findings

ANGUS BELL
Cricket Spy

All the evidence suggested Serbian cricket was in tatters.

Gregory Betts
Readme Doc

Gregory Betts uncovers 150 new poems when he crosses out words or letters from Shakespeare's Sonnet 150.

NICHOLAS RUDDOCK
Lost in Canada

Poets in Mexico make words explode in the gut and the chest. Here in Toronto, poets are loners.

Peter Mansbridge
Mansbridge on Mansbridge

I was nineteen and a high-school dropout, and I had just recently left an exciting but relatively unsuccessful stint in the Royal Canadian Navy.

KENNETH SHERMAN
Who Knows You Here?

The sidewalks of Yonge Street were wooden then. I can picture horse buns steaming in the snow . . .

KAREN HOFMANN
Alter Ego

Patsy's daughter Sarah met a woman who had an alter ego named Edna.

YANN MARTEL
Letter to Harper

Yann Martel takes on the literary education of Prime Minister Stephen Harper by sending him a book and a letter every two weeks.

JOHN TERPSTRA
Giants

A few thousand years ago, John Terpstra’s giants doffed their coats and splashed around in newly-melted glacier water. Join them for a stanza or two.

Upon the Conversion of Stephen Harper

With his pyjama pants billowing like tandem windsocks, he cries into the broken sky: Sweet lord, if only you will have me, I will be true this time!

BRAD ROBINSON
Kosmic Baseball

The Granville Grange Zephyrs saw poetry in pop flies.

IGOR RYBAK
Sentenced

And now, a lesson in grammar from the folks at Narwhal Magazine.

NINO RICCI
Five of a Kind

What these tricks tell us, beneath Paul’s casual smile, is to beware: he is a force to be reckoned with.

CITY OF VANCOUVER
Your Trouser Zipper is Open

The Protocol Officer's Guide to Getting Through Awkward Moments.

Protocol for Making Conversation with Dignitaries

During the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games protocol officers can learn the art of protocol, in order to ensure visiting dignitaries enjoy the spectacle that is the Olympics to the fullest that protocol allows.

SONNY ASSU
Branding

Challenging the perception of "Indian" art.

PETER TAYLOR
No Paper in Space
JUSTIN NOBEL
Bowhead Butchering

From Justin Nobel’s photo series Nunavik, Summer 2008. Nobel’s work has appeared in Bay Nature, the Chicago Tribune, Montreal Gazette and Audubon.

Mary Leah de Zwart
Be More Controllive

Suggestions from grade ten students at a high school in BritishColumbia on how the teacher can get the class to pay attention,compiled by the teacher.

Report the Suspicious

Images from "Transit Secure," created for TransLink by Tribal DDB of Vancouver.

J. DAVID HENRY
Jack Pine Fire Strategy

From "The Benefits of Being Burned," a chapter in Canada's Boreal Forest, by J. David Henry (Smithsonian Natural History Series).

Eve Corbel
Little Soldier of Love
Mary Leah de Zwart
Culinary Detention

Responses from students in a grade nine foods class to "Why did I give you detention today?" and/or "How was your behaviour unsafe?"

DON MARKS
The Legend of Freddie Sasakamoose

The man who would emerge from Canada’s infamous Residential School system to become the first First Nations player in the NHL.

MANDY MOORE AND LEANNE PRAIN
Yarn Bombing

Images from Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti