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Claim Game

The high stakes of fraudulent identity

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

The Canadian Conversation

A Polish journalist’s perspective on residential schools

Isabel Huggan

Isabel Huggan is an award-winning writer, now based in Orillia, Ontario.

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Isabel Huggan

The Portrait of a Reader

On a first-name basis October 2024
In retrospect, a clue to what lay ahead occurred at the Orillia Public Library, when the helpful librarian went down to the basement stacks and brought up three books that, though long in the collection, had never been opened. Clearly, Henry James’s reputation for ornate prose had kept him unread for decades in this little Ontario town — home of Stephen…

Gift

A poem. November 2022

Within These Walls

Hidden stories from the prairies April 2020
When is a house not just a house? As a literary device, the house is often employed as an engine to drive a narrative or to generate a larger story outside its walls. Novels such as Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie and Charles Dickens’s Bleak House, as well as memoirs like Plum Johnson’s They Left Us Everything and Michael Pollan’s A Place of My Own