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By Karen Bass

Alberta-based Geoffrey Bilson Award–winning author Karen Bass draws on the Cree legend of the Wîhtiko for her latest YA novel, which blends adventure, horror, and some good old-fashioned coming-of-age wisdom. En route to spend the ... Read More »

February 17, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

By Joan Crate

The shameful legacy of Canada’s residential school system, the church-run educational regime that forcibly plucked First Nations children from their homes in a effort to compel their assimilation into mainstream (meaning European) culture, has been ... Read More »

February 17, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Colleen Nelson

Cerebral, straight-laced 15-year-old Hope Randall is eager to leave her small town of Lumsville and escape her apathetic parents and 18-year-old meth-addicted brother, Eric. Once the town’s star hockey player and bound for the NHL, ... Read More »

February 8, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

By Kris Bertin

An armchair profiler challenge based on the acknowledgments page in the debut story collection by Kris Bertin, a Haligonian bartender: We are presented with the fact that the stories were written when Bertin was between ... Read More »

February 8, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short