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God of Poetry

Apollo was about more than going to the moon

Climbing Down from Vimy Ridge

One of Canada’s leading historians makes a different case for military success

The Envoy

Mark Carney has a plan

Lisa Gregoire

Lisa Gregoire has written for newspapers and magazines for thirty-five years. She has twice won gold at the National Magazine Awards.

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Lisa Gregoire

What She Wrote

A mother’s personal archive May 2026
My mother married my dad when she was twenty-three. Instead of a white dress, she wore a smart skirt and jacket, corsage, white gloves, warm smile, her wavy hair carefully set. The wedding photo, shot at a long-gone studio, hangs on my bedroom wall. In it, my father is twenty-one. Handsome in a suit, with shiny shoes and skinny…