Murray Wood: When fishing trips really are about fishing
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Niigaan Sinclair, Jordan Abel win Governor General's Literary Awards
When Niigaan Sinclair pitched his collection of articles to a Toronto publisher, he was told "Wnipk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre" was a "regional book." The Winnipeg-based Anishinaabe ...
Nov 13, 2024
Lawyer for family members of Pickton's victims wants copy of killer's 'tell all book'
VANCOUVER - A Vancouver lawyer representing families of the victims of serial killer Robert Pickton says he and his clients want to read a copy of a "tell all book" seized from Pickton's cell after he...
Oct 18, 2024
Cundill History Prize finalists include books on early North America, post-WWII Japan
Books about the civilizations of pre-colonial Indigenous North America, the early Black civil rights movement and post-Second World War Japan are finalists for the US$75,000 Cundill History Prize. The...
Oct 03, 2024
M.G. Vassanji among finalists for Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
TORONTO - Celebrated novelist M.G. Vassanji's exploration of the emigrant experience is among the finalists for the $60,000 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy. The Writers' Trust of Canada announced th...
Oct 02, 2024
Gap between richest and the rest creates a land of disappointed citizens: economist
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia economist Lars Osberg's latest book on the widening gap between the very richest and the rest argues the trend is creating disappointed Canadians prone to distrusting one another...
Sep 25, 2024
Carol Off wants her new book about divisive language to eventually become irrelevant
TORONTO - Carol Off hopes her latest book will become irrelevant as the years pass. She fears it will not. The journalist's new book, "At a Loss for Words," published Tuesday by Random House Canada, e...
Sep 06, 2024
Investigative journalist Stevie Cameron dies at home in Toronto, age 80
An investigative journalist who authored books that tackled topics ranging from a prime minister's involvement in jet purchases to the murders of women on a British Columbia pig farm has died. Stevie ...
Sep 01, 2024
Japanese Canadian paper, pillar for community during war, saved from digital oblivion
VANCOUVER - More than eighty years ago, Japanese Canadians came together to sustain The New Canadian, the only newspaper specifically for the community that was allowed to be published through the Sec...
Aug 22, 2024
Full-day kindergarten improving reading ability of Saskatoon kids
Kenso Ahenakew is a ball of energy. While most of the seven-year-old boy's free time this summer was spent jumping on the trampoline in his backyard, he's also made time for one of his new favourite p...
Aug 21, 2024 Angel Akenahew says her son Kenso, once a struggling reader, now loves books. She attributes the change to his past enrollment in a full-day everyday Kindergarden program funded by the Saskatoon Public Schools Foundation. (Brittany Caffet/650 CKOM)
Childhood abuse survivor agency sees surge in calls since Alice Munro revelation
TORONTO - A support agency for survivors of childhood sexual abuse says it's seen a surge in calls since Alice Munro's daughter went public a month ago with her story of abuse by her stepfather. The i...
Aug 08, 2024
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