ISSUE NO. 1| October/November 2025 | VOLUME 7

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Artist Spotlight: Bob Cole & Modern Music Studio

We see it time and time again in our studio. The kids who come to see us often have this perception that music is magic, that it can’t be understood. Learning about melody and harmony, chord progressions, and just how simple the construction of their favourite music is, a lot of the time, helps to break down that mysticism, making learning the language of music more accessible.

Mikaela Brewer

5 days ago6 min read

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Book Review: Genderqueer: Maia Kobabe (2019)

This 2019 memoir by author, advocate, and storyteller Maia Kobabe (e/em/eir) is a tender journey through childhood to adolescence, exploring gender expression and the anxieties of growing up. It’s a beautiful walk with time and acceptance of oneself—a teacher, a guide, and at times, a friend.

Abbigale Kernya

4 min read

Ghosts on the Ocean: A Story of Foster Care & Adoption

Every Halloween, bobbing on the ocean in Big Barnie, my parents read aloud our favourite ghost story at midnight: The Little Mermaid. “Even the ghosts of the sea were cold,” my dad, Jack, whispered, making use of the gap in his teeth. He frizzed up his blue-black hair so it looked spiked with hair gel.

Mikaela Brewer

11 min read

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Poet's Corner: “half-blood” by Justene Dion-Glowa

The brilliance of Justene Dion-Glowa’s poem shines through their use of white space on the page, which is one of my favourite craft tools in poetry. In “half-blood”, space—including caesuras, stanza breaks, line breaks, and indents, for example—works as hard as words, enacting the feeling of being ‘halved’ alongside a sort of sinister whiteness.

Mikaela Brewer

3 min read

Charlie Kirk: You Can't Pick & Choose Your Martyr

by Abbigale Kernya

More than a few Bad Apples

by Gillian Smith-Clark

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Remember That we are Survivors

by Asante Haughton

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When the Bad News Doesn't Stop

by Maureen Pollard

Finding the Light

by Maureen Pollard

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