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Music programmes.  < 11:10:19 PM>.Ashcroft says no special status for Canadians entering U.S. 
Canadian citizens crossing the border into the U.S. should not expect any special treatment, according to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft. He says every country in the world will be screened by the same new, strict standards. [CBC News] < 11:09:20 PM>.PM threatened to call election to bring caucus into line 
CBC News has learned that two days ago, at the Liberal cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien threatened to call an election, if he found it too difficult to govern. [CBC News] < 9:27:22 PM>.Stop and search bias revealed. UK latest: Black people are eight times more likely to be stopped by police than white people, figures show. [Guardian Unlimited] So it's not just Toronto? Or the US border? < 5:06:22 PM>.Ashcroft says border controls not based on race
The United States is not using an individual's birthplace alone as a trigger for extensive border checks, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursday. [CBC News] < 3:45:04 PM>."The Spinster and the Prophet" by A.B. McKillop. In the 1920s, judges ridiculed a Canadian woman who said H.G. Wells plagiarized her book, but a modern scholar finds her case convincing. [Salon.com] < 3:39:34 PM>.Storm lashes Nova Scotia
Parts of Nova Scotia were snowed in Thursday morning after an overnight storm dumped as much as 30 centimetres of snow on some regions of the province. [CBC News] Sounds like fun! Mom's down there now with Amber and family. I bet the kids were home from school today. < 1:11:26 AM>.For Canada's Top Novelists, Being Born Abroad Helps. A good many if not a majority of the leading lights of Canadian letters today are immigrants, including the three finalists for the Booker Prize this year. By Clifford Krauss. [New York Times: Arts] < 1:00:47 AM>.It's finally happened. As I sit here writing this, it is snowing outside. [Janet's Radio Weblog] So let's just be sure I've got this right. It snowed in Toronto (last Friday) before it snowed in Whitehorse?! < 12:12:35 AM>.Breaking the silence After surviving 'one war, two exiles and a death,' Montreal playwright and novelist Wajdi Mouawad has stories to tell
By KATE TAYLOR
-- For an artist who is setting the Quebec cultural scene on fire, Wajdi Mouawad is surprisingly soft-spoken. If the 34-year-old Montreal playwright, director and now novelist can sound furiously angry in his public pronouncements, if the central character in his plays is often the confused and rebellious child flinging insults in the face of an incomprehensible and idiotic adult world, then the man himself is gentle, with little flashes of wry humour erupting from the earnest thoughts on the power of art that he speaks in the flowing French learned during his adolescence as a Lebanese exile in Paris. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts] |
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