A set of turnstiles Each more elaborate Than the last Frisk and shrink us Down to the smudgy gray Passport photos we’ll resemble When we’re dead. Though we clutch our Swaddled possessions, In the hushed caverns of this map-less place : We have Nothing to declare. Duty free: Awash in spirits Some to drink, others…
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Karyn Pugliese, member of Pikwakanagan First Nation, is a seasoned journalist best known for hard-hitting reporting at the National Observer, Canadaland, and APTN. So it’s refreshing to hear her delighted cackle as she unpacks some of the absurdities that are baked into Canadian law. In Canada’s historical narrative of the march from British colony to…
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I went to Dorothy Cutting’s ‘funeral’ On my electric bike Because she would have approved of that. Visiting her little seaside house – for the last time? – A place once Packed with books and collected artworks and protest signs and flowers from the garden and friends and happy chaos, Prowled by a bengal cat…
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