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Beaubear's Island, New Brunswick, photo by James M. FisherIn this issue:The View from Stansberry Lookout by James Gaitis (Fiction)Unsettling Time by Bretton Loney (Fiction)Tell It To The Water by Donna Morrissey (Non-Fiction)Late-Stage Capitalism? (Non-Fi

Catherine Walker taught community health, including Nightingale Theory, at the baccalaureate level at Ryerson University. She was Practice Placement Manager responsible for the practicum education for 2000 nursing students from baccalaureate to masters nu

Neighbouring countries the Confederation and the Republic have what can be described as an uneasy relationship at best, which is being exacerbated by rampant wildfires that threaten their border. Sound familiar? You would be excused for thinking that Amer

After falling and hitting his head, Saint Mary's University lecturer Ryan Treiber is transported to 1749 Halifax. With no idea how to get back, Ryan not only has to adapt to his new surroundings, but takes it upon himself to solve a murder.These are event

Edited by Greg Albo and Stephen Maher, Late Stage Capitalism? Accumulation in the Ruins assesses the current state of capitalism through a socialist lens. Many of the chapters are written by professors of economics, political science, or other disciplines

Whether you've seen the 1933 movie King Kong or not, you know its iconic image: frail, pretty Faye Wray screaming in the monster's grip.Iconic-and predictable. Even in 1933 the damsel-in-distress thing was clichéd.Well, that particular cliché has met its

Canadian writer living slowly in Quebec producing haiku, reviews and irregular poems. Publisher and poet. Editor aka text therapist. www.pearlpirie.com

i saved a seat for you is an intense collection is by a new writer, Lauren Frederick. It is marked by page-centred poems but let that not mislead you. It is harpoons to the heart, the opposite of the Bon Jovi song-it gives love a good name. It's message i

Donna Morrissey's recent book, Tell It to the Water, her eighth, is identified as a memoir about her childhood and family in a small west coast Newfoundland community. Donna and her five siblings had a close but somewhat tumultuous upbringing, by a mother

Montreal's Jazz MilieuGabrielle Roy and Oscar Peterson listened to the same music in Montreal during the Second World War. Although Roy's first novel The Tin Flute (1945) precedes Peterson's composition "Place St. Henri" by twenty years, some of that jazz