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Northern Light is a book by Kazim Ali.(Goose Lane Editions)
Kazim Ali was the child of South Asian immigrants, who unexpectedly spent years of his childhood in the small Manitoba town of Jenpeg, a town that existed because of the hydroelectric dam nearby. As an adult, he found himself wondering about the town: did it even exist anymore? And if it did, what was it like? These questions sent him on a journey, one that looked at the environmental destruction the dam caused, and the local Pimicikamak community that fought against it.
Northern Light is Ali s story, the story of the Pimicikamak community and the story of a town that no longer exists.
Posted: May 08, 2021 8:00 AM CT | Last Updated: May 8
Self portrait by Yukon artist Cole Pauls. (Cole Pauls)
Cole Pauls was just starting his career when he came up with the idea for his Pizza Punks comic strip.
He was in his second year of art school, studying at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, when a friend asked him to submit something to a local alternative paper. His strip about some punks who really, really love pizza caught on, and Pauls drew the strip for five years before taking a break to work on other projects.
Now, he s back at it.
Vancouver-raised Sook-Yin Lee has flown her freak flag for decades straight.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from straight.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
40 at 40: Sook-Yin Lee has flown her freak flag for decades
The former MuchMusic VJ reflects on her whole career through two NOW covers from 1990 and 2006 and talks about her new album, jooj two By Richard Trapunski and Kim Hughes
Apr 5, 2021
Sook-Yin Lee has been a creative presence in Canada for decades. If you’re of a certain generation, she might be your paragon of cool – something that continues to this day with her new album, jooj two, with her late ex-partner Adam Litovitz.
As a MuchMusic VJ in the mid-to-late 90s and the best-known host of the “alternative” music video show The Wedge, she was a champion of music rarely seen on TV. She kept up that spirit even when she moved to the more staid state broadcaster, CBC Radio, to host Definitely Not The Opera.