Excerpts from Once a Murderer, published by Wolsak & Wynn in 2008.

I learned most of what I know about being a man from my Uncle Rob. Uncle Rob has never let the fact that I was declared female at birth get in the way of our male bonding, and I’ve always loved him best for it.

Sculptures of rural Canadian life by a Saskatchewan artist.

In 2006, the City of Toronto commissioned [Colin] Partridge, a wood spirit carver, to carve figures into the dying trees in High Park.

Charlie didn’t know anything about Bobby Orr, and Kathy didn’t either, not then. But in 1966, when Bobby started playing for the Boston Bruins, anybody who knew anything about hockey knew he was the Canadian hope that was going to save the Bruins, an

The table of contents from John Scully’s Am I Dead Yet?: 71 Countries, 36 War Zones, 1 Man’s Opinion.

A poem from The Invisibility Exhibit, published by Talonbooks in 2008.

Gravestone epitaphs from The Final Word: the Book of Canadian Epitaphs.

It’s important to get slivers out from under the skin as soon as possible. If a sliver goes too deep it can get into your bloodstream and work its way toward your heart, causing death.

When someone asks you for the truth,for God’s sake, lie. Give them what they want.

A record is a palimpsest, an incestof sound. A drill-bit riding a carouselat midnight.

We were stripping off in the car for a skinny dip and were mostly naked as frogs when another car pulled up and four big guys hopped out. They were Mounties.

We curled up like animals, hot bodiesspooned together on the cement floor—my husband, son, the maid and me.

Expressions that have been ruled unparliamentary during various sittings of the Canadian House of Commons.

Furthermore, let us ponder the fact that Calgary is becoming sophisticated and edgy. Residents have nameslike Aidan, Cody, Ethan, Paige, and Avery, and buy cupcakes from stores that sell only cupcakes, and cheese from stores that sell only cheese.

Gaze direction: The tendency of a lone diner a. to look up in a café or restaurant, and b. to move the eyes horizontally across the view-field while taking a bite of food or drinking from a cup, bottle, or glass.

A lovely story of heroism and children-crushing, to be sure, but is it just another Jumbo-load of Barnum bunkum?

Things found in the Toronto Transit Commission’s Lost and Found.

The ten most looked-up words in Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary 2003-2006.

Geist is proud to present a clip from the World Premiere of a new film by Ivan E. Coyote and Veda Hille. Commissioned for Out On Screen’s new Queer History Project, this is the first in a series of creative partnerships that draw out Vancouver’s forg

A series of narratives and rants written collaboratively in the exquisite corpse form (write a sentence and pass the paper to the next person).

List of objects destroyed by the Vancouver Police Department and the City of Vancouver at the Woodward’s Squat

Daniel Francis recently spoke to Joseph Planta from THECOMMENTARY.ca about his book, Red Light Neon: A History of Vancouver’s Sex Trade (Subway, 2007). Listen here.

Last summer, Vancouver Public Library workers composed Strike Haiku during their 88-day job action.