Uniacke Square is a low-income housing development with only one through-road. Turn down Uniacke Street—which stretches from Gottingen to Brunswick—and almost immediately you’ll notice unpainted plywood, like punched-in teeth, covering the street-level windows and front doors of two brown-brick townhouses. Look a little higher and farther down the street to see shards of glass where […]
Lis van Berkel
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Check up
Sania Dorey collects breakfast trays, makes beds, stocks supplies and delivers mail at the South Shore Hospital because she’s been told she’s over-qualified to be paid to do anything in a Nova Scotia hospital. Dorey and Heizer Marval, another physician who volunteers, are from opposite sides of the world—Russia and Venezuela—but both belong to a […]
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Cat came back
On Monday morning, when things have finally calmed down, I decide to focus on the fence in the backyard that fell during the hurricane. We’re lucky the fence didn’t kill anyone, for it was broken before Sunday’s storm. Most things half-broken then broke completely. Including, it turns out, my relations with the dogs living on […]