findings

PETER TAYLOR
No Paper in Space
Peggy Thompson
Okay, So If the Seventies, Then What?

Okay, so if the seventies were pierced ears, than what were the eighties and what were the nineties?

Mary Leah de Zwart
Be More Controllive

Suggestions from grade ten students at a high school in BritishColumbia on how the teacher can get the class to pay attention,compiled by the teacher.

Mary Leah de Zwart
Culinary Detention

Responses from students in a grade nine foods class to "Why did I give you detention today?" and/or "How was your behaviour unsafe?"

AMIEL GLADSTONE
That’s Canada

A draft dodger takes a “fishing trip” to Canada and ends up overboard.

KEVIN CONNOLLY
The Cartographer’s Lament

On the solitary vocation of map-making.

A Hat for All Seasons

A cheat sheet for hat sellers, from The Human Side of RetailSelling: A Textbook for Salespeople in Retail Stores and Students ofRetail Salesmanship and Store Organization by Ruth Leigh, published in 1921 by D. Appleton andCompany.

Arts Funding Cuts in B.C. Approach 92%

The cur­rent gov­ern­ment attack on arts fund­ing in British Columbia has pro­voked out­rage and con­cern in com­mu­ni­ties across the province.

MANDY MOORE AND LEANNE PRAIN
Yarn Bombing

Images from Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti

Dolly Watts
Pemmican Balls

From Where People Feast: An Indigenous People’s Cookbook, published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2007.

SEAN HORLOR
Get Yourself Into It!

Youngsters doing jumping jacks,Olympic gold medallists—All across our metroplex

GIL ADAMSON
Charging to the Light

A storyteller travels to Winnipeg on the backs of prehistoric beasts named Maxwell and Minnie.

Magic Time

You will soon be more aware of your growing awareness.

DOUGLAS COUPLAND
Woo Moment

John Doe tells the story of the day he lost his cola virginity, sneaking out into the woods to taste Coke and Pepsi.

KATHRYN MOCKLER
Skinheads

Have you ever had a dry scalp and it’s itchy?

ANDREW EMOND
Brave New Landscape

Photographs that highlight the soothing but eerie simplicity of the Canadian suburban landscape.

Happy Life

The secret to happiness is realizing that nobody gives a shit if you read philosophy in your pajamas at six o’clock in the morning.

CATHARINE CHEN
Jughead Jones

Sometimes, sitting across from Archie on those thigh-sticking vinyl seats at Pop’s, Jughead has this feeling.

Ven Begamudre
Old Man

Vishnu Dreams is a novel that combines Hindu mythology with the story of a family. In this excerpt, a boy is poised, terrified, at the edge of a diving board.

COLIN MERRIAM
Sleeping Dogs

Stray dogs napping in Punjab and Rajasthan, India.

DON MARKS
The Legend of Freddie Sasakamoose

The man who would emerge from Canada’s infamous Residential School system to become the first First Nations player in the NHL.

KATE BRAID
Did I Sing?

Rhythms and rhymes in homage to the brilliance of Glenn Gould.

ANDREW NIKIFORUK
Let Us Begin

Declaration of a Political Emergency. The state of the tar sands in Northern Alberta.

J.R. CARPENTER
Words Dogs Know

Phantasmagoria, performance, corruption and many more.