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2013/05/20 01:13
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Prominent Canadians back petition to rename Victoria Day CANADA — A group that includes some prominent Canadian actors, writers and politicians is calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to change...
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2013/05/19 17:21
2013/05/19 17:21
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Thousands of people witness a spectacular fireworks show to cap off the 11th annual Rotary Victoria Day Fireworks and Family Night on Saturday, May 18, 2013 at Del Crary Park in Peterborough, Ont....
2013/05/19 02:47
2013/05/19 02:47
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... has snuck The Block back into the schedule" -snuck ... SNUCK! Glad am I that I did not sneak it into my recording schedule. And so Channel Fail is going to put on a new scripted dramality...
2013/05/17 22:12
2013/05/17 22:12
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From JK Rowling's satisfaction at how the game of quidditch "infuriates men" to Ian Rankin's revelation that he originally planned to kill off Rebus at the climax of the inspector's very first outing,...
2013/05/16 21:53
2013/05/16 21:53
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Her point: Humbert Humbert was a creep, but "Lolita" didn't suffer from his lack of likability. Messud went on to list a number of other iconic characters who would make lousy friends, including...
2013/05/16 01:46
2013/05/16 01:46
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... has snuck The Block back into the schedule" -snuck ... SNUCK! Glad am I that I did not sneak it into my recording schedule. And so Channel Fail is going to put on a new scripted dramality...
2013/05/15 14:45
2013/05/15 14:45
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Hi James, can you tell us a bit about your role as head of literature and the spoken word at Southbank Centre? We stage over five hundred literature and spoken word events every year and my job is to...
2013/05/14 17:56
2013/05/14 17:56
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There are five reasons that the mainstream media and the largest alternative media websites are both pro-war. 1. Self-Censorship by Journalists Initially, there is tremendous self-censorship by...
2013/05/13 11:31
2013/05/13 11:31
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Norfolk-based magazine celebrates poetryEditor Michael Mackmin, centre, with development and special projects director, Helen Mitchell, and art director Nick Stone, from the Norfolk based poetry...
2013/05/12 14:35
2013/05/12 14:35
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Watermark Books & Cafe 1. "About Crows" by Craig Blais 2. "Meetings of Change" by Darlene Deluca 3. "Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls" by David Sedaris 4. "Midnight in Peking" by Paul French 5....
2013/05/11 19:20
2013/05/11 19:20
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Canadian poet and writer Margaret Atwood knows how to turn a phrase, how to tell a good story, and how to go for the jugular. She’s probably best known for novels like “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “Cat’s...
2013/05/10 12:40
2013/05/10 12:40
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For most women, the earliest exposure to fashion comes via Mom, the alpha and omega of feminine behaviour. We remember watching her dress, coveting her Pucci handbag. We recall shadowing her in the...
2013/05/10 05:06
2013/05/10 05:06
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GUELPH — Forty years is a long time for any business to survive and Doug and Barb Minett can’t quite believe theirs, The Bookshelf, is hitting the 40-year mark. They also can’t quite believe they are...
2013/05/09 23:39
2013/05/09 23:39
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The Rock Mom: The Rock Mom continues to claim her own creative space even after her kids are born. Exemplars include Gwen Stefani, left, Jane Birkin and Patti Smith. The Public Mom: Affecting an...
2013/05/07 14:03
2013/05/07 14:03
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The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. According to a report in The Guardian, Sigmund Freud's famous couch has fallen into disrepair, and the Freud Museum...
2013/05/06 19:06
2013/05/06 19:06
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While the Roselawn Centre was packed one recent Thursday night with people listening to retired Canadian broadcaster Lloyd Robertson speak at the Canadian Authors Reading Series, most other nights the...
2013/05/04 10:09
2013/05/04 10:09
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Referring to a “silly” joke about a family member, Fever Pitch author Nick Hornby advises his reader to “ask yourself whether you’d make the same joke if you knew a million people were going to read...
2013/05/03 12:28
2013/05/03 12:28
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One of the most common criticisms of a literary prize is that it is prejudiced. The Nobel Prize is said to be prejudiced against America, the Booker has been accused of dismissing "genre fiction" and...
2013/05/03 12:00
2013/05/03 12:00
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Three stories show women surviving and becoming one with the wilderness Scott O’Dell’s Island Of The Blue Dolphins, which was read by American schoolchildren for decades and perhaps still is, was...
2013/05/03 02:08
2013/05/03 02:08
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Once a year, school librarian Bobi Kress trades her room filled with hundreds of books for a spot on a sidewalk with an armload of good stuff to read. That special day was April 23, and her location,...