But if the WNBA lacks general support, these folks sure know how to work the news-media pump. Where women’s sport was once the earnest, underpaid domain of tom boys and vertically challenged ladies, women’s sport in America, at least, has evolved into a firecracker 500 of radical politics and racial disharmony.

The communing with the other side by FN worthies has won the slavish loyalty of Canada’s wind talker Left. Manitoba’s Ojibway premier Wab Kinew brings the guilt. "A single arrow can be broken easily, but a bundle of arrows cannot be snapped." The land acknowledgements kabuki is the receipt of their capitulation.

Podcasts have become so ubiquitous it’s easy to forget they are relative newcomers to the digital broadcast scene. For this reason, a recently released academic work - Podcast Studies: Practice into Theory- is an important read for podcast listeners, podcast content creators and those who promote and curate this rapidly evolving medium.

Skilled satire, adroit wit and whimsy combine with engaging

prose and intriguing characters to make Canadian author

Christy Climenhage’s debut novel, The Midnight Project, an

often-exceptional read.

Four dynamic poetic voices— each with distinct perspectives on spiritual enlightenment, trauma, pastoral beauty and the joys of the physical body— were highlighted at McClelland & Stewart’s 2025 spring poetry night held earlier this month.

Stephanie Cesca is a strong and capable storyteller. Her passion for detail and vivid imagination creates an authentic fictional world. Readers can see her characters in their mind’s eye. They can relate to their pain.

Throughout the book’s 384 pages, readers are kept guessing as to the killer’s motives. Could such rampaging violence be  a professional hit or a random act of madness? Or was the victim bludgeoned out of existence due to his shady business dealings and abusive, violent past?

Clewes is a sensory, effusive poet. Her lyrical words reflect a deep musical sense. In the third section, Calle Obispo, the poem of the same title, references Nobel Prize-winning poet and Polish-Lithuanian  author Czeslaw Milosz. The first stanza turns a plane trip into a spiritual experience.