At the end of his first month in Canada, Nino is convinced that he has made a mistake. This is not the place for him. But he cannot go back defeated, a failure, a fool in the eyes of his family [...]

If necessity is the mother of invention, speed dating may be the progeny of stalled opportunities for singles. Tired of the smoke-filled bar scene and losing faith in chance as a source of [...]

Back in the long-distant 1970s, when writers such as Diane Schoemperlen, Lynne Van Luven, Joan Clark, L.R. “Bunny” Wright and I learned our fiction craft from W.O. Mitchell’s “free fall” [...]

On a cold, snowy Valentine’s Day last winter, an appropriate day for matters of love and marriage, Keith Purdy and Rick Kennedy applied for a marriage licence. They approached a clerk at a [...]