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Fiction: “What I Would Say” by Jessica Westhead
I haven’t been to a party before where they served pie, have you? But I guess that’s a silly question because of course you’d know the hosts, so you’ve probably— Anyway, it’s very good pie. It takes creative people to come up with a snack idea like that. I said to Appollonia—that’s who I came with—“Would you have thought of giving out pie?” And she said, “Nope.” But of course Appollonia is not creative like you and me. Which she wouldn’t mind me saying, by the way. We all have our strengths and weaknesses. Now me, I’ve got my chapbook. But put an equation in front of me and do you think I’d know how to solve it? Give me a break! I am a words person whereas Appollonia is a numbers person, which is a skill so many of us writers and publishers haven’t mastered.... [More >>]
Review: The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill
In The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book, Vancouver-based writer Gord Hill blends his visual and literary talents to tell the story of aboriginal life since the arrival of Europeans in the Western Hemisphere... [More >>]
Counting the Vancouver 2010 Olympics’ broken promises
One of Pivot Legal Society's Red Tents on the streets of Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Olympics. Photo by The Blackbird. The five-ring circus has rolled out of Vancouver, but the tents are still... [More >>]
Interview: Globe and Mail Afghanistan correspondent Graeme Smith
Globe and Mail Afghanistan correspondent Graeme Smith. Illustration by Peter Mitchell. Calgary Herald reporter Michelle Lang was the first Canadian journalist to die covering the conflict in Afghanistan.... [More >>]
Canadian military quietly preps for longer Afghan mission
Canada’s troops are supposed to leave Afghanistan in 2011. As the conflict drags on and the death toll rises, the Canadian government and military plan for the next decade of war—this time with... [More >>]
This Magazine’s podcast: March 8, 2010
Listen to This #007: Liz Worth, author of Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History of Punk in Toronto and Beyond
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