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s1.e6.GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour – SHIPS, BOATS & CANOES From commerce to transport, fishing and tourism, what happens on the waters happens to the waters.

The great inland seas and waterways were the main source of Great Lakes transportation for centuries. Chuck Commanda gives a lesson on the art and craft of building a birchbark canoe. Explorer/photographer Gary McGuffin recounts his 1983 paddling expedition across North America. Singer/songwriter Dave Francey entertains with stories from his Mike Ford collaboration album, Seaway. And a tribute to the great, late Gordon Lightfoot’s song, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

s1.e6. GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour Music & Art Credits

‘Courage’ Art Painting – Cheryl Thomas

Title – Big Five Water
Artist / Composer – Ray Bonneville

Title – St. Mary’s River Fantasy
Album – Nocturnes
Artist / Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – Harbour Rat Blues
Album – Solitude
Artist/Composer – Britta Wolfert

Title – Paddle Brother
Album – The Way I Feel Today
Artist/Composer – Trevor Tchir

Title – Mino Gizhep
Album – Orchestra
Artist/Composer – Damjam

Title – Epiphany Thunder Drums
Album – Superior : Journeys On An Inland Sea
Artist/Composer – Christine Mills

Title – Dawn Offering
Album – Superior : Journeys On An Inland Sea
Artist/Composer – Christine Mills & Ruth Fletcher (poem)

Title – Reborn In Light
Album – Superior : Journeys On An Inland Sea
Artist/Composer – Christine Mills

Title – Night Offering Lake Song
Album – Superior : Journeys On An Inland Sea
Artist/Composer – Christine Mills

Title – The Seaway
Album – Seaway
Artist – David Francey & Mike Ford
Composer – Mike Ford

Title – 21st Century Great Lake Navigators
Album – Seaway
Artist – David Francey & Mike Ford
Composer – Mike Ford

Title – The Dustless Road to the Happy Land
Album – Seaway
Artist – David Francey & Mike Ford
Composer – David Francey

Title – The Unloading
Album – Seaway
Artist – David Francey & Mike Ford
Composer – David Francey/Craig Werth

Title – All Lights Burning Bright
Album – Seaway
Artist – David Francey & Mike Ford
Composer – David Francey

Title – The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Shipwreck Mix)
Artist/Composer – Gordon Lightfoot

This program produced by GLOW Radio Partners in venture with The Borderline Events Co.

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Inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, the Great Lakes Odyssey World is a multi-national effort to strengthen and explore our relationship with the natural wonders known as the Great Lakes.

In this part of the project, we have created a multi-part audio series looking at the way the Great Lakes shape our lives, our livelihoods, our health and our culture.

50 years ago, folks in the media and elsewhere were ready to declare the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie “dead.”

The thought so appalled citizens in Canada and the United States, they forced their national governments to act.

Because, of course, the Great Lakes shape the life of both Canada and the United States. And, of course, the Great Lakes are a single system stretching from Duluth to Ottawa and down the St. Lawrence seaway. What happens to any of the Lakes will soon happen to the others.

So, the politicians of 50 years ago negotiated the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, “for the purpose of restoring, protecting and enhancing the Great Lakes and the Great Lakes basin.”

50 years later, we can see the agreement worked. We see more fish, cleaner water, and less pollution. Unlike the early settlers and colonials, who mostly saw the Lakes as a resource to tap, we now recognize, like the First Nations, the Lakes are part of our identity. They shape our relationships, our songs and celebrations of place, the way we eat, how we play, and what we make, or sell, or harvest.

50 years since the wake-up call of a burning river, Great Lakes Odyssey wants to learn how we live and love, hurt and restore the incredible gift which is the Great Lakes.

We will explore Great Lakes art and artistic expression, and meet the artists, writers, musicians who make it. We will also dip into Great Lakes history and lore – and learn from the people who have been here the longest and know it the best: The People of the Three Fires, the Anishinaabek.

On our Odyssey around the Great Lakes, we will also hear from people working to prevent poisonous algal blooms or stop the spread of invasive species. We will meet visionaries undoing decades of development that hardened shorelines, emptied marshes and wetlands, and destroyed critical spawning grounds. We will talk to people working to ensure all beings have access to pure drinking water.

Because none of us can live without pure drinking water.

In this wondrous place we call the Great Lakes, we know we are blessed by these Sweet Water Seas. We claim them as our H.O.M.E.S. as the emotionally accurate mnemonic says. They are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior, and they are our HOMES.

As long as humans have lived in, and of and through the Lakes, people have told stories about them, sung about them, and gloried in this great gift of the long departed Ice Age. Left by glaciers thousands of years ago, they are the World’s storehouse of fresh water. If they are drained… or ruined… or damaged, they can never be replaced.

So, as we travel around the Great Lakes basin, we want to see how we are doing – what we are doing – how we’re feeling and what we’re learning as we try to live as lovers and restorers – and children and family – of the being whom the Anishinaabek call Nayaano-nibiimaang Gichigamiin, the five freshwater seas.

We hope to galvanize, inspire, and motivate you to strengthen, support and steward the Great Lakes to a beautiful and healthy future.

So please join us on this magical, dare we say “magical mystery tour” of the Great Lakes basin and Great Lakes culture.

Date:11 October 2026 .

PMDD, Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, is a cyclical, hormone-based mood disorder. It is triggered by ovulation and occurs during the luteal phase (the final two weeks before a period starts). Unlike typical PMS, PMDD causes debilitating emotional and physical symptoms that heavily disrupt daily life, work, and relationships. The symptoms usually fade shortly after menstrual bleeding begins.

PMDD is a disorder that impacts millions of people worldwide, making it roughly as common as conditions like type 2 diabetes, though it is frequently under-diagnosed or mislabelled as general depression or severe PMS. The ladies invite Shawna to speak about her experience with this little known condition.

“It only took a dozen or so in-patient hospitalizations, close to 50 ECT treatments, 6 ketamine treatments, hundreds of hours talking to psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers. I’ve been to Grand Rapids, Traverse City, Midland, Petoskey and endless trips to Kinross…. and this is part of my diagnosis, PMDD with ADHD. I share this with you because before my recent diagnosis I had never heard of PMDD. I just thought I had really bad PMS, with treatment resistant depression and anxiety.”

Lisa & Carol & Liz & Shawna

Date:8 October 2026 .

Randy Russon and Brad Coccimiglio co-host The Hockey North Show. They recap the week in hockey in Ontario and elsewhere.

Kevin Cain follows with The Hockey Scratch Podcast.

Date:7 October 2026 .

Marytė Running is an international award-winning Canadian author. She lives in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, with her husband Jim and and their ‘foster-fail’ dog, Rosie. Summers are spent on nearby St. Joseph Island.

Although born in England, Maryte still maintains ancestral ties with Kilbehenny, Ireland and Ukmergė, Lithuania. Her two grandchildren, Gavin and Elaina, drive her passion to write.

Blue Isn’t Just a Colour – is a deeply moving story about belonging, second chances, and the quiet strength it takes to heal.

Connor Morrison is eleven years old and used to starting over. In and out of foster care because of his mother’s struggles with addiction, he has learned to travel light — carrying everything he owns in a single grocery bag and guarding his heart just as tightly. New schools mean new bullies. New homes mean new goodbyes. And each move makes him feel more invisible than the last.

But this time is different.

Connor is placed at Harper’s Farm, a small hobby farm in Northern Ontario run by retired teachers Mary and Jim Harper. Surrounded by rescue animals too old, too broken, or too “unadoptable” for anyone else, Connor begins to see pieces of himself reflected back at him. A blind llama. An injured raccoon. Aging farm dogs. Each creature carries its own scars — yet each one is still worthy of love.

As Connor adjusts to farm life, structured routines, and genuine kindness, he slowly discovers that stability can feel unfamiliar — even frightening. Through new friendships, school challenges, and quiet moments in the barn, he begins to understand that “blue” is more than sadness. It can mean loyalty, strength, depth, and hope.

With warmth, honesty, and emotional depth, Marytė Running delivers a story that speaks to children who feel unseen, families who foster and adopt, and anyone who believes that love and patience can change a life.

Blue Isn’t Just a Colour is a powerful reminder that healing doesn’t happen all at once — it happens one kind word, one steady hand, and one brave step at a time.

Date:6 October 2026 .

MUSICOLOGY is powered by Long & McQuade, 647 MacDonald Ave, Sault Ste. Marie, ON

MUSICOLOGY with dj Danny Mott

Musicology is a form of music analysis that emphasizes culture, sociology, and music history. When musicologists study music, they go beyond the notes on a page. Among other things, they track the history of music, the evolution of musical instruments, cultural contexts of various genres, and performance practices associated with certain types of musical ensembles.

About Your Host

DANNY MOTT was born in England and raised in Canada. Danny has been involved in myriad recordings and in various countries, most notably in Jamaica and Cuba.

Danny’s music is released under the moniker, “Mocombo” where he acts as composer, producer, engineer and musician. Mocombo is a versatile band project that shifts effortlessly between world music, traditional blues, Cuban jazz and blues rock.

Danny has a rich academic background in music that includes various diplomas, degrees and certificates. Danny’s studies include; Classical guitar from the Algoma Conservatory of Music; Composition, performance, music history, music business and retailing from Humber College of Applied Arts; North Indian Hindustani classical music at the Academy Of Eastern Fine Arts; Adult teaching techniques for music at Sault College of Applied Arts and Technology; Music education at the University of Victoria; Studio recording from the Institute of Recording and Arts; Music theory at the Royal Conservatory of Music; Music and anthropology at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Dean’s Honour List; Religious traditions of Islam at the University of Waterloo.

Danny’s music performance and work history are also impressive. As a tour promoter, acts like Gordon Lightfoot and Ravi Shankar; as a music teacher at Nelson Music in B.C.; Music Marketing Director and music technician at Saved By Technology in Toronto, with a client list including the Rolling Stones, Rush, Barenaked Ladies, Jane Siberry, and many more; Marketing and Sales Director for On Publications Inc., a national distribution of music print medium company; Marketing Director for Roy Creations International in Montreal, for the Canadian Recording Industry Association.

Danny has orchestrated several projects, including a film in the Cuban language, with the participation of Cuba’s National Dance Company.

Danny’s project, Mocombo, has issued seven outstanding CDs: Odyssey, Zubie Zubie, Dreamscape, Flophouse Daddy, Flophouse Daddy Returns (Boldly Going Nowhere), Global 360 and Mocombo in Habana Project (2 CD set).

Danny Mott

Date:5 October 2026 .

The Great Lakes Odyssey Radio Hour is broadcast on National Public Radio (WCMU-NPR).

s1.e4 GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour – The eternal mystery that lives in the heart of Turtle Island and the story and legend of the sturgeon fish family on the GLO Odyssey expedition.

Sturgeon are of the family Acipenseridae, their history dating to the early Jurassic period, and as long ago as man has told stories. Even as they are in the waters the sturgeon story is man’s story, living in harmony until several negative impacts in confluence – overfishing, poaching, altered and destroyed habitats – cut off ancestral spawning grounds, pushing several species to the verge of extinction. The sturgeon legend teaches that to live man must help sturgeon as sturgeon has helped man. Their wisdom of the ages has survived sturgeon through every era in world history. And still the old fish is teaching man new tricks.

Dean Sayers, elder story teller and former long-time chief of Batchewana First Nations, on Ojibwe nma, the sturgeon story in Indigenous lore. Thomas Sinclair, woodland artist in the style of Norval Morisseau, on the master’s Legend of The Snake Sturgeon. Raven, co-leader of the global blues, reggae and soul sound band, Digging Roots, digs in on their ancestral roots. Music: M.D. Dunn, Glad Fletcher-Hawkins, Don Charbonneau.

s1.e4 GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour Music & Art Credits

Legend of the Snake Sturgeon Art Painting – Norval Morrisseau

Title – Big Five Water
Artist/Composer – Ray Bonneville

Title – Sweetwater
Album – Zhawenim
Artist – Digging Roots

Title – St. Mary’s River Fantasy
Album – Nocturnes
Artist/Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – Gitchi Gami
Album – Nocturnes
Artist/Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – Safe Harbour
Album – Nocturnes
Artist/Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – Ghost Water
Album – The River Lately
Artist/Composer – M.D. Dunn

Title – Michigan Twilight
Album – Nocturnes
Artist/Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – Night Voyage
Album – Nocturnes
Artist/Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – Ghost Water
Album – The River Lately
Artist/Composer – M.D. Dunn

Title – Dirty Water
Album – The Zombie Zone
Artist/Composer – Trappa Skunk

Title – Listen To The Wind
Artist/Composer – Glad Fletcher-Hawkins

Title – The Healer
Album – Zhawenim
Artist/Composer – Digging Roots

Title – Tall Grass
Album – Zhawenim
Artist/Composer – Digging Roots

Title – For The Light
Album – For The Light
Artist/Composer – Digging Roots

Title – Skoden
Album – Zhawenim
Artist/Composer – Digging Roots

Title – Thunderbird Town
Album – Waiting For The Cage
Artist/Composer – Grievous Angels

Title – Spirit of Misshepezhieu
Album – Gitche Gumee Songs From the Lake
Artist/Composer – Don Charbonneau

Title – Mishepeshu
Album – Superior
Artist – Dreyam

This program is produced by Great Lakes Odyssey Radio Partners in venture with The Borderline.

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Inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, the Great Lakes Odyssey World is a multi-national effort to strengthen and explore our relationship with the natural wonders known as the Great Lakes.

In this part of the project, we have created a multi-part audio series looking at the way the Great Lakes shape our lives, our livelihoods, our health and our culture.

50 years ago, folks in the media and elsewhere were ready to declare the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie “dead.”

The thought so appalled citizens in Canada and the United States, they forced their national governments to act.

Because, of course, the Great Lakes shape the life of both Canada and the United States. And, of course, the Great Lakes are a single system stretching from Duluth to Ottawa and down the St. Lawrence seaway. What happens to any of the Lakes will soon happen to the others.

So, the politicians of 50 years ago negotiated the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, “for the purpose of restoring, protecting and enhancing the Great Lakes and the Great Lakes basin.”

50 years later, we can see the agreement worked. We see more fish, cleaner water, and less pollution. Unlike the early settlers and colonials, who mostly saw the Lakes as a resource to tap, we now recognize, like the First Nations, the Lakes are part of our identity. They shape our relationships, our songs and celebrations of place, the way we eat, how we play, and what we make, or sell, or harvest.

50 years since the wake-up call of a burning river, Great Lakes Odyssey wants to learn how we live and love, hurt and restore the incredible gift which is the Great Lakes.

We will explore Great Lakes art and artistic expression, and meet the artists, writers, musicians who make it. We will also dip into Great Lakes history and lore – and learn from the people who have been here the longest and know it the best: The People of the Three Fires, the Anishinaabek.

On our Odyssey around the Great Lakes, we will also hear from people working to prevent poisonous algal blooms or stop the spread of invasive species. We will meet visionaries undoing decades of development that hardened shorelines, emptied marshes and wetlands, and destroyed critical spawning grounds. We will talk to people working to ensure all beings have access to pure drinking water.

Because none of us can live without pure drinking water.

In this wondrous place we call the Great Lakes, we know we are blessed by these Sweet Water Seas. We claim them as our H.O.M.E.S. as the emotionally accurate mnemonic says. They are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior, and they are our HOMES.

As long as humans have lived in, and of and through the Lakes, people have told stories about them, sung about them, and gloried in this great gift of the long departed Ice Age. Left by glaciers thousands of years ago, they are the World’s storehouse of fresh water. If they are drained… or ruined… or damaged, they can never be replaced.

So, as we travel around the Great Lakes basin, we want to see how we are doing – what we are doing – how we’re feeling and what we’re learning as we try to live as lovers and restorers – and children and family – of the being whom the Anishinaabek call Nayaano-nibiimaang Gichigamiin, the five freshwater seas.

We hope to galvanize, inspire, and motivate you to strengthen, support and steward the Great Lakes to a beautiful and healthy future.

So please join us on this magical, dare we say “magical mystery tour” of the Great Lakes basin and Great Lakes culture.

Date:4 October 2026 .

LIVEWIRE BLUES POWER is powered by the support of Long & McQuade, 647 MacDonald Ave, Sault Ste. Marie, ON

SWING POWER

The Jive Aces – Planet Jive
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers – Blues Skies
Blues Jumpers – Chicken Wing
Indigo Swing – Regular Joe
Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys – Feeling Kinda Lucky
Eight To The Bar – Demon Rum
The Swingin’ Deacons – Junction Junction
Bellevue Cadillac – Prozac
Savoir-Faire Pistol Pocket Dance Band – Five Months, Two Weeks, Two Days
Swingerhead – Swing Out
Vargas Swing – Satan
The Camaros – Love
John Mayall – Good Times Boogie
John Mayall – Got To Be This Way

The blues tradition began in North America, coming out of the very soul of the earth. Blood, sweat and tears enriched the fertile ground that formed the roots that fed the soul of the people. It exuded itself through the music, we are the blues.

Having grown up on the borderline of the USA, and picking up that great late night blues radio, coming clear from Detroit and Chicago, we grew up accustomed to blues power. It was coming from everywhere. It makes for a vast reservoir of musical knowledge and experience to draw from.

Livewire Blues Power plays classic recordings from the all-time blues greats, as well as blues from around the world rooted in the tradition, and Livewire Blues Power also introduces the music of the Soo’s blues artists to blues fans everywhere.

“IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE BLUES, YA GOTTA HOLE IN YER SOUL”

DANNY MOTT was born in England and raised in Canada. Danny has been involved in myriad recordings and in various countries, most notably in Jamaica and Cuba.

Danny’s music is released under the moniker, “Mocombo” where he acts as composer, producer, engineer and musician. Mocombo is a versatile band project that shifts effortlessly between world music, traditional blues, Cuban jazz and blues rock.

Danny has a rich academic background in music that includes various diplomas, degrees and certificates. Danny’s studies include; Classical guitar from the Algoma Conservatory of Music; Composition, performance, music history, music business and retailing from Humber College of Applied Arts; North Indian Hindustani classical music at the Academy Of Eastern Fine Arts; Adult teaching techniques for music at Sault College of Applied Arts and Technology; Music education at the University of Victoria; Studio recording from the Institute of Recording and Arts; Music theory at the Royal Conservatory of Music; Music and anthropology at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Dean’s Honour List; Religious traditions of Islam at the University of Waterloo.

Danny’s music performance and work history are also impressive. As a tour promoter, acts like Gordon Lightfoot and Ravi Shankar; as a music teacher at Nelson Music in B.C.; Music Marketing Director and music technician at Saved By Technology in Toronto, with a client list including the Rolling Stones, Rush, Barenaked Ladies, Jane Siberry, and many more; Marketing and Sales Director for On Publications Inc., a national distribution of music print medium company; Marketing Director for Roy Creations International in Montreal, for the Canadian Recording Industry Association.

Danny has orchestrated several projects, including a film in the Cuban language, with the participation of Cuba’s National Dance Company.

Danny’s project, Mocombo, has issued seven outstanding CDs: Odyssey, Zubie Zubie, Dreamscape, Flophouse Daddy, Flophouse Daddy Returns (Boldly Going Nowhere), Global 360 and Mocombo in Habana Project (2 CD set).

Danny Mott

“Jazz way not built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.”

Date:3 October 2026 .

In the Reset Lounge, therapy aids the personal journey to health and wellness. The goal is to enhance comfort level and move forward to a better place. The ladies invite a highly qualified guest, Kerri Dool, to share her knowledge of the work she is doing in the field of therapy.

Contemplating and accessing wellness services is an important part of healing and moving forward towards an improved state of well-being.

Lisa & Carol & Kerri

Date:2 October 2026 .

Jack Wetherall is a distinguished artist in theatre, television and film. He was born and raised in the creative vortex that is Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Wetherall now lives in Manhattan, New York.

He began his professional career as a young actor at the Stratford Festival Theatre of Canada. Wetherall was directly recruited before he was able to complete his studies at York University arts program.

There, Wetherall acted in various Shakespeare productions, and as the lead in Elephant Man. He rose to become a leading member of the company.

Additionally, the actor, director, teacher, and coach, Jack Wetherall also steers THE SHAKESPEARE LAB in New York.

Select Credits:

BROADWAY: The Elephant Man (title role). OFF-BROADWAY: The Glass Cage (Malcolm), Mint Theatre; originated the role of Mario in Tamara; HenryVI (Warwick), Theatre for a New Audience; Swansong (Will Shakespeare), Lucille Lortel’s White Barn Theatre; Bad Women (Phaedra), Talking Band. STRATFORD FESTIVAL THEATRE OF CANADA (under Robin Phillips’ artistic direction): Henry V (title role), As You Like It (Orlando) and The Seagull (Konstanin), the latter two opposite Dame Maggie Smith. REGIONAL: William (title role) directed by Charles Towers, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Oscar Wilde), The Retreat from Moscow (Edward), Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Heartbreak House (Shotover), Goodman Theatre; Cyrano de Bergerac (title role), Guthrie Theatre; Pericles (title role), Hartford Stage Company; Twelfth Night (Orsino), The Rivals (Jack Absolute), The Old Globe; Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio), Long Wharf Theatre; Macbeth (title role), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Berowne), Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Richard II (title role), Utah Shakespearean Festival; The Greeks (Orestes), Williamstown Theatre Festival; The Cherry Orchard (Lopakhin), American Conservatory Theatre; Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Valmont), Pittsburgh Public Theatre; Democracy, (Ralph Waldo Emerson) G.C.T.C, Ottawa. FILM: starring role in Third Man Out.

TELEVISION: Queer as Folk (four seasons as Vic), Guiding Light, One Life to Live, Santa Barbara, Ryan’s Hope. AWARDS: Mr. Wetherall won Drama-Logue Awards for his performances in The Bacchae (Dionysus), Odyssey Theatre, and Man and Superman (Jack Tanner), A Noise Within in Los Angeles. OTHER: He directed Measure for Measure at Centre Theatre, Chicago and The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; Our Town, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta; and as assistant director Jekyll & Hyde, Broadway. Recently reprised his role of The Notary in La Fille du Regiment at the Metropolitan Opera.

Most Recent:

Mickey in Richard Dresser’s The Last Days of Mickey and Jean at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre. Additionally, he debuted the one-man show Tunney/Shakespeare in Six Rounds, playing Gene Tunney. He played Willie in Happy Days at the Westport Country Playhouse. Furthermore, Prospero in The Tempest for the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival. He recently reprised his role as Rod in Hot Lunch Apostles at La MaMa in New York. Finally, he last appeared as Escalus in Measure for Measure in Washington at the Shakespeare Theatre of D.C.

Date:30 September 2026 .

Aleisha A. Parr is a Canadian writer, artist and entrepreneur with a Spec. Honours BFA from York University in Theatre (Ensemble Collective Creation; Playwriting) with a double minor in Psychology and Cultural Studies. Her poetry series written for and about strangers, “I Wrote You This Poem”, is published weekly on Channillo.com, and she is the author of the poetry chapbook, “What Lasts Beyond the Burning”, forthcoming in December 2020 from Nightingale & Sparrow Press.  Her creative works have been seen on stages, in galleries, and in print throughout North America over the past two decades. In her work, she seeks to explore difficult themes in an attempt to shine a necessary light into our darkest crevices.

Superior Adult Learning (formerly Program Read) has been helping adults gain essential literacy and life skills since 1987. As a not-for-profit organization, it provides one-on-one support to individuals living in the Sault Ste, Marie, Ontario area who are over the age of 19 and who want to improve their reading, writing, math, or digital skills. Through its FREE programs, the centre provides the tools that adults need to build confidence, gain independence, and secure meaningful employment. One-on-one sessions are typically held in-office and last one hour each week, between the hours of 9am and 4pm. Instructors and tutors focus on each learner’s individual needs, interests, and skills to help them achieve their goals.

Staff at Superior Adult Learning are always happy to connect with anyone interested in upgrading their reading, writing, math, financial literacy, or digital skills. Call or email today for a FREE Intake Session to start your learning journey!

TATTOO THERAPY – Horsford Tattoo Therapy Organization. Adult coloring book. The success of our programs depends on the support of our community. Donations are essential in helping us continue providing these services and expanding our reach. Every coloring book purchased, membership sold, and donation received directly supports the Compassion Program and helps us continue bringing tattoo therapy to those who need it most.

Whether you’re an artist or a writer – or a lover of the arts – we exist for you. We are here for you. We support you.

Type A Media is an independent, unfunded literary press and publishing company. We are committed to supporting Canadian culture, and we strive to pay our writers and artists in alignment with the immense value of their work. Canadian writers and artists are chronically underfunded and undervalued, but we are working to bring attention and change to this reality, and we welcome the opportunity to work with you to promote this message, alongside the extraordinary work of our talented authors.

For this reason, we ask you to join us in promoting Northern Ontario’s emerging writers and artists. Your support is critical to ensuring we are able to continue to do the very important work of crafting our part of Canada’s cultural legacy.

Date:29 September 2026 .