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Referendum Trudeau

He campaigned in poetry but governed in prose

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Alarm Bells

Fort McMurray and fires hence

Dylan Reid

Dylan Reid edits Spacing magazine in Toronto.

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Dylan Reid

An Old Refrain

The medic who went around in circles November 2022
We shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders fields. — John McCrae The Canadian military doctor John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields” was an instant success when it appeared in Punch magazine in December 1915. It went on to become the most widely published and quoted English poem of the First World…

Richard Florida’s Frankenstein Moment

Why cities belong to the rich June 2017
We live in an electronic age in which it seems almost everything can be done remotely. With email, Skype and collaborative tools in the cloud, we no longer need to share the same physical space in order to pursue much of our work. And globalization, online payments, ubiquitous delivery and endlessly streaming media mean that we can purchase and consume seemingly anything from anywhere without leaving our…