Me, My Dad, and His Old Clothes
After my parents divorced, I began to wear my dad’s cast-off suits and loafers everywhere
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The Toxic Sexism of Catholic All-Boys Schools
St. Michael’s College School made headlines after some of its football players were accused of brutally attacking another student. Where do so-called good boys get such bad ideas?
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Fearing Those Who Flee Trump’s America
Canada is using the Safe Third Country Agreement to systematically turn back asylum seekers
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The Rise and Fall of Toronto’s Classiest Con Man
James Regan swindled his way through the city’s monied classes. The problem was, he seemed to believe his own lies
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Is Anne Carson the First Poet with More Fans than Readers?
Her abstruse, down-tuned music is the soundtrack to poetry’s institutionalized life in the twenty-first century
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Poetry Slam
Cowardly critics and bad art—a Canadian codependency
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A Way of Happening
An interview with Amanda Jernigan, judge of the third annual Walrus Poetry Prize
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Splitting Heirs
The royal baby and our troubled Constitution
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The Scarborough Bluffs
You will not find me among the women of the earth, Their hair wound up in buns upon their heads, And goosebumped legs bridged above the bath— I am not …
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