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God of Poetry

Apollo was about more than going to the moon

Climbing Down from Vimy Ridge

One of Canada’s leading historians makes a different case for military success

Plate Appearances

José Bautista and the Temple of Dome

Byron Armstrong

Byron Armstrong earned a Canadian Ethnic Media Award in 2022. He lives in Toronto.

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Stormy Weather

H. Nigel Thomas on family and place April 2025
Sometimes a story’s setting is its most powerful character. This is true of the Caribbean in H. Nigel Thomas’s A Different Hurricane. In it, golden sands and sparkling waters provide a backdrop for a society strained by prejudice and the lingering effects of colonization. The titular tempest is cultural; the storm is one of social unrest and…