Can You Map a City through Verse?
No one paints a place like a poet. Here are three to guide us through Vancouver.
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No one paints a place like a poet. Here are three to guide us through Vancouver.
Guelph's Hillside Festival is heading back indoors for another edition of Hillside Inside, as the event continues to practice COVID safety w...
Even during COVID, Vancouver is brimming with poetry if you know where to look.
Article content During my four years of research and interviews with elders for my book Medicine Unbundled: A Journey Through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care, I heard many stories about lost and missing children, parents wondering what, or who, had killed their children or relatives and where they might be buried. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Gary Geddes: Listen to the voices Back to video The stories from KIRS graduates were some of the most disturbing: beatings, sexual abuse, failed escapes that ended in drowning...
As a lifelong claustrophobe, this was the worst part until I found myself sharing that confined space with three young people wearing no masks and determined to sing their way to possible incarceration. I arrived home the same evening no worse for wear, or war, thanks to my wife who followed the paddy wagon back to Lake Cowichan police station, where my offence was put on file and I was allowed to leave with no charge. CBC news reported an “elderly gentleman” (no name) having been arrested and taken away by police. At least they were right about “elderly,” as I will be 81 in June.