Month: February 2005

Shapeless blobs of colour, bright pink and electric blue, shift and float in and out of the screen. The colours dance in time to the music, a steady rhythm in the background . . .

Before peanut butter and jam there was tongue.

A lyricist and poet who grew up on the streets of downtown Ottawa is breathing new life into the city’s poetry scene with his monthly No Rules Poetry Slams held in the Parliament Pub on Sparks Street.

On Oct. 24, 1993, Saskatchewan farmer Robert Latimer carried his 12-year-old daughter to his pick-up truck, attached a hose from the exhaust pipe into the cab and turned on the ignition. Then he sat in the back of the truck and watched her die.