by Junia Joplin | May 22, 2019 | Opinion
Youth hockey is virtually a rite of passage for Canadian children. Just visit any of the country’s thousands of local arenas on a Saturday morning, and you’ll see bleary-eyed parents hauling oversized equipment bags, lacing up tiny skates and spilling coffee as they...
by Junia Joplin | Nov 16, 2018 | Opinion
It usually starts when someone detects a hint of my accent – “You’re from the States, aren’t you?” “I sure am,” I reply, proudly adding that I grew up in the mountains of western North Carolina and moved to Toronto from Richmond, Virginia. This information typically...