Tabatha Southey remembers the hardships her Barbies faced as she and her friends made them play Little House on the Prairie.

Excerpts from Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg: This is our Territory (2018).

A list of instructions to program personnel and film editors to guide the selection and editing of CBC children’s programs with respect to the CBC’s policy on violence in children’s programs.

"At 8:30 p.m. a coyote was heading east on Charles Street and Commercial Drive."Selected texts of the Coyote Sightings and Attack Log Text Alert Group.

A poem by James Witwicki and 5-year-old Anna from From the Heart of It All: Ten Years of Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

Excerpt from All Violet by poet Rani Rivera. Printed after her death.

Spotting a Russian Prime Minister and a fallen Soviet movie star in the grocery aisle.

Excerpt from Uncertain Weights and Measures by Jocelyn Parr. Published by Goose Lane in 2017.

Excerpt from Kaie Kellough's "ode to Montréal" Accordéon.

Excerpt from From the Tundra to the Trenches by Eddy Weetaltuk.

Excerpt from The Muslimah Who Fell to Earth by Munirah MacLean.

Poem excerpted from Micheline Maylor's Little Wildheart (2017).

Excerpt from I Don’t Want to Know Anyone Too Well by Norman Levine.

Excerpt from Annie Muktuk and Other Stories.

Steven W. Beattie tells us how he really feels about Canadian literature.

Short stories from "I Never Talk About It" by Véronique Côté and Steve Gagnon.

Suspense at airport stopover. I walk back and forth to exercise. Cannot find a Timmies. Wonder what country I am in. Just Toronto.

"This morning I saw my father driving a red/ Toyota wagon with Quebec plates, je me/ souviens, turning the corner at Grand, heading..."

"Me and fourteen other girls. After months, years, of sawdust/ and ground acorn coffee, rancid margarine and biscuits/ that required a chisel, it almost seemed a gift."

Pamela Newton offers a daily peek into the vast history of the charming East Coast island.

A selection of letters from "A Queer Love Story: The Letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout", edited by Marilyn R. Schuster.

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.

“You Never Looked So Simulating,” a poem presented at the In(ter)ventions conference in Banff, February 2010, and first published in West Coast LINE.