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March 27, 2023CBC Canada Reads: A Tense Vote Sets up a Tight Race Going Forward
We're at the halfway mark already in the 2023 edition of CBC Books' Canada Reads competition, one of the biggest literary events of the year and a potentially career-making accolade for the author of ...
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September 20, 2014Q&A with Linda Lacroix, Ceo and Head Librarian at the Lake of Bays Library in Baysville, On
Coordinates: 45.3000° N, 79.0000° W“Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually ...
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January 19, 2017Anyone Can Write, But Not Everyone Can Be a Writer
Anyone can write, but not everyone can be a writer, in the same way that anyone with a bit of money can take music lessons or try horseback riding, but landing a record deal or competing in the World ...
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June 23, 2018
Mentors & Allies 2: Meghan Bell
When I first met Meghan Bell I was immediately aware of her ability to come up with amazing project ideas. During one of my first editorial meetings at Room magazine, Meghan was chatting about this idea ...
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June 25, 2018
Mentors & Allies 3: Jónína Kirton
Everything happens for a reason. A person enters your life at a specific time, and specific place for a reason. When I met Jónína Kirton, her energy wrapped my body like a hug I had been so desperately ...
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September 29, 2021Helen Humphreys' Field Study Digs Through History Via the Connection Between People and Plants
Whether you've got a home filled with flourishing plant babies or a few bits of dried wheat in a jar, it's hard to deny the power of plants have to effect our mood and surroundings. Field Study: Meditations ...
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July 07, 2016How to Plan a Book Tour
As grateful as I am for the vast reach that the internet provides artists, every time I tour I am reminded of the value of real life human connection and interaction. Being able to travel with my art ...
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September 23, 2021
Hydra/Hyphae and Vampirism
“Simplicity is a mode of being in the world available to those enmeshed in white structures of feeling. Simplicity is an affect that motors the cultural imaginary of whiteness, an interpretive strategy." ...
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November 15, 2017Randle W. Nelsen on Universities' Role in Maintaining Inequality & the Problematic Corporatization of Education
With tuition skyrocketing, student debt burdens burgeoning, and the market value of degrees plummeting, the role and function of universities becomes more and more tenuous. Conversations around that role ...
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July 19, 2018Scott Thornley Introduces Your New Favourite Detective Series
Lovers of mystery and detective fiction have a new a favourite to discover in Detective Superintendent MacNeice, the protagonist of Scott Thornley's Erasing Memory (House of Anansi Press). The story ...
