Author Joan Thomas’ award-winning novel challenges the lessons she was taught as a child.  Thomas’ novel Five Wives is a recent winner of the Governor-General Literary Award. She spoke with The Journal about her experience writing the book and where her inspiration came from. Her book follows five...

Armand Garnet Ruffo’s life has always been marked by treaties. Many decades ago, his great-great-grandfathers signed them, and today in the twenty-first century, his life as an Ojibwe Canadian is still shaped by the many treaties governing the existence of Indigenous people. His latest book, a collection...