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April 24, 2015 by Robin Rowland

Haisla author Joe Starr weaves magic in short story collection

In the opening short story of Haisla First Nation author Joe Starr’s collection, Nuyem Weaver, an elderly woman, the weaver, makes her last journey, by canoe, to the site of an abandoned village where the yellow cedar trees call to her so she can strip the bark and weave a new floor mat, a thlee-we […]

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September 9, 2010 by Robin Rowland

Don’t ask, don’t tell, but you can use the flash drive

A U.S. federal judge stuck down the American ban on gays in the military on Sept. 9. 2010. District Judge  Virginia Phillips ruled  that policy of don’t ask don’t tell was a violation  of the US First Amendment that gives Americans freedom of speech (pretty obvious once you think of it) And speaking of free […]

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November 4, 2009 by Robin Rowland

Shooting scary: available light on a dark Halloween night

In Toronto, the place to be late on Halloween night–for adults–is Church Street, the heart of the city’s “gay village” (although most gay people who live in the neighborhood  still call it “the ghetto”).  Just a few years ago, when the city began closing off Church Street for the traditional gay and lesbian celebration of […]