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The Substack Octopus

Laurence Miall

Writing about Edmonton’s past, present, and contradictions. I publish deeply researched essays and interviews with Edmonton's leading voices. New posts every week.

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Skinamarink and the Year 1995 Revisited

[WARNING: Today’s post contains spoilers of the film, Skinamarink, which premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal in July 2022 and subsequently had a theatrical release across North America. We’re obviously well past the movie’s ...

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Once People Know, It's Hard to Keep It Bottled Up

The Shadow City Interviews are part of a larger project, Who’s Afraid of Edmonton?, in which, together with long-time residents, I explore the good, the bad, the ugly — and the sacred — in the city.

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That "Boiler Room" Controversy

Forty-one years have passed since Mordecai Richler published his infamous article in the New York Times in which he described Edmonton, the northernmost large metropolis on this continent, as Canada’s “boiler room.” Some cursory googling sh...

15 days ago
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It Feels like God and the Universe Does Not Want Us to Mess Around With That

In 2016, a master's student published a book chapter that described her hometown of Edmonton as a “shadow city” (reference below). She wrote that Edmonton was marginalized from Canada's national conversation while simultaneously carrying th...

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  • Laurence Miall

    I am the author of BLIND SPOT (NeWest Press), contributor to JACOBIN and ALBERTA VIEWS. Currently working on WHO'S AFRAID OF EDMONTON?

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