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The United Nations Train Station Museum
Larissa Lai for Sharron Proulx-Turner May 29, 2016 playing with "why crow knows weendigo's not all he's cracked up to be" from What The Auntys Say down at the united nations train…
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Justice Aesthetics: Paul Yee on A Superior Man
For this piece, Larissa threw three terms at me: justice, aesthetics, and writerly insurgency. I liked the last term best because its synonyms are brave: dissent, insurrection, rev…
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Ken Belford: Slick Reckoning
Ken Belford was born in DeBolt, Alberta, and grew up in East Vancouver. As a young man, he worked on the log booms of the BC lower mainland, and as a lumber piler in the sawmill ca…
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Fred Wah: River Hunger, Home to E(ar)th
Fred Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in 1939 and grew up in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia. He presently lives in Vancouver. His book of prose-poems, Wait…
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Sharron Proulx-Turner: the mad house
the mad house 1 indigenous natural law: never give up. – jimmy o'chiese drove through an early morning sundog. this was a friday. I was heading up sarcee hill, reaching for my sung…
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Paper Hearts: A Round Table on Gender and Power in Contemporary Canadian Writing Community
Canadian writing community has recently been shaken by troubling narratives of power abuse across gender lines—narratives that actually have been accruing for some time, reverberat…
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