In Yellowknife, my grandfather cries watching a movie about a mushroom who helped a boy.
HANA SHAFI
Toronto Is Too Expensive
"i stayed long enough to see the park replaced a slide without my name carved underneath"
ANDRÉ ALEXIS
Dull Patch, ON
At the Rebarbative Moose, one drinks Amber Mole and discusses the superiority of Coulson's Hill.
DOMINIQUE BERNIER-CORMIER
Fourteen
At fourteen, swimming for hours before school and boarding a Russian cargo ship.
SHANNON BRAMER
She's the One Who Lost Her Mom
"she’s the one whose mom is mean about the ice-cream truck / and she’s the one whose mom won’t vaccinate"
GWEN BENAWAY
Curiosities
"as if I could feel pretty or if being a woman / was being beautiful, like pretty is something / I have access to in this body."
JOHN KALBFLEISCH
No-No Nudes
A selection of subheadings from No Place More Suitable: Four Centuries of Montreal Stories.
LENEA GRACE
Eulogy
Lenea Grace says a Eulogy for Stan Rogers.
JUDY LEBLANC
Expiration Date
It seems an invasion of privacy to interview a man about his afterlife.
JOSHUA WHITEHEAD
Culturama
Joshua Whitehead brings "authentic" blood pudding to school for Culturama.
THE EDITORS
Traveller on Two Roads
A selection of prints by renowned printmaker Anna Wong.
MERCEDES ENG
Behind the Door
When Mercedes Eng was little her mother would surprise her by opening the door to reveal her father, home from jail.
LEANNA MCLENNAN
Plain English
A woman clips her fingernails, the man beside her wipes mustard from his lip—observations from a year on the bus in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
White Supremacy in the Bush
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on the enduring impact of stereotypes in colonial Canadian literature
CLAUDIA DEY
Lay of the Land
Excerpt from Heartbreaker by Claudia Dey.
RUSSELL THORNTON
At Safeway
A moment of transcendence occurs in the checkout queue at Safeway.
Harlotries, Witchcrafts, Combat Boots
A maternal insult (also referred to as a “yo mama” joke) is frequently used to insult the target by way of their mother.
Tabatha Southey
What Barbie Knew
Tabatha Southey remembers the hardships her Barbies faced as she and her friends made them play Little House on the Prairie.
EDDY WEETALTUK
Culture Clash
Excerpt from From the Tundra to the Trenches by Eddy Weetaltuk.
ALICE MAJOR
Windfall Advisory
Excerpt from Welcome to the Anthropocene by Alice Major.
RANI RIVERA
Retreat
Excerpt from All Violet by poet Rani Rivera. Printed after her death.
GIDIGAA MIGIZI (DOUG WILLIAMS)
The Williams Treaty
Excerpts from Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg: This is our Territory (2018).
CBC
If in Doubt, Cut
A list of instructions to program personnel and film editors to guide the selection and editing of CBC children’s programs with respect to the CBC’s policy on violence in children’s programs.
MARY DI MICHELE
The Montreal Book of the Dead
"This morning I saw my father driving a red/ Toyota wagon with Quebec plates, je me/ souviens, turning the corner at Grand, heading..."
