Salt
BY Samantha Carroll
It doesn’t seem fair To call it “New” or “Found” When its been waiting With weathered salted wisdom For as long as dark rocks have held line after line Of…
How to salvage a planet and save ourselves:
Journalist and historian Gwynne Dyer is the author of more than a dozen books on war, terrorism, and foreign affairs books and writes a twice-weekly column, published internationally; in his…
The Healers
BY Shannon Webb-Campbell
While I was home in Newfoundland this past summer, I was given a copy of a series of graphic novels by David Alexander Robinson dubbed Tales from Shadow River, illustrated stories about Indigenous people (Highwater Press). The Healer: Mary Webb, retells the life of my paternal great-great-grandmother, Mary Webb, a Mi’kmaq healer and midwife to 700 babies around Bay St Georges on NL’s west coast.