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What Matters

Annie Newman

What Matters was composed by singer and songwriter Randi Driscoll. I am a member of Out in Harmony, an LGBTQIA2S+ ...

Yukon Christmas

Harris Taylor

It’s minus 40 degrees outside and the smoke from my wood stove is rising like a black poker in the ...

Poilievre is Bad for the Environment!

An Advocacy Group who are members of QUIRK-E

Poilievre voted against environment and climate bills 400 times during his 20 years as a Conservative MP in the House ...

The Serengeti Rules

Lorri Rudland

This DVD, (2019, distributed by PBS, available at vpl.ca) tells an exceptional story and is worth taking out of the ...

Working from the Inside

Farren Gillaspie

Living in a world surrounded by homophobia in the 1980s, I learned early on that it is better to enter ...

Review of Will & Harper (netflix Doc)

River Glen

I watched this film about two weeks ago and intended to write a review while it was still fresh in ...

Signs of Meaning

QUIRK-E

This is a series of signs the group crafted at a weekly meeting in 2024 to express an answer to ...

Interview with Christine Waymark – 2019

Paula Stromberg

I’m scared despite my luck in growing older. About 25,000 new cases of dementia are diagnosed in Canada every year, ...

Ride with a New View

River Glen

Originally published in QUIRK-E Collections Volume 5 Today I climbed aboard a bus not intent on a destination; rather I ...

Grandma

Farren Gillaspie

The lane was an uneven gravel pathway with multiple depressions filled with frozen muddy water. The air was crisp and ...