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Referendum Trudeau

He campaigned in poetry but governed in prose

Jeff Costen

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Naoko Asano

Alarm Bells

Fort McMurray and fires hence

Bob Armstrong
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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer, artist, and scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a member of Alderville First Nation. She is the author of the short-story collections Islands of Decolonial Love and This Accident of Being Lost, a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize in 2017.

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Temporary Spaces of Joy and Freedom

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson in conversation with Dionne Brand June 2018
Decolonization, and the role of art and the imagination in this liberatory enterprise, is at the heart of As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance (University of Minnesota Press), a book published late last year by the Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer, artist, and scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. That idea is also at the centre of this conversation between Simpson and the celebrated…