When did this happen?
When did Winter leave?

Yellow canaries.
Yellow canaries floating down.
Down down.
Singing as they twirl. Down down.

Titled Re(a)ddressed: I am (Japanese) Canadian, the aim of this workshop was to open a dialogue between Japanese Canadian youth surrounding the present and possible futures of identity and ethnicity in Canada. Very suited to these topics was the collaboration of award-winning Canadian independent animation filmmaker, writer and artist, Jeff Chiba Stearns.

Here in Canada, and in British Columbia in particular, turning nineteen comes along with a great deal responsibility. Whisked away so suddenly from minor-hood into adulthood, this is the age when children are, legally at least, sent off for their first taste of the “real” world.
The right to buy Lotto tickets (scratch and win BINGO tickets, finally!), the right to enter into a binding contract (for example, getting your very own cell phone), the right to purchase and consume alcohol (…hmm…), the right to purchase and consume tobacco (although the …

GOING GREEN
At 12:01 on Canada Day the price of gas at pumps throughout British Columbia rose by an additional 2.4 cents, all thanks to the new provincially implemented carbon tax. Now several weeks after the fact, this green government initiative is likely old news to most consumers. Whether you’ve made the effort to cut back on driving or simple swallowed the extra fuel costs, life in and out of vehicles rolls on.
But no one, it seems, regardless of their income bracket, likes to be taxed more than they already are. …

The other day a friend and I got together to catch up on old news. The two of us had been away at different universities for the entire year so getting together meant that there was plenty of new news to share – what courses we had taken courses, how exams had gone, our plans for the summer, our plans for next year. We chatted for quite some time when suddenly my friend jokingly mentioned that she was starting a new diet. “You’re what!?!” I thought to myself. “You’re starting …