carolyn marie souaid

When I was six, I got a diary for Christmas. It was the kind that fits in the palm of an adult, with a dark red cover, Byzantine-style motifs, gold edged pag...

OR: “What I discovered about teaching, I discovered raising my son” Alex proclaimed it— ceremonially. He was four at most and we were snuggling after his ba...

Everyone’s naked, including the doctors. Everyone’s a cat staring from their window. The earth was always headed in this direction. I’ll admit. I was not thi...

with apologies to Lawren Harris The artist, I would suggest, had a notion of the future, his rendering of clouds and gaseous mountains, volcanic ash on falle...

ate seaweed fresh out of the water checked my emails checked my Facebook watched a dog stand guard while his friend stole scraps from the hotel garbage bin d...

NEW YEAR’S DAY 00:01 A.M. Dropped, the Ball orchestrated the Big Bang, the constellations, the Square & its ear-nose-and-throat-splitting invective. Night ef...

It is fitting that my first public reading of Yasmeen Haddad Loves Joanasi Maqaittik took place at the Royal Military College in Saint-Jean. Two years ago, D...

Years ago, I wrote a snooty piece about how poetry was the highest of all written forms, that its demands on the reader and the writer far exceeded the rigou...

Some say your ancestors arrived from the Bering land bridge 4000 years ago, followed the caribou herds. Mine arrived here by boat from Lebanon in the early 2...

As a Qallunaaq (White/non-Inuit) with a personal interest in the North, I try to see as many Inuit-themed films as I can. These days, there are many. Some ar...

Hommage à Leonard Cohen: A Perfect Offering Saturday, November 12 4 to 6 PM Parc du Portugal, rue Saint-Laurent Kathy Kennedy and the Hmmm project invited al...

image © CMS I'm in Saskatchewan for the Sage Hill Writing Experience, a ten-day retreat for writers at various stages in the development of a literary projec...

"A Pap test plus an HPV test (called co-testing) is the preferred way to find early cervical cancers or pre-cancers in women 30 and older." - from the websit...

Coming off the metro at Atwater station a couple of days ago, I noticed a commotion in the usual spot where people sit begging for money. Two police officers...

This post was written in response to a Bill Maher editorial in which he examines how instilling an overinflated sense of self importance in children has led ...

©DH-Foto Something I posted on my personal Facebook page after Justin Trudeau became the 23rd Prime Minister of our country has resurfaced, partly in respons...

© Carolyn Marie Souaid Like you, I became a teacher. I felt that teachers played a vital role in the well-being and future of a society. Like you, I believed...

(Still from Dominic Gagnon's Of the North) Last Friday night I attended a clandestine screening of Dominic Gagnon's collage-film, Of the North. Clandestine b...

It is clear to us that the largest subsidy to the cultural life of Canada comes, not from governments, corporations or other patrons, but from the artists th...