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April 18, 2022Treaty Parchments, and what I'm looking for when I look in the archive
In the summer of 2019, I was searching through library collections globally to track down copies of parchments of the Numbered Treaties. These copies were produced sometime between the mid 1870s and the ...
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October 25, 2017St. Catharines Festival of Readers Ramps Up Literary Engagement in Niagara Region
From November 3rd to 5th, The Festival of Readers: St. Catharines will bring acclaimed Canadian authors to the vibrant Niagara region. With guest authors including Tomson Highway, Kevin Sylvester, and ...
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September 29, 2015Booking Up: with Big, Big Names at No, No Prices, Appel Salon Events Are Filling up Fast
As summer span slowly towards fall, and as book people gathered to talk about the heavy calendar that lay ahead, a new literary lineup was among the topics under discussion. The Bram and Bluma Appel Salon ...
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March 27, 2014
The Proust Questionnaire, with Barry Dempster
Barry Dempster is a poet, novelist, short fiction writer, children's writer and an editor, and is Open Book: Toronto's April 2014 Writer-in-Residence.Stay tuned throughout the month to hear from Barry ...
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November 03, 2022The Writers' Trust Honours Seven Writers with $270,000 in Prizes, Including Debut Authors francesca ekwuyasi & Nicholas Herring
Yesterday evening in Toronto, the Writers' Trust of Canada hosted publishers, writers, industry professionals, and book lovers to celebrate the best writing in Canada published in the past year. The charity ...
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January 25, 2023CBC Announces a Panelist Line Up Studded with TV & Social Media Stars for Canada Reads 2023
It's one of the first signs for book lovers in Canada that spring is around the corner – CBC Books has announced its line up of celebrity panelists and the books they've chosen to defend in the upcoming ...
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June 02, 2025Three Emerging Writers Win the 2025 Bronwen Wallace Awards
This evening at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, three Bronwen Wallace Awards were handed out to some exciting emerging authors, in the categories of short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Capping ...
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March 29, 2022CBC Canada Reads Day Two Recap: Just One Book Has Received No Elimination Votes At All So Far
Day Two of CBC Canada Reads 2022 has now wrapped, with just three books remaining to vie for the crown during the final two debates tomorrow and Thursday respectively.As the now-seasoned panelists settled ...
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September 27, 2017
Unsung Heroes of Literature: The Dash Brothers Are F— — — ing Nuts
The only appropriate adjective to describe the bar where the Dashes agreed to meet me for this interview is ‘dive.’ We met in the middle of the afternoon, at The Maple Leaf Tavern, a bar in the east-end ...
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December 22, 2016On Writing, with Tim McCaskell
Tim McCaskell drew on decades of experience as an activist to write Queer Progress: From Homophobia to Homonationalism (Between the Lines Books), which explores both the progress of LGBTQ activism and ...
