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September, 2011

Editorial

27-09-11
This Us and Them isn’t going away so easy…. Rana Bose

Sociological (and sometimes mischievous)  terminology like identity gap and cultural appropriation, accommodation and even assertions like Euro-centrism and Orientalism and  Read more…

Dawson Peace Garden photo #3

Commentary

27-09-11
Teaching “the Other” Patrick Barnard

  Dawson – The New “Other” as The New “Us”?   Most writers and journalists who have grown up with  Read more…

POLE AND WIRE

Art

27-09-11
Looking in and looking out Jason Botkin

BIO: Jason is a 36 year old male.  Thoroughly addicted to pushing charcoal and ink around paper, he is also  Read more…

Chinese Laundry Mural in Vancouver’s Chinatown

Commentary

27-09-11
The Multicultural Panic Mirella Bontempo

  The mass shootings in Utoya, Norway seemed to have shocked the average person, who has never noticed the trends  Read more…

Music

27-09-11
Tell Your Ma, Tell Your Pa: Revolution Rap Rola Harmouche & Prasun Lala

  Rola Harmouche (RH): Thanks for letting me know about the show. Prasun Lala (PL): Well I needed someone to  Read more…

Commentary

27-09-11
“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others” : an examination of identities Shubhobroto Ghosh

  When I was in class three, I remember reading a story about Guru Nanak which spoke about his perplexity  Read more…

09_Heidi

Photo Essay

27-09-11
‘boxed – and if you must put me in a box, make sure it’s a big box’ Ling Yuen

  Bio and art statement:   Ling Yuen is a Canadian/Australian visual artist living, working and studying in Montreal and  Read more…

Commentary

27-09-11
“When did Canada…” Matthew Soule

  When did Canada become the country that it is today? Only a few years ago it was seen as  Read more…

Abdullah Al Malki

Commentary

27-09-11
Taking Responsibility for Torture: How their irresponsibility makes us all pay Tariq Jeeroburkhan

  August 15, 2011 – Abdullah Al Malki is a family man with a life story to tell, and based  Read more…

Meditation

27-09-11
“Where I can cry me a river….” Maya Khankhoje

** Editor’s note:  We have rarely re-printed essays of a recent pedigree, but in this case, we found this essay  Read more…

Poetry

27-09-11
Reprieve, This is also that & Golden Afternoon Arjun Janah

  Reprieve Back again in Brooklyn, where it’s hot. Coffee upstairs in McDonald’s with A.C., at eighty-sixth and twentieth. Music  Read more…

Another Earth

Film Review

27-09-11
Another Earth Jesse Klein

  The low-budget aesthetic lends itself best to local, intimate settings. Bedrooms, backseats of cars, unfinished basements are the places  Read more…

Short Story

27-09-11
Profoundly Banned: A Story Sylvia Goldfarb

  Their love was banned. He was secular and she was religious. Mais l’amour était profond comme un puit dans  Read more…

A QDF board picture from 1992. There are a lot of active people from that scene in the picture including: Nik Pynes, Clare Schapiro, Cas Anvar, Paulina Abarca, Ralph Allison, and Bert Henry.

Commentary

27-09-11
An Interview with Guy Rodgers Anna Fuerstenberg

  Editors Note:  Guy Rodgers, writer and scenariste, has been a tireless campaigner for English Language Artists in Montreal Quebec.  Read more…

Prose

27-09-11
Sympathy for a Sadhu Subir Das

  A fictional rendition of the story of King Dasharatha from the Ramayana   Dasharatha could hear the mynas and  Read more…

Poetry

27-09-11
Budapest Suites & More Bryan Sentes

  Budapest Suites, I (from Grand Gnostic Central:  DC Books, 1998)   “Apply what you know to what you feel  Read more…

Music

27-09-11
Mumbai Blood Prasun Lala & Rana Bose

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Captain America

Film Review

27-09-11
Captain America Jesse Klein

  There are twenty-seven sequels being released this year. The fourth of  Spy Kids, the fifth X-Men, the eighth Harry  Read more…

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