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Showing posts with label Canada150. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada150. Show all posts
Sunday, December 31, 2017

The Best of CAL 2017

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Critics at Large Summer Meeting, August 4/17 (l.to r. Kevin Courrier, Danny McMurray, Steve Vineberg, Devin McKinney, Justin Cummings, Bo...
Friday, December 29, 2017

Podcast: Interview with Poet Dionne Brand (1984)

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Dionne Brand, in 2016. (Photo: Andrea Karr) From 1981 to 1989, I was assistant producer and co-host of the radio show On the Arts , a...
Saturday, December 23, 2017

Podcast: Interview with Canadian Novelist David Adams Richards (1988)

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 David Adams Richards in 2008. (Photo: Bruce Peters) From 1981 to 1989, I was assistant producer and co-host of the radio show On the...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Podcast: Interview with Poet Alden Nowlan (1982)

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Poet Alden Nowlan (1933-1983). (Photo Courtesy of Beaverbrook Collection of War Art) From 1981 to 1989, I was assistant producer and ...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

Podcast: Interview with Elizabeth Waterston (1987)

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Author Lucy Maud Montgomery, born on November 30, 1874. From 1981 to 1989, I was assistant producer and co-host of the radio show O...
Saturday, November 11, 2017

Remembrance Day Podcast, Part II: Interview with Robin Phillips (1983)

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Brent Carver, Martha Henry, and William Hutt in The Wars (1983). From 1981 to 1989, I was assistant producer and co-host of the r...
Friday, November 10, 2017

Remembrance Day Podcast, Part I: Interview with Timothy Findley (1983)

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Timothy Findley. From 1981 to 1989, I was assistant producer and co-host of the radio show On the Arts , at CJRT-FM (today Jazz 91...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Podcast: Interview with Poet Phyllis Webb (1982)

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From 1981 to 1989, I was assistant producer and co-host of the radio show On the Arts , at CJRT-FM (today Jazz 91.1) in Toronto. With t...
Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Podcast: Interview with Poet Al Purdy (1986)

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Canadian Poet Al Purdy, 1918-2000. (Photo: John Reeves) From 1981 to 1989, I was assistant producer and co-host of the radio show On t...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Loyalty, Mastery, Mystery: Nicholas Jennings’s Lightfoot

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Gordon Lightfoot in 1976. I was eager to read Nicholas Jennings ’s Lightfoot (Viking; 328 pp.), the first biography of the Canadian ...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Podcast: Interview with Writer B. W. Powe (1987)

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Marshall McLuhan in 1973. From 1981 to 1989, I was assistant producer and co-host of the radio show On the Arts , at CJRT-FM (today Ja...
Friday, September 22, 2017

Soul Survivors: Interview with Clement Virgo (1995)

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Sharon Lewis as the DJ in Rude . As part of our Canada150 series, where we celebrate the country's birthday, we have been featuri...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Podcast: Interview with Author Morley Torgov (1982)

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Author Morley Torgov. From 1981 to 1989, I was assistant producer and co-host of the radio show On the Arts , at CJRT-FM (today Jazz 9...
Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Podcast: Elspeth Cameron on Hugh MacLennan (1981)

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Author  Hugh MacLennan in 1984. From 1981 to 1989, I was assistant producer and co-host of the radio show On the Arts , at CJRT-FM (to...
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Sunday, July 30, 2017

Living Spaces: The Family Camera at Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum

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The Dewan family visiting Niagara Fall, August 1980. (Photo courtesy of Deepali Dewan) There is a fascinating photography exhibition a...
Sunday, July 9, 2017

Changing the Narrative in Canadian History: Three Recent Canadian Studies

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The Scream by Kent Monkman. (2017, Acrylic on Canvas) If you are a Canadian, you will undoubtedly know that Aboriginals have not ...
Saturday, July 1, 2017

Ohhhh Canada: Critics At Large Celebrates Canada 150

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Celebrating birthdays is complicated enough when you're discussing people, let alone when you start talking about a nation. For a f...
Thursday, June 15, 2017

Podcast: Interview with Director Denys Arcand (1986)

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Rémy Girard in Denys Arcand's Le déclin de l'empire américain (1986). From 1981 to 1989, I was assistant producer and co-hos...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Two Poets, Two Voices: Gianna Patriarca and Alden Hadwen

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It is not known if Gianna Patriarca and Alden Hadwen know each other. But these two women have more in common than having coincidentally...
Friday, May 5, 2017

Podcast: Interview with Guy Vanderhaeghe (1982)

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Author Guy Vanderhaeghe, with Canadian Governor General David Johnston, receiving his third Governor General’s Literary Award, in 2015. (...