One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Sunday, 27 October 2002

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Canadian played command role in 'friendly fire' deaths
A Canadian officer was in charge of air controllers in Afghanistan the night American pilots mistakenly attacked and killed Canadian soldiers last April, the military confirmed Sunday. F U L L   S T O R Y
[CBC News]

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Russia tries to stem gas scandal. · 150 hostages killed by troops · Doctors denied crucial information [Guardian Unlimited]

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MacLeod celebrated at authors' fest opener

By SANDRA MARTIN

TORONTO -- Awash in sentiment -- both his own deep pools and the waves thrown back at him from the audience at the Premiere Dance Theatre on Thursday night -- Alistair MacLeod took a sip from his dram of single malt and took refuge in Wordsworth. ''Sometimes it leads me to thoughts which lie too deep for tears,'' he paraphrased before loping off the stage, leaving no doubt that he is a teacher and a scholar as well as the beloved creator of a small but vibrant literary universe in that most traditional of ''have-not'' places, Cape Breton Island.  FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]

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The Measha factor Never the diva, this hot young soprano from New Brunswick is taking fame in stride, ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN writes. She's wise enough to know the importance of protecting her instrument

By ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN

-- Measha Brueggergosman was born and raised in Fredericton and, like every Maritimer, she likes to know that the defining edge of things is not far away. She still remembers her reaction when the car carrying her to a recital date at a small Mennonite town in Manitoba passed a sign on the endless prairie marking the exact longitudinal centre of Canada.  FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]

Measha's amazing. We'll have her on another CD sometime late next year, I hope.