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CNQ Issue #116 (Fall 2026/Winter 2027)

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Contents

Editorial

• The Power of Story by Dan Wells

Features

• Paper Trail: Quebec’s Sovereign Press vs. Canada’s Corporate Colony by Mélissa Bull
• Writing in the Age of Reader Metrics: Is Substack Changing the Way We Write? by Lydia Perović
• What’s In the Box?: A Hingston & Olsen Retrospective by Michael Hingston
• Remembering Elaine Dewar as a Friend and Investigative Journalist by Marci McDonald
• The Action is the Juice: Studied Views on a Rupturing Culture by Alex Pugsley
• The God of the Economy is a Human Creation: 2026 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize Acceptance Speech by Maggie Helwig

The Pigheaded Soul

• #3 by Jason Guriel

Reviews

• Richard Stursberg’s Lament for a Literature by Stephen Henighan
• Sharon Bala’s Good Guys by Dory Cerny
• Kim Fu’s The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts by Brett Josef Grubisic
• Patmeena Sabit’s Good People by Kerry Clare
• Aoife Josie Clements’s Persona by Stacey May Fowles
• Richard Thornton’s Two Songs: Selected Poems 2000–2025 by Catherine Owen
• Judith Thompson’s In Crow’s Field by Laurel Smith
• Nyla Matuk’s Leila and Khaled by Shazia Hafiz Ramji