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Sam Rosati Martin

Sam Rosati Martin is a writer and legal worker from Toronto. He writes about cities, labour, and contemporary literature.

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Feature by Sam Rosati Martin

The Grand Ambitions and Grubby Indignities of the Aspiring Soccer Referee

Making it pro as a referee in Canada is in many ways harder than making it pro as a player. That doesn’t stop this corps of exacting, self-serious officials from trying.

Feature by Sam Rosati Martin

When Environmentalism is Weaponized Against the Unhoused

From a proposed pollinator garden at St. Stephen-in-the-Fields to tree trimmings and ‘grass remediation’—how the city uses green rhetoric to displace the homeless.

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