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The words of truth and reconciliation need to be put into action

In This Together: Fifteen Stories of Truth and Reconciliation

by Edited by Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

(Brindle & Glass,

2016;

$19.95)

No matter who you are -- Indigenous or non-Indigenous -- the words truth and reconciliation can be hard to swallow.

When you hear the words over and over again, you begin to tire of what can be said, especially when these words seem to be popular in today's politics. These terms, truth and reconciliation, are based upon the actions and words of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission that was put together to deal with Canada's genocidal residential school system and its survivors.

Aside from the work of the actual Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the words truth and reconciliation are now largely used as a tool to get Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to work together.

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The revolution will be led by women with wooden legs

In the Land of Two-Legged Women

by Huey Helene Alcaro

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"They were going to cut off her leg."

Huey Helene Alcaro's debut novel In the Land of Two Legged Women begins with this terrifying pronouncement.

"It was a blue and golden day, so beautiful it hurt and they were going to saw off her leg."

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The right to ride: Everything you need to know about urban cycling

The Urban Cycling Survival Guide: Need-to-Know Skills and Strategies for Biking in the City

by Yvonne Bambrick With illustrations by Marc Ngui

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I consider myself an amateur bike rider: I like biking as a fun and pragmatic activity, I feel somewhat confident on the road and I can definitely see the health and environmental benefits of it. However, I don't know how to fix a flat tire and I still generally fear for my life on busy streets.

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To literary comics, with love: Drawn & Quarterly celebrates 25 years

Drawn and Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels

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When I was 14 years old, in 1993, I regularly took the bus to the head shop downtown. I wasn't looking for incense or used records or any of the more adult contraband housed deeper in the shop. Instead I stayed near the door where a wire rack was stocked with the latest alternative comic books.

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Sex, drugs and pyromania: 'The Green Hotel' exposes Toronto's underbelly

The Green Hotel

by Jesse Gilmour

(Quattro Books,

2014;

$18.00)

First time author, Jesse Gilmour was introduced to the Canadian arts scene as a subject of a book instead of as a writer. His father, the infamous David Gilmour, wrote the memoir The Film Club, which talks about their relationship around the time when Jesse dropped out of high school.

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'Craftivism' puts the optimism and whimsy back in activism

Craftivism: The Art and Craft of Activism

by Edited by Betsy Greer

(Arsenal Pulp Press,

2014;

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How do you express your activism?

In Craftivism: The Art and Craft of Activism, the intersection of craft and activism reveals how 'crafters' change their world around them. From AIDS activism to yarn bombing to stitching in prisons to revolutionary ceramics, craftivism is an inspiring movement.

The excerpt below provides three craftivism vignettes. Each project expresses the need for craftivism in community and why it helps to make change. The crafts bring a sense of optimism, whimsy and possibility to situations that are anything but.

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'Gender Failure' defies gender rules, roles and assumptions

Gender Failure

by Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon

(Arsenal Pulp Press,

2014;

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"I had no way to talk about gender. I wasn't allowed to express how uncomfortable it was for me. To resist would have put me in danger, so I kept any subversive thoughts covert. As a person who couldn't conform to what was expected of me, I thought I was a failure and kept it to myself..."

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Are you Pro or Con Canada Reads?

Kaitlin McNabb

| March 6, 2014

Another Canada Reads is done and another simultaneous outcry and cheer about the validity of the program has happened. Maybe's it's the terrible weather this time of year or maybe it's the reliance on a "survivor" style format, but either way, Canada Reads has become a polarizing topic in discussions about CanLit.

"The format is the worst!" "It generates so much exposure!" "The readers don't have a voice!" "I love Jay Baruchel!" "It's just a game!"

There are lots of opinions and comments about Canada Reads and there seems only one thing left to do: we need to have a point-counterpoint with ourselves.

So, let's compare some art! The question on all our minds: Is Canada Reads beneficial to Canadian literature?

No time for boring books: Great Canadian books recommended by great Canadian people

Kiley Turner

| August 1, 2013

What do Steph VanderMeulen, Vicki Ziegler, Daniel Francis, Sarah Leavitt, Chad Pelley, Eve Corbel, Evan Munday and Nancy Flight have in common? No time for boring books. That's because they are -- variously -- reviewers, bloggers, publishers, authors, editors and publicists who spend a huge amount of time thinking about and working with or on books. So when it comes to the simple pleasure of reading, the book has to be good. We asked the bunch of them for the Canadian reads they couldn't put down this summer and got a delightfully eclectic list as a result.

Contemporary Canadian Lit

'Everything Is So Political' interprets 'What is political?' into a diverse and memorable marriage of art and politics

Everything Is So Political: A Collection of Short Fiction by Canadian Writers

by Sandra McIntyre (editor)

(Roseway Publishing,

2013;

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In a 2005 interview with Salman Rushdie, interviewer Jack Livings of The Paris Review asked a seemingly simple question of the author: "Could you possibly write an apolitical book?" Rushdie, known for his novels with overtly political themes, replied that he had "great interest in it," using the example of Jane Austen, whom he said could "explain the lives of her characters without a reference to the public sphere."

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