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Rock on! Even I'm watching some games this year. I think the Olympics got me back into it. But the fact that a Canadian team has made it this far give me something to tune in for. Since that Canadian team is the Leafs, it's impossible to avoid it here in TO.  < 4:23:28 PM>.More farmers leaving the land 
There are fewer people farming in Canada according to the latest figures from Statistics Canada. Though there were almost 247,000 farms in the country last year, that's down more than 10 per cent from the 1996 census. [CBC News] The family farm is dying. Sad but true. And probably for the best from an efficiency/business point of view. < 1:17:08 AM>.America's forgotten French Canadians rise again Newly translated novel sheds light on Canucks who fought in the Civil War
CONCORD, N.H. -- The U.S. Civil War attracted tens of thousands of fighters from Canada, a largely overlooked chapter of Franco-American history.Now, the battlefield exploits of one underage fighter who endured the final bloody months of the war have been published in English for the first time, offering new insights to historians, Civil War buffs and Franco-Americans whose ancestors brought their culture to the United States. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts] |
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