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By Millicent Borges Accardi
Raised in Los Banos, California, Portuguese-American writer Sam Pereira has published six books, most recently,
True North and Untrue You (Nine Mile 2020), a poetry collection which David St John (author of
The Last Troubadour: New and Selected Poems) states is “uniquely American. . . as if Lenny Bruce had written songs with Tom Waits.” Diniz Borges, director of the Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute at California State University, Fresno adds that Pereira’s latest book “engages, surprises and liberates.”
Besides the six collections of poetry, Pereira’s work has also appeared in several anthologies of contemporary American poetry, among them:
I’m sorry that I have to write this. I really am. I
want it to work. But the growing chorus of aspirational claims that “Toronto’s tech ecosystem is growing faster than anywhere else in North America” or “The Toronto-Waterloo corridor is ‘the nice person’s Silicon Valley’” honestly do not portray an accurate picture of what we’ve built here.
To be clear: I am not saying there are no individual success stories of Canadian startups, or that there are no good angel investors or VCs here, or that there are no individual instances of things going right. Shopify obviously worked out great, there are other big success stories like Lightspeed making their way up, we have some really good initiatives around bringing new builders into Canada, and there are a good many individually inspiring startups that I admire.