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Chris Hampton

Chris Hampton has written for the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, and the New York Times, among others.

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You’re Joking

True lies in Canadian art March 2020
I have never really been hoaxed. At least, I don’t think so. I suppose there was Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. And there was the time when my grade 6 teacher told us he had won the lottery and would split his winnings with us. He let that doozy ferment in our ten-year-old brains over morning prayers and “O Canada,” before reminding us it was…