March/April 2025

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March/April 2025

Do Journalists Traffic in Duplicity?

May 23, 2025May 29, 2025 - by Carmine Starnino

Writers can bring clarity to a complicated situation without giving up their independence—or empathy

Letters / March/April 2025

Letters to the Editor: March/April 2025

May 21, 2025May 21, 2025 - by Readers

Family histories, fantasies, and a bad fit

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March/April 2025 / Poetry

Leaving

May 15, 2025May 14, 2025 - by Pierre Nepveu

the driver is waiting for me to come out, / for me to open the door and sit

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Arts & Culture / March/April 2025

My Guilty Pleasure: The Peace of a Long Commute

April 18, 2025April 18, 2025 - by Carine Abouseif

There are no dishes to put away, no tiny toddler socks to match, and no family calendar to organize

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March/April 2025 / Poetry

Darlings

April 10, 2025April 10, 2025 - by Sue Sinclair

They’re tall, they’re overdressed

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March/April 2025 / Poetry

March on the St. Lawrence

April 3, 2025April 3, 2025 - by Nyla Matuk

All night the ice cutter and a wandering ship / dispersed local terrazzo marble like bachelors at a stag

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Fiction / March/April 2025

Forest Hill Gothic

March 13, 2025March 12, 2025 - by Cassidy McFadzean

I watched as a wrinkled hand reached out of the basement window

Books / March/April 2025

Can Rayne Fisher-Quann Shift from Internet Princess to Bestselling Author?

February 5, 2025February 20, 2025 - by Ariella Garmaise

The publishing industry is hinging its hopes on a twenty-three-year-old with a Substack and a devout following. Can she deliver?

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Current Affairs / March/April 2025

“Guaranteed Jobs” That Don’t Exist: The Dark World of Immigration Consultants

January 29, 2025January 29, 2025 - by Adnan R. Khan

Canada has an insatiable demand for cheap labour. Workers are being lured here with schemes and lies

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March/April 2025 / Memoir

Nazi Persecution Scattered My Family. A Lost Archive Brought Us Together

January 27, 2025January 28, 2025 - by Timothy Taylor

How 10,000 pages of documents sent me on a journey through Germany’s dark past

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