They say home is where the heart is. Or is it the hearth? Or both? What constitutes homelessness? Are people […]
Homelessness
Volume 22 Issue 3
The Berth Series
I almost took a Sculpture class once. The first assignment which was to create an outdoor installation and my […]
Homelessness – A Matter Of Choice
If homelessness of an individual or family is a tragedy, homelessness of millions of people must multiply that tragedy […]
The Walks, the Pavements, the Categories and the Statistics
Twenty five years ago a man strolled by me on Viger Street in Montreal. I figured he was a […]
The Soloist
The Soloist. Written by Steve Lopez and Susannah Grant. Directed by Joe Wright. Starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey […]
god sees through the eyes of the homeless and small animals
Short video clip of my friend Edward Charles Lewis. Ed was my inspiration for writing for this article. He is […]
Corn
In the middle of the 9 a.m. newscast I have to leave for work, which is a shame. They’ve […]
My Corner of Paradise
The glare from the neon lights bores through my eyelids making them flutter. I fight back and force them […]
Fault Lines: Lost in the Land of Plenty, Bureaucratic Priorities, The Counting of the Homeless
Lost in the Land of Plenty I live in a welfare hotel and when the electricity gets shut […]
My Daughter, Marisa
With nails that curved over toes. Her limbs, limp, her eyes vacant. She took her acoustic guitar to music […]
Archiving new forms of musical notation – John Cage’s legacy continues in Theresa Sauer’s Notations 21
Notations 21 by Theresa Sauer. Mark Batty Publisher 2009. Hardcover: 320 pages. Reproduced partial images are with permission of the […]
Filling a crying need and shaking the myths
Yves Engler’s The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy When long-time Liberal “busboy” and former “rat-packer” Don Boudria was […]
Theatre Review: Truth and Treason
Truth and Treason by Rahul Varma, Directed by Ariana Bardesono, September 8-19, 2009, Studio Hydro Quebec, Monument National, Montreal. There […]