Posted inQuote Posts, Uncategorized
The Voyeur of Queen and Spadina
But I’m a creep / I’m a weirdo / What the hell am I doing here? / I don’t belong here
Posted inNonfiction, Story
Finding True North
Thousands of Haitians who fled the United States on foot last summer have started very different lives in Canada.
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Story
We Stand on Guard for Bieber
How Canadian is Justin Bieber? His hometown’s “Steps to Stardom” exhibit provides some answers.
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In Canada, Truth and Reconciliation Starts with Educating Ourselves and Our Kids
Canadians need to learn the truth — the individual stories of those who attended Residential Schools — before we can ever begin the reconciliation process.
Posted inCrime, Nonfiction, Quotes
How to (Almost) Get Away With Murder
No one twigged that whenever a member of the Harrison family died, it was always just before an important hearing in a bitter child custody battle.
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K.D. Lang Will Indulge Your Craving for “Constant Craving”
K.D. Lang’s seminal album Ingénue is 25 years old. Penelope Green talks to K.D. Lang about how she’s evolved as an artist in the last quarter century.