Articles in Memoir


December 2009

Zero Sum

In implementing zero tolerance for sexual abuse, has the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario become a source of harm to the patients it’s trying to protect?


October 2009

Cause and Effect

Fetal alcohol syndrome is preventable, incurable, and surprisingly common. Still, it brought me Boop, who has redefined my life


July 2009

Sibling Rivalry Redux

As parents grow old, the children who care for them don’t always grow up


March 2009

House of Snow

A memoir of whiteout in Newfoundland


July 2008

Shelter From The Storm

Fathers and sons, architecture as refuge, and a family’s great loss


December 2007

Test of the Heart WalrusPrime Article

This is the story of a heart operation. It’s also the story of a marriage.


November 2007

Through Darkness and Light

Exhuming the ghosts of war in England and Greenland


March 2007

We Want a Black Poem WalrusPrime Article

In search of an interview with James Baldwin, a young Canadian immigrant experiences the intensity of Harlem in the 1960s, and ultimately finds Malcolm X.


February 2007

Ringo’s Drum Roll

(or, lessons in living on a modest talent)


July 2006

The Changeling WalrusPrime Article

On top of the TV there was a picture, colourized and framed, of baby Gail sitting on my father’s knee, with her name printed in the top right corner: Gail Gallant at 3 months

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Dream Genes
Dream Genes
by Arno Kopecky | FEBRUARY 2006
If you can’t beat’em at the Olympics, try manipulating your dna

Politics as Unusual:A Legend is Born
Politics as Unusual:
A Legend is Born

by Barry Campbell | MARCH 2008
Barry Campbell runs for office, knocks on doors