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Story Book Gives Nod to Canada’s Multilingualism
The stories in the Best of All Worlds represent seven of the most commonly spoken immigrant languages in Canada’s largest cities. Reinforcing heritage languages alongside Canada’s two official languages reflects policy that has set Canada…
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Exhibit Takes Guests to Libraries Around the World
“The library is a mirror of the universe,” writes Argentinian-Canadian author Alberto Manguel in his 2006 book The Library at Night. As print loses traction in our increasingly digitized world, are we in jeopardy of…
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Queer Author Helps Other LGBT Iranians Seek Asylum
Queer activist Arsham Parsi took a risk when he left Iran and began to help other Iranians escape persecution for being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT). At a reading for his book Exiled for…
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Family’s Courage Shines on in Story of Corner Shop
As a child, it wasn’t unusual for Ann Y.K. Choi to be at work behind the counter of her family’s convenience store in Toronto. She and her two brothers were expected to help their parents…
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Novel Provides Realistic Portrayal of Mental Illness
Café Babanussa is a story about mental illness that has never been told before. Through the journey of a young, mixed-race woman exploring Germany in the 1980s, we see how mental instability creeps into the…
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Former Senator: More Aid, Military Capacity Needed
Canada’s foreign policy is caught in a precarious balancing act between the “sunny ways” of election promises and the realpolitik of weapons sales to countries with dubious human rights records. In his new book, Two…
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Journey Back to Vietnam Becomes Universal Story
Kim Thuy’s fourth novel continues the author’s style of recalling her own journey to Canada and crossing linguistic and cultural boundaries. “I don’t mind at all being considered as migrant literature, Asian literature, Canadian literature,…
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Author ‘Pays It Forward’ for Writers of Colour
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz owes his early literary education to the two local librarians who nurtured his love for reading. The all-too-familiar story of unsupportive Dominican immigrant parents equating success with being a doctor…
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Women Noticeably Absent from Democracy Discussion
A discussion on democratic transitions highlighted the need to include the role of women when examining how world leaders have created democratic societies around the world. The discussion took place at the launch of Democratic…
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