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To prove my wolfishness, I shucked my skate shoes and went barefoot on the pine needles

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Did you hear that the railway built Canada? That’s probably all you heard

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That is how one shows true love

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The Name of the Game: How Sports Talk Got That Way

It's been reported that my nephew in Ottawa needs to be encouraged to read, but he doesn't need to be encouraged to do sports. With this in mind I ventured into an unfamiliar genre. Sports books seem to come in two flavours—how-to books (which most t

HAL NIEDZVIECKI

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The Archaeologists, Chapter 2: Hal—Thursday, April 10

The Boss lady wants the Wississauga Cable TV Community News team to loosen up, play the field and put on a show—the second installment of Hal Niedzviecki's new novel, The Archaeologists, serialized in Geist and four other Canadian literary magazines.

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Marooned

The heat and the stars, everywhere

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CM Wain

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COVID Cryptid

I'd step onto the boat and watch all my suffering recede into the horizon

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