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Saturday, 1 February 2003
< 12:29:36 PM>.
My favourite episode
-- What some noted Canadians have to say about The Simpsons: Jack Layton The Simpsons is the single most important influence on progressive social commentary on the world. [The Globe and Mail: Arts]
< 12:27:09 PM>.
Opera's upbeat man on the move
In the first part of a monthly series on the creation of Toronto's Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, SANDRA MARTIN spends a very full day with Canadian Opera Company director Richard Bradshaw, just as his long-cherished dream of building a permanent home for the troupe is finally getting off the ground [The Globe and Mail: Arts]
< 12:24:08 PM>.
Mordecai then and now, forever
If devotees of Richler's work have their way, the bard of St. Urbain Street will be raised to iconic status, JAMES ADAMS writes [The Globe and Mail: Arts]
< 12:53:34 AM>.
Bay of Fundy loses claim to world's highest tides 'Authorities at the Canadian Hydrographic Service, the agency responsible for mapping domestic waterways, have declared a tie between the famous tides of the Bay of Fundy and those of Ungava Bay on the northern coast of Quebec.
The decision shatters decades-old assumptions, upheld by the Guinness Book of World Records and other sources, that Nova Scotia's Minas Basin, an offshoot of the Bay of Fundy, has the highest tidal ranges in the world.' There's a shocker! Ouch. I grew up in a house with a view on the Minas Basin.
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La Scena Musicale February 2003 Issue (PDF)
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