The Stigmata of Oedipus
by David Meagher
photos by c. smith
How do we speak of the proper management of “bedbugs”, the notorious pest which has captured so much media attention, especially since plaguing some more up-scale hotels in New York City, this pest which appears to have become a key concern of the Toronto Board of Health, [...]
This poem was written by my daughter Meighan MCGraw at the age of 14, She wrote for a poverty event here in Saskatoon. She is now 16 and still writes.
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Iroquois Story of Creation
Woman Who Fell From The Sky
In the beginning, in the Sky World, a pregnant wife asked her husband to fetch the delicacies she craved. But she wanted the bark of a root of the Great Tree in [...]
The Stop At The Barns
Mon Mar 16, 2009
By Cheryl Smith
Photo by John Bonnar
Saturday morning market at The Barns is bustling. Under the protection of the Covered Street, there is action here no matter the weather. It is always a warm welcome. It is community at its best.
Brought to us [...]
“The sharpest stigma I ever felt was at the hands of loved ones.”
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The Box
I live outside the box-yet the box lives closed locked up in me.
I have approached the box, I have melded into it, I have never stood outside ‘to see what I could see‘. Let’s see.
It is oblique turquoise and silver shelled, twinkling on a soft pink cloud of hue; it holds the answer to [...]
“This is how we do it…”
by Cheryl Smith
March 20/2011
On Wednesday morning I woke up in a foul temper. With world events and harsh realities both personal and global whirling in my head, I hit face book to share. Perhaps that was my first mistake.
What ensued was pure lunacy, a flagrant abuse of power and an [...]
The BITCH Manifesto
by Joreen
Written in the fall of 1968, this paper was first published in Notes from the Second Year ed. [...]
The B u l l e t
Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 460
February 11, 2011
Mubarak’s Folly:
The Rising of Egypt’s Workers
David McNally
Rarely do our rulers look more absurd than when faced with a popular upheaval. As fear and apathy are broken, ordinary people – housewives, students, sanitation workers, the unemployed – remake themselves. Having [...]
by Flora Terah Igoki on Monday, 24 January 2011 at 06:29
Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there; they serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson or help figure out who you are or who you want to become. You [...]