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  • Welcome to the Great White North
    Welcome to the Great White North
    August 25, 2017

    Welcome to the Great White North

    A lifelong Torontonian, I left my hometown several years ago for the Far North. I watched Toronto transform from a big city with the heart of a small town to an enormous city that seemed heartless. I ...

  • Gwaandak
    Gwaandak
    August 02, 2017

    Gwaandak

    This started off as a straightforward article about Gwaandak Theatre, Yukon’s only Indigenous theatre company. But something went wrong. Or right.I wanted to feature Gwaandak’s production, Map of ...

  • Tips from a Festival Director
    Tips from a Festival Director
    May 08, 2017

    Tips from a Festival Director

    One of the surprising things to happen when I moved to Yukon was that I became director of an annual writers’ conference. As part of my role, I secure authors, negotiating their fees, even signing their ...

  • Poetry in Yukon
    Poetry in Yukon
    April 13, 2017

    Poetry in Yukon

    “The next unit is Poetry.”Was there any phrase that could make me less popular as a teacher?I was teaching Grade 8 English in Dawson City, an historic Gold Rush town of 1,500, just 5 hours from the ...

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