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Boundary Issues

Have Canadians and Americans become the same people?

Jeremy Kinsman

Who Controls North America?

Today, even the U.S. government is just one of many players

Isabel Studer

The Superpower Next Door

Bully for you — but at what cost?

Krzysztof Pelc
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Janice Colbert

Janice Colbert, a writer and painter divides her time between Toronto and Key West, Florida. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. Her poems have been published in the LRC and Prairie Fire. In late fall 2016 her chapbook is forthcoming with Frog Hollow Press.

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The Bird Caged

January–February 2013
  beside Kate Walbert   What does the bird caged know of the sky? I let the door open on its brass hinge. It doesn’t un-grip its rigid claws from its swing, the bird does not move nor blink its seed eyes. No trick, it could have done it, many times. I shake the cage hard and shake it…