“That summer — 1975 — I started to write songs. I wrote four songs a day and I did that for two or three years.”
by : Sal Sawler
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Jaysus, Lisa, your questions read like poems … my who? Painter-twin?? Ahem, of course, oh yes, absolutely, William Turner! (Quickly googling here) … Ah! Yes, yes, The Painter of Light … light is everything, everywhere, even in our brightest hour we are grovelling for the light…
Confronting political indifference, the Mi’kmaq and some of their allies have turned to the courts to affirm Mi’kmaw treaties as a path to a better future based on their understandings of them and of the oral traditions that provide valid evidence in court proceedings. However, little is known about First Nations peoples’ lives under treaties, or about the changing perceptions of the courts and of Canadians, whether Indigenous or not, to the treaties.
It seems like everything Beaton’s pencil touches turns to gold, which is apt, because her second children’s book is called King Baby. King Baby, like Princess and the Pony, is as entertaining for parents as it is for children. King Baby is about a newborn baby and illustrates how first-borns rule their parents with absolute power.
Women hold three percent of decision-making positions in media management, and only twenty percent of news articles are about women and their experiences.
“As voters we are behaving more and more like our neighbours to the South, with their presidential system, and we vote for one leader or the other.”
Surely fiction writers owe more to our hardworking fellow writers than silence, a Facebook like or ephemeral blog posts and blurbs.
“I think it is clear that there is not a whole lot of relevant cultural information in the school systems.”
For Sewell, stories are a way to share information, to pass on messages, to report on what is happening in the world now and explore the things that have happened in the past, so that we can apply those lessons to our present and our future.
Although Gloria Ann Wesley fell into publishing almost by accident, there’s no arguing the fact that it was meant to be. This esteemed poet and author is recognized as the first published Black Nova Scotian poet
“…for all the travels I’ve done, the most exotic place in the world to me still was the mountain and the valley where I came from.”
These choices come from someone who reads limited nonfiction and is a thoroughly deconsecrated Catholic.
