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Check out these Canadian novels and short story collections coming out in spring 2024.

$322,000 was given out across 7 prizes, recognizing fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

Pictured left-to-right: Mag Ruffman, Paul Mason, Meaghan Smith Coming up this Saturday at 1pm on...

Hamilton appeared at the Shaw Festival for 13 seasons and was well known for her work in the TV miniseries Anne of Green Gables and other adaptations of L.M. Montgomery novels

A real-life story "About 18 years ago, I was approached at a reading I was giving in Perth, Ont., by a man named Hugh LaFave. LaFave wanted me to help him with his writing and asked if I would. And I did.  I was so intrigued by the character of Rabbit Foot Bill. "One of the stories that he had that he wanted to write was the story of Robert Foot Bill, who was somebody he had known, when he was a child in Saskatchewan. I worked with him for a while and he wrote a version of it himself. "At som...

A real-life story "About 18 years ago, I was approached at a reading I was giving in Perth, Ont., by a man named Hugh LaFave. LaFave wanted me to help him with his writing and asked if I would. And I did.  I was so intrigued by the character of Rabbit Foot Bill. "One of the stories that he had that he wanted to write was the story of Robert Foot Bill, who was somebody he had known, when he was a child in Saskatchewan. I worked with him for a while and he wrote a version of it himself. "At som...

Wiggles star Lachlan Gillespie reveals band prepped him for fatherhood Caleb Taylor For Daily Mail Australia © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo The Wiggles star Lachlan Gillespie has revealed how the iconic childrens band prepared him for fatherhood with twin girls.  The childrens entertainer and his fiancée, Dana Stephensen, welcomed twin daughters Lulu and Lottie in September. Speaking to The Daily Telegraph on Wednesday, Lachlan, 35, revealed how he was able to g...

What death data says about COVID-19s deadly toll in Massachusetts © WCVB Arnalda Bettencourt died of COVID-19 this spring. She had been a nursing home resident. Eva Bettencourts mother Arnalda immigrated to the country U.S. from the Azores in 1979. In this country, she worked long hours and took care of her disabled husband, all to make a better life for her family. "She would work 12 hours a day, come home, cook, clean, feed my dad, bathe him. She was always there for everyone," she said. "...