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Dany Assaf is a lawyer who was born and raised in Edmonton. The descendant of proud Muslims, including his great grandfather who helped build Canada’s first mosque in Edmonton in 1938, Assaf grew up excelling at hockey, worshipping the Oilers, and mostly living in harmony with his fellow citizens.
But after 9/11, a sign pointing to his childhood home bore the following inscription, “Osama bin Laden lives closer than you think.”
In his new book,
Say Please and Thank You & Stand in Line, Dany Assaf chronicles his family’s history in Alberta, the dangerous shift in anti-Muslim rhetoric over the last 20 years, and how he feels Canada and Alberta still have a chance to live up to their ideals. On Wednesday, June 9, 2021 on
After speaking with the Bob Dylan Center’s curator, Michael Chaiken, our own Vish Khanna learned that Center is more than just a tribute to the world’s most impactful, living songwriter.
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Rollie Pemberton was once the poet laureate of Edmonton, and he remains a world-famous hip-hop artist known as
On his hot new album
Parallel World, Cadence Weapon uses his platform to talk about an important but often overlooked aspect of this country’s legacy: Black Canadian history.
Dawn Dumont.
Nesteroff, who is a white man from British Columbia but lives in Hollywood, has said that he approached the book by emphasizing Indigenous comedians telling their own stories in their own words. In fact, major Indigenous authors, including
Stephen Graham Jones,
David Treuer, and
Philip J. Deloria have lauded the project. Nevertheless, some readers might be wary to trust this story to be told correctly by a historian who isn’t Indigenous.
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