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A man and woman walk down an empty street with houses on either side and the ocean behind them

Fiction / July/August 2022

The Click

August 5, 2022 - by Alex MacAskill

Sometimes we look younger than we are, sometimes much older, depending on how we’ve chosen to live with what we’ve seen

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A man bikes past the brick facade of Toronto's Massey Hall building

Fiction / July/August 2022

Saving Robert Zimmerman

August 5, 2022August 15, 2022 - by Alex MacAskill

They saved Bob Dylan. I know, because I was there

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Two men, one white and one Black, sit on a couch watching a basketball game on TV

Fiction / July/August 2022

Bro

July 11, 2022July 13, 2022 - by Alex MacAskill

When he tried to visualize the kind of Black friend he wanted, he could come up with only minor variations of Bro

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Illustration of a robed wizard, with long grey hair and a pointed hat, facing away from the viewer and standing in front of a long, twisting path that is blocked by a fiery head of a monster.

Arts & Culture / September/October 2020

How The Lord of the Rings Made Me a Better Parent

August 19, 2020October 19, 2020 - by Alex MacAskill

Tolkien’s trilogy teaches us how to stay hopeful in the face of overwhelming odds

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