’I had a dream to wrestle like the Canadians’
Daniel Igali on winning gold—and finding family—in Canada
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Meagan Campbell
Meagan Campbell is based at the Ottawa bureau, where she writes about politics and the people behind it. In the past, she’s worked with The Atlantic Monthly, The Spectator (U.K.) and CBC Radio. She’ll always be from Charlottetown.
‘I never tell someone they don’t have talent’
Josa Maule founded the Montreal School of Performing Arts
’I was trying to wish myself back to Korea’
Yonah Martin, a senator from B. C., was motivated by her father’s work ethic
‘People don’t go for extraterrestrial’
Peter Goreham gives his version of the Shag Harbour UFO sighting
’If Bob Dylan could write songs, we could write songs.’
Sylvia Tyson moved to New York with a plywood guitar
’I got my first regular cheque at the age of 64’
Landon Pearson became the senator for children
‘We want the biggest damned painting you can do’
Daphne Odjig, celebrated Aboriginal painter, on her epic masterpiece
‘The black eye didn’t stop me from playing ball’
Arleene Noga on playing in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League