Coyote Heading West
"At 8:30 p.m. a coyote was heading east on Charles Street and Commercial Drive." Selected texts of the Coyote Sightings and Attack Log Text Alert Group.
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Excerpt from Uncertain Weights and Measures by Jocelyn Parr. Published by Goose Lane in 2017.
View ArticleIf 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.
View ArticleHarlotries, 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.
View ArticleChicken. Chicken. Pigeon. Crow.
A poem by James Witwicki and 5-year-old Anna from From the Heart of It All: Ten Years of Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
View ArticleThe Williams Treaty
Excerpts from Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg: This is our Territory (2018).
View ArticleWhat Barbie Knew
Tabatha Southey remembers the hardships her Barbies faced as she and her friends made them play Little House on the Prairie.
View ArticleBehind the Door
When Mercedes Eng was little her mother would surprise her by opening the door to reveal her father, home from jail.
View ArticlePlain 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.
View ArticleWhite Supremacy in the Bush
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on the enduring impact of stereotypes in colonial Canadian literature
View ArticleToronto Is Too Expensive
"i stayed long enough to see the park replaced a slide without my name carved underneath"
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