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Memoir

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Memoir

My Misspent Youth

June 2, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Edward Hertrich

A raw account of growing up with drugs and crime in Toronto’s Regent Park

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children on crutches playing in field
June 2015 / Memoir

When Polio Walked the Earth

May 27, 2015April 11, 2020 - by Peter Kavanagh

Notes on a forgotten disease

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Photograph of Emily Urquhart
Memoir

They Call Him a Ghost

April 1, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Emily Urquhart

Chapter five of the author’s new book, Beyond the Pale

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Woman holding dead flowers
March 2015 / Memoir

After Two Decades on Antidepressants, Who Am I?

February 19, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Emily Landau

I was diagnosed with a mental illness at age eleven and joined one of the first generations to grow up on prescription pills

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Photograph by Kyle Carsten Wyatt
Memoir

Iqaluit Pastoral

December 19, 2014January 11, 2024 - by Kyle Carsten Wyatt

Dogsledding north of the tree line

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Photograph courtesy of Claire Mowat and English Heritage/Aerofilms Collection
December 2014 / Memoir

Lost in the Barrens

November 25, 2014April 11, 2020 - by Farley Mowat

Looking for Newfoundland in England’s West Country

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Illustration by Alëna Skarina
Memoir / November 2014

Giving Up the Ghost

October 22, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Lynn Cunningham

When it comes to quitting smoking, you’re on your own

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Person in a field looking at a town and the lake behind it
Memoir

Home Lands

February 20, 2014July 4, 2024 - by Julien Russell Brunet

A photographer traces his Mennonite roots from the Netherlands through Siberia

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Illustration by Mark Cabuena
December 2013 / Memoir

New to Me

November 26, 2013May 28, 2025 - by Napatsi Folger

A daughter’s return to Iqaluit

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Photograph by Fabrice Strippoli
December 2013 / Memoir

When Paul Bernardo Stalked My Neighbourhood

November 11, 2013May 27, 2022 - by Stacey May Fowles

What it was like to grow up in a community that lived in fear of the Scarborough Rapist

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