Governor of the Northern Province is an interesting piece of Canadian literature. Upon first glance, you might be tempted to even call it anti-Canadian, with its frequent jabs at small town Canada and our political nature. These jabs hurt because like most satire, there's a grain of truth wrapped...
Instead he made his way by foot along Lotus Road, where there were enough beggars, sick men, and sellers to step over shoulder by and break past, enough to make a man feel like he was still moving through the world of his own volition. Even a forty-six-year-old grandfather. He walked the same rou...
He laughed at what passed for tragedy in his new country. Last week, the body of a little girl was found pressed against a sewer grate. She had been catching water spiders on a creek swollen by the spring thaw. A floating barrette alerted a man walking his dog. Little Caitlin. In the newspapers a...