Félix Rose’s The Battle of Saint-Léonard: A Problematic Portrayal of Montreal’s Italian Community
Cinema

Félix Rose’s The Battle of Saint-Léonard: A Problematic Portrayal of Montreal’s Italian Community

Félix Rose’s new documentary, La bataille de Saint-Léonard (The Battle of Saint-Léonard), chronicles the language and education protests of the late 1960s that made national headlines for many months. What began as a local dispute soon exploded into a wider political conflict that demanded the intervention of both the provincial…

Love All People: In Conversation with Frank Cardinal Leo, Archbishop of Toronto
In Case You Missed It, Interviews

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…

“I’ve Been Writing this Poem for Centuries”: A Review of Tina Biello’s The Weight of Survival
Books

“I’ve Been Writing this Poem for Centuries”: A Review of Tina Biello’s The Weight of Survival

In the acknowledgements of her most recent book, Tina Biello thanks her “parents and ancestors…

Love All People: In Conversation with Frank Cardinal Leo, Archbishop of Toronto
In Case You Missed It, Interviews

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…

Echoes of the Troubadour: A Review of In a Cage of Sunlight: The Works of Joseph Maviglia, Selected and New
Reviews

Echoes of the Troubadour: A Review of In a Cage of Sunlight: The Works of Joseph Maviglia, Selected and New

Joseph Maviglia’s debut verse collection, Movietown, appeared in 1989, 36 years ago. That was only…

The Worst Performer
Poetry

The Worst Performer

Sometimes, I, the great pretender, In the mirror, late at night, Think about the quirks…

Echoes of the Troubadour: A Review of In a Cage of Sunlight: The Works of Joseph Maviglia, Selected and New

Echoes of the Troubadour: A Review of In a Cage of Sunlight: The Works of Joseph Maviglia, Selected and New

Joseph Maviglia’s debut verse collection, Movietown, appeared in 1989, 36 years ago. That was only the start of a rhapsodic…

In Laura’s Uncovering, John Calabro Weaves a Tale of Two Eras

In Laura’s Uncovering, John Calabro Weaves a Tale of Two Eras

In Laura’s Uncovering (Ekstasis 2024), Toronto author John Calabro has crafted a historical romance set in two different eras, with…

Love and War in Genni Gunn’s The Cipher

Love and War in Genni Gunn’s The Cipher

With The Cipher (Signature Editions 2024, 239 p.), Genni Gunn has written a masterful work that captures the sacrifices of…

Love All People: In Conversation with Frank Cardinal Leo, Archbishop of Toronto

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…

Creating a Future: Artist Mauro Balletti Reflects on Five Decades with Pop Icon Mina

Creating a Future: Artist Mauro Balletti Reflects on Five Decades with Pop Icon Mina

In a rare and intimate interview with Elio Iannacci, visual artist Mauro Balletti reflects on his five-decade-plus collaboration with Mina—the…

Mickey & Joe: Good. Bad. Ugly. Dirty: In Conversation with Michaela Di Cesare

Mickey & Joe: Good. Bad. Ugly. Dirty: In Conversation with Michaela Di Cesare

Mickey & Joe: Good. Bad. Ugly. Dirty is having its world premiere in Montreal from May 17 to 25, 2025.…

Gino Quilico, the  Man and the Artist

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…

At a Loss – The Science and Art of Being a Hairstylist

At a Loss – The Science and Art of Being a Hairstylist

Victor DiBenedetto has spent a lifetime discreetly making his customers look and feel their best. For nearly five decades, the…

But For Now We Stay Home

But For Now We Stay Home

For our mammas! Francesca LoDico’s radio special, "But For Now We Stay Home,” is about her mamma coping with the…

To Market, To Market – the Mercato Experience in Italy

To Market, To Market – the Mercato Experience in Italy

The Mercato is an Italian tradition that goes back centuries. Once a week, travelling vendors come to town, set up…

Where Italy’s Most Famous Are Buried

Where Italy’s Most Famous Are Buried

Every year millions of tourists visit the city of Florence and flock to the Uffizi Gallery for its extraordinary collection…

Dining With the Gods – A Travel Essay

Dining With the Gods – A Travel Essay

After almost half a century living in Toronto’s Little Italy, I make a return journey to the place where I…

Ottawa’s “Village”

Ottawa’s “Village”

Cars, trucks, and heavy transports bustle down the busy thoroughfare known as Preston Street. A vital link between the city…

A Century of Women’s Leadership in Montreal’s Italian Community

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

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

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…

Fascism, Anti-Semitism, and the Italian Novel in California

Fascism, Anti-Semitism, and the Italian Novel in California

As Italian Liberation Day approaches every April 25th, the editorial pages of Italy’s national newspapers reignite the national discourse over…

Tribute to an Italian Soldier, 1942

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

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…

The Growing Movement to Save the Sicilian Language

The Growing Movement to Save the Sicilian Language

Something big is unfolding in Sicily, and no, it’s not a new season of White Lotus. There is a saying…

Looming

Looming

“When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home but also to reach to the…

My Mother’s Terracotta Vase: from Calabria to London via Rome

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

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

Holiday Memories

Our holiday celebrations always began with Italian Christmas Eve fare: fish and seafood, and our regional specialty of polenta e baccalà. Around…

Mushrooms Like Paper-Thin Memories

Mushrooms Like Paper-Thin Memories

Evenings on Prince Edward Island already smell like autumn. On the boardwalk at the end of each day the air…

A Celebration of Creativity at AccentiFest 2025

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

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…

Fallen Workers: How the Italian Community Found Its Voice Through Tragedy

Fallen Workers: How the Italian Community Found Its Voice Through Tragedy

International Day of Mourning takes place on April 28th to remember workers killed or injured in the workplace. At Toronto's…

Italian-Canadian Writers Gather in Torino for Biennial Conference

Italian-Canadian Writers Gather in Torino for Biennial Conference

The Association of Italian-Canadian Writers (AICW) held its biennial conference at the University of Torino, in Torino, Italy, from September…