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Lay It Down

People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.

Out Around the Bay

When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.

It's My Funeral

In a secular age, the most meaningful memorials are the ones we design ourselves, reflecting the lives we've lived. And in a secular age, the most significant memorials bring peace to the people still living—the people who knew us best when we were still alive.

How Poetry is and isn't Like an Hallucination

In his new book, Oliver Sacks describes a poet who began experiencing vivid hallucinations as she went blind late in life, and put those visions to use in her work. Which raises a question: what's the difference between dream and hallucination, the poetic vision and figment of imagination?

The West Versus the Rest

Current debates over pipeline routes, oil sands development and whether Canada is suffering from "Dutch Disease" are just the latest manifestations of a long-running conflict that has been around since the western provinces joined Confederation. Today's politicians could do well to learn from history.