Paul Gallant

Still More Stubborn Stars follows the story of Roger, a hapless but enthusiastic Come-from-Away who, arriving in Prince Edward Island with his family as a child, struggles to figure out the ‘Island’ way of life.

For a fee, companies will tackle damaging search results. But is the new economy of digital makeovers making things worse?

In the mid 20th century, Detroit, Michigan, was among the biggest and wealthiest cities in the United States, powered mostly by the automotive industry—yeah, it’s a very butch way to get rich.
But since the 1960s, the Motor City’s population has slipped from almost two million people to about 630,000, prompting critics and boosters alike to obsess about its various declines and rebirths. Detroit has been grappling with its loss of status, and what its future should be, for almost 75 years now...

Cool is in the eye of the beholder. But for us, cool is something that’s not cookie cutter. A place that has a sense of style in its décor, its music and its entertainment programming. Not necessarily trendy, but with some attention paid to shaping the space.
A venue where the crowd has a real vibe—you get who these people are and you suspect everyone there has a story to tell. A little bit of an edge … but inclusive.
Cool is, of course, what many monthly queer club nights are providing these...

05 February 2024
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In anticipation of his new graphic memoir, I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together, the prolific artist and illustrator sits down with IN Magazine…
By Paul Gallant
I first encountered Maurice Vellekoop in 1997 at the height of his fame as a comic artist and illustrator for prestigious magazines like The New Yorker, Time, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Vanity Fair and Vogue – titles that, if you’re over a certain age, will make you go “wow.”
That week I had just devoured the...

Portugal’s second-biggest city has a labyrinthine charm: streets snaking capriciously upwards from the shores of the Douro River, 18th- and 19th-century buildings lined up like colourful book spines, plazas popping up where the rolling landscape allows, churches and monuments capping steep hills. While Lisbon sprawls, sometimes exhausting visitors with its gorgeous but scattered neighbourhoods, Porto squashes the best of itself into a walkable, if aerobicizing, jewel box. This is a city to wa...

How comedian Gina Yashere, once shy about being out, became a Hollywood powerhouse with a little help from “Bob ❤️ Abishola”

An interview with the Nigerian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto…
“There are things I’m shy about, but no, I’m not shy,” the artist Oluseye Ogunlesi tells me. We’re on the phone while Ogunlesi is at a fabricator’s warehouse in Orangeville, Ont., where, a few minutes after our conversation, he’ll be using a flame-thrower to blacken the wooden frame of his latest artwork.
I had mentioned to Ogunlesi that not only does he use himself as a model in many of his photographic works,...

In his memoir “Permanent Astonishment,” Highway celebrates life in the Canadian North in the 1950s and ’60s.

From Rio to Mykonos, insiders share tips and tricks to have the time of your life queering it up on the sand.

Prescription for Resilience: Coping with COVID is a special series of stories presented by CBC Radio One’s White Coat, Black Art. Canadians share what they have done to cope and where they have found resilience in their daily lives. I worked as a writer who turned audio-oriented interviews into text-based stories for the web.

The woman who organized Vancouver’s anti-lockdown protests in April wasn’t worried about catching COVID-19 from the small group that attended. That’s because Susan Standfield doesn’t think the virus is deadly for the average person. She holds this belief despite the fact that, by the day of her third protest, more than 150,000 people had died of the disease worldwide, eighty-six of them in British Columbia.
She says it’s a fabricated pandemic “that’s really orchestrated, in large part, by the...

Even by the boosterish standards of real estate prose, Real Estate Market Outlook 2020 Canada sounds cocky. “Record-setting performances have become ubiquitous in Canadian commercial real estate,” reads the February 24 report, released by CBRE. “Further rental rate increases appear to be unavoidable amid record-low vacancy and strong demand.”
Within the next month, every province and territory in Canada had declared some form of emergency, with the pandemic turning main streets, malls, and of...

July-August 2020
Have we arrived at the moment when we need to seriously consider deceleration?
In Margaret Atwood’s novel The Year of the Flood, an outcast religious group called God’s Gardeners prepares for a pandemic by following a belief system based on pared-down consumerism coupled with kindness toward both human and non-human life. “They view us as twisted fanatics who combine food extremism with bad fashion sense and a puritanical attitude toward shopping,” their leader tells a newcom...