Men at Work and Play: Trending Sports Podcast (TSP)
Trending Sports Podcast (TSP) was created in 2025 by Montreal sports fans Gian-Carlo Albertson, 25 – a former junior hockey player, James De Sua, 23 – a former hockey goaltender, and Westley (Wes) Ruggi, 25 – a hockey referee. With 10,000 followers on Instagram and YouTube, 38,000 on TikTok, and 100,000 on Facebook in the year since its launch, TSP has exploded onto social media. How did the whole thing start? Gian-Carlo and Westley are childhood friends, and sports have always been a huge part of their lives. Whether they were watching games together, debating the latest trades, or arguing…
Mathematics as an Alien Language: In Conversation with Anthony Bonato
Anthony Bonato is a mathematician and professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, where he studies the…
Thirty Millilitres of Italy
Espresso is the country's most successfully exported word, and its most misunderstood ritual. Notes from…
When I was in grade eleven at St…
On June 2 of this year, Italy celebrated…
Italian-Canadian Writers Gather in Italy…
A long-held dream was finally…
Calabrian-Style Stuffed Eggplants: The Flavours that Tell Our Story
Many of us think of late summer and early fall as tomato-sauce-making season. But this…
Family and Complicated Yearning in Maria Giura’s If We Still Lived Where I Was Born
Maria Giura followed her first collection of poems, What My Father Taught Me (Bordighera Press,…
Darlene Madott’s Closing Ceremonies and Dying Times: A Review
Closing Ceremonies and Dying Times (Guernica Editions, 2026; 300 pp), the latest title from Darlene…
Family and Complicated Yearning in Maria Giura’s If We Still Lived Where I Was Born
Maria Giura followed her first collection of poems, What My Father Taught Me (Bordighera Press, 2018), with her memoir, Celibate…
A Review of Diane Pacitti’s Between Two States: An Italo-Scots Story
Between Two States: An Italo-Scots Story (Troubador, 2025; 359 pp) is Diane Pacitti’s novelistic treatment of her husband, artist Antonio…
Guy Rodgers’ New Book Chooses Not to Forget
What We Choose to Forget (2026) documents the third leg of a personal journey of discovery by Guy Rodgers, a…
Mathematics as an Alien Language: In Conversation with Anthony Bonato
Anthony Bonato is a mathematician and professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, where he studies the networks that govern how we…
Between Two Languages: In Conversation with Francesca Favaro
Francesca Favaro is the author of the short story collection La lettrice, published in a self-contained parallel English edition, translated…
Love All People: In Conversation with Frank Cardinal Leo, Archbishop of Toronto
Frank Cardinal Leo was ordained as a priest in 1996. He was consecrated as Auxiliary Bishop of Montreal, the city…
The Lion of Zoppas
On the morning of September 2, 1965, four young Italian cyclists lined up in Lasarte, a small town near San…
The Disappearance and Presence of Federico Caffè: Two Mysteries and… a Silver Coffee Bean
On the night of April 14-15, 1987, Federico Caffè left his flat in the Monte Mario hill of Rome. On…
Gino Quilico, the Man and the Artist
In her new book, An Opera in Three Acts Starring Gino Quilico (LLP, 2022), Connie Guzzo McParland chronicles the lives…
Italian Villas in The English Patient and other Canadian Literary Works
When I was in grade eleven at St Michaels College School in Toronto, one of our assignments in English class…
Seeing Sicily: A Circular Meditation on Light, Myth, and Memory
A long-held dream was finally coming to fruition, to follow the edge of Sicily, to trace the line where land…
Rome Beckons Me Back
The first time I visited Rome, I was nine years old. Throughout the year, my mother would save enough money…
What Italy Meant to Them: English Grand Tour Travelers and Charles Dickens
Upper-class Europeans and North Americans have always ranked Italy at the top of their cultural register. Believing that Italy was…
Remembering the Italian-Canadian Women of the Internment
In June 1940, at the outbreak of World War II, Italy declared war on Great Britain. At the time, Canada…
A Century of Women’s Leadership in Montreal’s Italian Community
Montreal has long served as a hub for Italian immigration to Canada, fostering a diverse and resilient community shaped by…
Giving Ethnocultural Studies a Digital Future
The historiography of Canada’s ethnocultural communities has developed largely over the past 60 years and individual community histories continue to…
The Roncarelli Case: Defiance in the Pursuit of Justice
In 1946, Montreal restaurateur Frank Roncarelli, an Italian immigrant from Bologna, did the unimaginable – he sued the most powerful…
Calabrian-Style Stuffed Eggplants: The Flavours that Tell Our Story
Many of us think of late summer and early fall as tomato-sauce-making season. But this time of year also elicits…
About Immigrants and Education in Quebec: Another Conversation with Guy Rex Rodgers
Guy Rex Rodgers is the writer and director of a series of documentary films that explore the impact of non-Francophone…
Tribute to an Italian Soldier, 1942
During World War II, many Italian soldiers captured by the British in North Africa were sent to different countries in…
Busting a Myth About Immigrants and Education in Quebec: In Conversation with Guy Rex Rodgers
Guy Rex Rodgers is the producer, writer, director and narrator of a series of documentary films that explores the impact…
Thirty Millilitres of Italy
Espresso is the country's most successfully exported word, and its most misunderstood ritual. Notes from the import side. At twenty…
My Mother’s Terracotta Vase: from Calabria to London via Rome
The three of them looked sad and forlorn hiding behind the washing machine in her kitchen terrace. But even in…
Calabrese Nacatole: Byzantine Delights for the Holiday Season
As the festive season approaches, I think of my mom and her enigmatic smile, and how she diligently and lovingly…
Holiday Memories
Our holiday celebrations always began with Italian Christmas Eve fare: fish and seafood, and our regional specialty of polenta e baccalà. Around…
A Celebration of Italian-Canadian Writing
Italian-Canadian Writers Gather in Italy for Biennial Conference More than 80 speakers and participants from across Canada, Italy, the United…
Five Poets Breaking Into Song: A Photographic Essay
SPECIAL TO ACCENTI Glimpses of George Elliott Clarke’s Song-Commissioning Project The Eighteenth Edition of “Five Poets Breaking into Song,” (a.k.a.…
A Celebration of Creativity at AccentiFest 2025
From June 26 to 28, 2025, the city of Charlottetown played host to the Accenti Magazine International Festival of the…
A Celebration of Italian-Canadian Voices
More than sixty writers of Italian heritage presented their work at the 19th Biennial Conference of the Association of Italian-Canadian…