Halloween Style

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Contributed by fashion photographer Lenka lenkalife.com. Kids can enjoy trick-or-treating this year, according to Ontario Public Health guidance. For those of us that wait until the last minute to find a costume, it’s time to visit the Yonge Street Mission’s Double Take Thrift Store on 306 Gerrard St E.  We searched through the store’s  Halloween […]

Live theatre is back!

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Be a part of the audience for the workshop performance of Transit, a play written by Alumnae member, Susan Brown. Is one man’s known universe big enough for the rest of us? October is Islamic History Month, and just in time, there’s a play that examines what happens in smalltown neighborhoods where cultural transformation exposes the […]

The Spoken Word Café and the magical power of WCC workshops

Contributed by María Cristina Sabourin-Jovel (Queen María) September 21st 2021, lights on! Last mic check! The Spoken Word Café was live on Zoom. Nerves, expectations, butterflies! Writers from the eight groups that the WCC runs in Ottawa delighted the audience with their brave creations. Some spoke about the intergenerational trauma of residential schools; others discussed […]

STAR SEEDS

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Contributed by Chris McNutt, Host of the McNuttiest Dimension Posdcast Calling all starseeds, come in starseeds. The Galactic Federation would like to remind you of your mission here on earth. Uh, sure buddy. What the hell’s a starseed? Well you are human and I’m human and all the other humans you know are also human […]

FAIRY CREEK

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Contributed by Avery Florence — After introductions, the second question often asked upon arrival at Fairy Creek is “Are you arrestable?”  These questions, always asked with a smile, are your welcome package. They are your initiation to a world of resistance, community, decentralized leadership to a suffocating reality of police presence, and to the certainty of […]

Lions’ Gate Portal

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Contributed by Chris McNutt  Host of the the weekly podcast the McNuttiest Dimension. Whew! We’re finally on the other side of the Lion’s Gate Portal, and hopefully everyone made it through successfully with your DNA activated and avatar upgraded – or something like that.  All good, right? Or maybe … WTF are you even talking […]