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  Sunday, 1 September 2002

 < 2:34:59 AM>.

A friend of ours was charged by a grizzly bear yesterday. He works in Kluane National Park and came across a mother and her cubs. The bear jumped on him, although for whatever reason it didn't hurt him. I think she was just trying to scare him away. She did a good job - he was pretty shaken up. [Janet Patterson's Radio Weblog]

It is just sooo cool to read about daily life in a place quite unlike one's own, particularly when the writing is this good.


 < 1:50:10 AM>.

Culling 50 years of CBC satire proves a seriously funny job space
By BRAD OSWALD
WINNIPEG -- For Allan Novak, exploring the history of satire on CBC-TV was a labour of love. And despite the seriousness with which he approached this daunting task, it definitely was a laughing matter.  FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]

 < 1:49:07 AM>.

Fall of the house of Stoddart Jack Stoddart's dream of building a Canadian publishing powerhouse has turned into a nightmare -- for writers, other publishers and booksellers, SANDRA MARTIN writes
By SANDRA MARTIN
FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]

 < 1:48:03 AM>.

A home boy, happy that way
And you thought we had no sex symbols. SARAH HAMPSON meets one, an actor who's an intriguing mix of the innocent and the world-weary
By SARAH HAMPSON

-- Move over Paul Gross. Here, in his faded jeans, zippered sweatshirt, scruffy work boots, and smoking his Camel Lights voluptuously, as though each one is a savoured, postcoital cigarette, is a Canadian sex symbol everyone in the film and television industry talks about but who seldom steps into the spotlight: the actor Roy Dupuis.  FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]




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