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On a poet’s tarnished legacy, the housing crisis, and Quebec’s rebellious opposition leader

How educators are teaching the poetry of the man who oversaw residential schools

Federico Lombardi delivers a concise account about Pope Francis' journey to Canada's First Nations and the residential schools tragedy

Residents in Pointe-Claire say theyre saddened and dismayed to see trees have been cut down in the Fairview Forest, just two months after the area was placed in a zoning freeze -- a freeze that prevents Cadillac Fairview from moving forward with development plans.

Hello everyone in the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club. My name is Andrea Elise and I live in Amarillo, Texas.I would like to recommend two non-fiction books for summer reading. The books are by the same author, Mark Abley, and they explore different aspects of the same topic: language.

While poetry may have next to no cultural capital in Canada today, poets continue to aspire to “careers” in the conventional sense. And why not? It’s to poetry that a

Biblioasis’s new series tries to incite debate and fill a hole in the publishing landscape

Read book reviews on the newest releases and recommended reads. StarPhoenix covers stories on local, national and international authors.

Article content Joel Yanofsky, an award-winning author, literary journalist and teacher described by friend and former colleague Mark Abley as “the heart and soul of the English-language literary community in Montreal,” has died. The cause was cancer. He was 65. The Montreal native, who grew up in the Laval suburb of Chomedey, taught many writers and aspiring writers and journalists through the Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF), where he led writing workshops for more than 20 years, and at...