Yearly Archives: 2008

Family news: Shannon Cowan’s novel short-listed

Shannon Cowan’s Young Adult novel, Tin Angel (978-1-897073-68-1), has been Shortlisted for the Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People. This award, which was established in 1988 in memory of the respected historian and … Continue reading

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Review: I Claudia by Kristen Thomson

When I see the dreaded words, “This show has no intermission” outside the auditorium, my heart sinks as I begin having second thoughts about making the hour-plus drive from Cornwall to Ottawa, dropping a hundred dollars and change on dinner … Continue reading

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Deadly Ignorance

Harper thinks the arts are practised by rich farts who drive in limousines to galas most obscene. He doesn’t realize the arts are little guys and girls of every station who work across this nation at jobs for minimum wage … Continue reading

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