The Rottweiler
The Graceville Motel stands thirty feet from the town’s main road. Its lime-green siding has faded. Swirls of dirt frame the white doors. I can see marks where someone attempted to wash them; whoever it was never bothered with the edges of the doors. It’s like they scrubbed down the middle and said, “Close […] More »
Is it fair to want my partner to learn my first language?
Love and communication in a biracial relationship
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A Host of Cells
My daughter, India, died five years ago, when she was 16. Although she’s dead, her cells live on in a research laboratory at the University of Ottawa. I can’t bring myself to go there.
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Will Our Data Lead Us To The Virtual Afterlife?
As Canadians live longer and amass more personal data than ever, we could be getting closer to living forever in bot form
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You Are In The Process Of Dying
Last year I sat by my wife's side and held her hand as she died on the day of her choosing
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We need to stop pretending there’s no Islamophobia crisis in Canada
How do Canadians view themselves through the lens of national massacres?
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We’re here. We’re queer. Now what?
For LGBTQ refugees, Canada is no land of unicorns and rainbows
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Gene machine
I spit in a tube and uncovered secrets about my family long held under wraps by the government. My case for consumer DNA kits
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The New Nancy Drew
The girl detective Nancy has always been inspirational and questionable—until her newest incarnation
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Smoke Signals
With increasingly frequent wildfires creating chaos in the US and Canada comes the need for communities to rebuild. A look into that process and what it means for the people and natural environment affected.
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Deciding Factors
The decision of whether or not to bring children into the world is always complex. Here, identity, ancestry, age, capitalism and climate change are all part of the considerations.
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Nookaa starts her new job in seventeen minutes and still decides to take some time deciding what androgynous items of clothing to wear, responds to a text from her partner to “talk” later that day, and also reminds White Boy #326 where the closest movie rental place is, right on Commercial Drive. In the cab […] More »Poem in Which Ahad Appears
The house behind mine caught fire I saw petal scrap ashes floating down first and thought it was a wild fire thickening the sky like the last summer I was on a bench with a boy I didn’t want to date couldn’t say no because he had a body I had the time it takes […] More »Hissing of Summer Lawns
Wheat fields in the wind pulsing with air welling up inside a glittering of green on summerland grassland, the hissingof August lawns as air snakes out of blades like auto lot inflatables, one-legged air-dancers for a yawning audience, gazilions vying for envy, sashay stirring up sway in tinsel tassel anemones, an aquatic shimmering of chartreuse […] More »
Glenn Copeland’s Musical Rebirth
From his time studying classical music in the 1960s to decades spent writing songs and performing on CBC’s Mr. Dressup, Glenn Copeland has long been interested in looking inwards to “the core of one’s own being.” Seventy-five and a practicing Buddhist, he has never been too concerned with signifiers of success or following musical trends. […] More »
