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By SANDRA MARTIN
-- Guy Vanderhaeghe is like a tree standing tall on the prairie -- solid, dependable, solitary. Dependable does not mean dull.For two decades and seven books of fiction, he's been a literary landmark against which other writers have measured themselves. His new novel, The Last Crossing, is a page-turner of a western that abounds with brawls, battles, booze and babes. It begins with the rape and murder of a young girl and ends with the last and probably the largest Indian battle in the Canadian Northwest, a bloody engagement in October, 1870, in the coulees of what was then called the Belly River. But The Last Crossing is more than a gripping read. It is a serious and layered novel about our deep, human fault lines around gender, race, class and the past. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]
By GAYLE MACDONALD Lots o' Canucks in that show.  < 5:47:50 PM>.Snow in Edmonton - but still our ground is bare. We're all taking bets on whether we can make it to Halloween without any of the white stuff. Never in my time here in the Yukon (since 1984) have we had a green Halloween. [Janet's Radio Weblog] < 2:50:02 AM>.The Post-Dutoit Montreal Symphony Visits Carnegie Hall. When the Montreal Symphony Orchestra visited Carnegie Hall on Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon, it brought two conductors. By Allan Kozinn. [New York Times: Arts] < 2:38:19 AM>.Refugee advocates say they'll resurrect underground railroad 
Some refugee advocates in Canada say they'll defy the law and become people smugglers if Canada puts into effect its new 'safe third country' agreement with the United States. [CBC News] < 1:57:51 AM>.The first casualty of the cold wars
By DAVID MACFARLANE -- The cold season is upon me once again. And it doesn't feel as if it plans on getting off. I am shivering, wheezing, hacking, snuffling, coughing. I am (barn door; horse) downing echinacea like there's no tomorrow. And if tomorrow feels anything like today, having none of it would be just fine by me. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts] Funny. I woke up with a cold myself this morning. Sigh. |
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