“I feel like we deserve to be here, for sure,” says Johnny Griffin as he squints at me from across the large picnic table, sun in his eyes, “I just didn’t expect us to play this year.” The rest of John Jacob Magistery laugh or nod in agreement, knowing full well that while they are labelled ‘up-and-coming,’…
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The Royal Victoria: the History of Montreal’s Famous Hospital on the Hill
At 6:55 a.m. on April 26, a baby boy named Arthur took his first breath. But, unlike thousands of infants born since 1926, Arthur’s parents did not make their way to 687 Pine Avenue when it came time to bring him into the world. Instead, his birth at the McGill University Health Centre’s newly christened…
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“Regardless of what festival it is, when I look up, I always think ‘I need to get on that fucking stage’.” Sam Olson laughs a big, infectious laugh. She knows full well that she doesn’t want her budding career to be some ‘singing project,’ some personal experiment that will eventually fizzle out when she…
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