Where I used to live

My first memories of a home are of when my family lived in the basement apartment at 184 Hopedale Avenue in East York. This former

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Brown Boy: a memoir

I know Omer Aziz from the Mississauga Central Library and also from the nextdoor YMCA. I admired his passion for books as I always saw

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Denny Doherty

Denny Doherty, one of the singers of the Mamas & the Papas, died in Mississauga in 2007. I attended his funerary wake at the Skinner

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Cheap spliffs

That explains the cloud of “herbal aromas” emanating from the premises. I took this photo at a strip mall close to where I live.

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Mississauga poetry

When I was in grade twelve my English teacher gave the class an assignment to write poetry inspired by our home city of Mississauga, Ontario.

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