Our ties to places we call home can cause us joy and pain, and while there are plenty of Canadians who are away from home, missing home, or calling a new place their homes, Noah spoke to two young Indigenous artists about their ideas of home. Dale Alexis, a Cree man from the Enoch Cree Nation outside Edmonton, and Hunter Cardinal, of American Jewish and Cree descent, both decided to leave the metropolis and the burgeoning success they were enjoying here. With a special interview and reading by Griffin Poetry Prize winner Billy-Ray Belcourt.
Pivot, an eight-part podcast series I hosted for The Walrus magazine, looked at that extraordinary moment most of us (all of us?) eventually face, typically but not always in the latter part of our lives, when circumstances compel us to reimagine ourselves; when we must tack to go forward: the dancer time decrees must move on; the actor who discovers his indigenous heritage; the man who elects to shoot himself and end his life but mucks it up and wakes up half an hour later ...