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Showing posts with label Regina Leader-Post. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Regina Leader-Post. Show all posts
18 September 2023

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Self-Improvement

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Pagan Love John Murray Gibbon Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1922 310 pages The start of this novel sees a suicide thwarted. Walter Olip...
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13 June 2022

An Old Novel of Misspent Youth

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Blaze of Noon Jeann Beattie Toronto: Ryserson, 1950 353 pages The sixth winner of Ryerson's in-house All-Canada Fiction Award , the publ...
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14 January 2019

A Novelist and His Heroine Give Up on Movies

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An addendum to last week's review of Basil King's The Dust Flower .  Earthbound is one of the greatest motion pictures ever ma...
08 April 2013

Did Arthur Stringer Incite the Bolshevists to Blow Up Wall Street? Maclean's Dares Ask the Question!

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Myth: On 11 September 2001, President George W. Bush told Americans to go shopping. Fact: He told them to go to Disney World. Terror...
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08 October 2012

The Sudden Violent Deaths of Arthur Stringer and His Family (and Their Respective Resurrections)

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One of the earliest Canadians to really make a killing in the writing game, Arthur Stringer led a pretty eventful life. More than six...
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10 September 2012

Lilian Vaux MacKinnon and Her Critics

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A fleeting follow-up to the previous post : Lilian Vaux MacKinnon earned a English B.A. (Honours) at Queen's, though I don't s...
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06 September 2012

Back to School with Miriam of Queen's

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Miriam of Queen's Lilian Vaux MacKinnon Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1921 Imagine, a Canadian college novel publishe...
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25 June 2012

The World's Most Unusual Detective Magazine!

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© The Estate of Leo Orenstein Check out the gams! It took me a while to realize that that blonde's about to take a leap. Or is she...
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24 February 2011

Freedom to Read Week – Thursday

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The Leader-Post , 7 January 1938 The Ottawa Citizen , 7 January 1938
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