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Thomas King among finalists for $15K Stephen Leacock Medal for humour writing by The Canadian Press Last Updated May 3, 2021 at 1:14 pm EDT Renowned writer Thomas King is among the three nominees for this year’s Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. Organizers revealed the short list for the $15,000 humour writing prize Monday. Guelph, Ont.-based King made the cut for his anti-travelogue “Indians on Vacation,” from HarperCollins Publishers. Toronto writer Joseph Kertes, who received the Leacock in 1989, is vying for his second win with his dark comedy about a family mystery, “Las...

Shortlist announced for Stephen Leacock medal The shortlist has been announced for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. The $15,000 prize recognizes literary humour in a Canadian book. Joseph Kertes’s Last Impressions is about Zoltan Beck, a patriarch and Holocaust survivor nearing death who longs to enjoy life as his sons seek to understand his past before it’s too late. Thomas King’s Indians on Vacation is about Bird and Mimi, an Indigenous couple who attempt to trace a long-lost relative through Europe. Morgan Murray’s debut novel Dirty Birds is about Milton Ontario wh...

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A look at the 2011 North American Irish Dance Competition in Nashville, Tennessee On the July 4th weekend, the Gaylord Opryland Convention Center in Nashville, just a stone’s throw from the Grand Ole Opry, was descended upon by a mad rush of curly wigs, spray tans, accordions and fiddles. The North American Dance Competition ran for 4 days and over 3,000 dancers came, not just from North America, but from all over the world. Dancers traveled from Ireland, Scotland, the UK, the Netherlands and from every corner of the United States and Canada to compete. The competitors ranged in age from ei...

comments It's cold outside so bundle up with a good book. Here are 30 great Canadian books to check out. If I Knew Then is a book by Jann Arden.(Random House Canada) Jann Arden is one of Canada's best known singer-songwriters. But when she reached her 50s, her life changed in unexpected ways: she became the caregiver for her mother, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, she became the star of the sitcom  Jann and she realized that getting older doesn't mean she can't grow, change and celebrate.  If I Knew Then is Arden's memoir looking back on this journey, and how she learned to free he...