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Sep.06.2011
2011 Giller longlist a wide open field
by Stuartt Woods
A sure sign the fall literary season is underway, the Scotiabank Giller Prize has announced its first round of nominees for 2011. The 17-title longlist – the largest since the prize began announcing it in 2006 – pits newcomers (...
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Aug.31.2011
"The hunchback of Notre Dame with a Rastafarian haircut. Cute," Belle Palmer observed as a six-pound bundle of coppery fur with a woolly chest squirrelled past, leaped to pose standing on thin, shaved legs on a rocky outcrop, and then sprang...
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Aug.27.2011
Jack Layton remembered for 'his convictions and his courage'
State funeral honours late NDP leader
By Tobi Cohen and Linda Nguyen
TORONTO — Jack Layton was remembered Saturday for his determined vision of "a more inclusive and...
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Aug.08.2011
Canadian Culinary Book Awards 2011This is for all the bedtime cookbook readers out there. And I know you exist! Here are many of the nominees on this year's Canadian Culinary Book Awards list. Closest to home is Flavours of Prince Edward Island: a culinaryjourney by Jeff McCourt, Allan William...
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Aug.02.2011
To everything there is a season. Add to that environment, weather, and serendipity. Think you’ve seen everything in your wild neighbourhood? I doubt it.
As an author who respects setting, as I wrote my fiction, I became a keen observer of nature in some highly opposite places, from...
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Aug.01.2011
If it is good enough for William and Kate, it's good enough for me. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge sailed over night between Montreal and Quebec City during their Canadian tour on the Canadian frigate, the HMCS Montréal . This ship is open for tours today in Halifax, and I plan to go. Since my...
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Jul.28.2011
Czech Holocaust story makes Man Booker longlist by Michael Stein© House of Anansi Press"Far to Go" by Alsion Pick is among the 13 titles on the Booker longlist
A Canadian author who recently learned of her Jewish heritage and the fact that her grandparents escaped from...
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Jul.26.2011
Canadian Book Sales Down in Q1 By Leigh Anne Williams
Sales of print books in Canada dropped dramatically in the first quarter of 2011 compared to the first quarter of 2010, according to new figures from BookNet Canada. Overall, the market was down 10.9% in units sold and by 10.8% in terms of...
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Jul.10.2011
Photo: Ashkelon, re-found Roman statue, standing along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea
Always wanted to say something like this. On a fellow's blog, about patriotism, July 4th, etc., I finally got my chance:
"Patriotism" is a huge turnoff to me, and in reality--not to mention...
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Jul.01.2011
Well, I just go the notification from the publisher that my sci-fi novella, The Clean Slate Accord is now available at the Apple stores in: Apple US, Apple UK, Apple France, Apple Germany, Apple Australia, Apple Canada due to Apple installing some new software that uploads e-books quickly from the...
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