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Best Host

Outside Laura Dawe’s North Street house there’s a chalkboard, livening the neighbourhood with the regular truisms she writes upon it. “Someone described it as analogue Facebook updates,” says the Edmonton-born, Ontario-bred, fourth-year Dalhouse student. The “community outreach” started with Dawe collecting plastic figures to create a shrine, a plastic garden of sorts out front. “People […]

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Laura Dawe’s direction

The year is 2011. Due to war in the Middle East, the world’s demand for oil has never been greater. Unemployment rates have reached a high not seen since the Great Depression. The economic apocalypse is nigh. Painter and her boyfriend Michael escape in an old blue station wagon to an isolated house in the […]

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