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Join us for Broadview Live on Monday, May 4
What makes a place feel like home and what happens when we lose one? United Church minister and Broadview contributor Christopher White will speak with journalist Jessica Barrett, author of No Place Like Home: The Missing Key to Our Housing Crisis, about rising costs and community-led solutions. He also sits down with Valerie Howes to discuss the complex grief explored in her Broadview essay Anatomy of a Goodbye, from the May/June 2026 issue.
Jessica Barrett is an award-winning Canadian journalist and author of No Place Like Home: The Missing Key to Our Housing Crisis. Her work on housing affordability has earned multiple honours, including the Jack Webster Foundation’s City Mic Award. Now based in Calgary, her writing blends memoir and reporting to explore housing, community, and what it means to feel at home. She sat down with Broadview for a one-on-one interview about Canada’s housing crisis, and how housing has increasingly become treated as a financial asset — eroding people’s ability to find stability, belonging, and a sense of “home.”
Valerie Howes is a writer, editor, and photographer. Raised in Scotland and now living in Prince Edward County, Ontario, she loves spending time with her kids, cats, and dogs — especially in nature. Her award-winning work has appeared in publications including BBC News, The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star. In her essay for Broadview’s May/June 2026 issue, she reflects on her mother’s final wish to donate her body to science and the unexpected grief that followed.
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