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  Monday, 3 February 2003

 < 11:45:21 PM>.

Five hunters die in boating accident in Newfoundland
Searchers in Newfoundland have found the bodies of five men who drowned off Musgrave Harbour early Monday morning. A sixth person in the hunting party survived. F U L L   S T O R Y
[CBC News]

 < 10:35:07 PM>.

MacResQ offers PowerBook service to Canada [The Macintosh News Network]

 < 6:43:08 PM>.

School resumes under cloud of grief
Students returned to an Alberta private school on Monday under a cloud of grief over the deaths of seven students in a weekend avalanche. F U L L   S T O R Y
[CBC News]

 < 3:48:36 PM>.

Where art is good medicine FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]

 < 3:46:26 PM>.

No arts money? Then where's Glenn Gould Street? By DAVID MACFARLANE
FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]

 < 3:45:17 PM>.

Can Grit Director Jerry Ciccoritti tells RAY CONLOGUE that his latest TV crime thriller, Chasing Cain II: Face, shows 'a portrait of Toronto that has never been seen before'
-- Watching Jerry Ciccoritti's homicide thriller Chasing Cain, which is set in Toronto, is a subversive thrill. We've seen police cars scorching down Toronto's streets before, but they usually have Chicago Police or Denver Sheriff's Dept. painted on the doors. This time it's actually Toronto cops on duty, and Toronto -- bless it -- has finally come out of the closet. Mom, dad -- I'm Toronto. Accept me as I am.  FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]

 < 3:18:31 PM>.

The Guy in That Canadian Film Sounds Like a Noo Yawka, Eh?. So many New York movies are being made in Canada that David Schaap, a New York transplant, works as a dialect coach helping Canadian actors pass for New Yorkers. [New York Times: Arts] "Canadians have upward inflections at the end of sentences and stress different syllables. You can really hear the difference in words like mobile, resource, adult and contributed. Canadians stress the first syllable, making the word sound longer."

A fascinating article about the differences between how Canucks and Americans speak.


 < 2:58:30 PM>.

TheStar.com - Marketing a maestro 'As Forrester explains with a shrug: "We'll do whatever we have to do to get Peter's face on camera." Instead of throwing a hissy fit and insisting that he's an artist, not a salesman, Oundjian quips: "Well, you can't be an artiste in an empty hall."'

 < 11:12:14 AM>.

Week of funerals for Alberta high school
An Alberta private school known for its outdoor sports program is mourning the death of seven of its students in an avalanche Saturday. F U L L   S T O R Y
[CBC News]




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