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Elizabeth Robillard (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
''This is a time such as there never was before. It represents a vast social transformation in which there is at stake, and may be lost, all that has been gained in the slow centuries of material progress and in which there may be achieved some part of all that has been dreamed in the age-long passion for social justice. For the time being, the constituted governments of the world survive as best they...
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Literary Thunder Bay (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Thunder Bay's own Meghan Eddy shows off her comic smarts in her great blog about the trials of being a Thunder Bay waitress. A couple of years ago, Meghan won fourth prize in the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour (high school category). Now at Lakehead University, and slugging along at a local anonymous restaurant, Meghan just gets funnier.Check out http://meghaneddy.blogspot.com...
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Eolake Stobblehouse blog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock This is interesting. I always felt odd about advertising. Isn't it almost dishonest by definition? You make people buy by appealing to emotions, almost exclusively.
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HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
... author of four books of essays and two novels, earning him three nominations for the prestigious Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. An influential personality in the Canadian gardening scene, Des writes a regular column for GardenWise magazine and is a celebrated speaker across North America. His work has also appeared on a variety of regional and national television and radio...
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
... lips. He's a language specialist with an ear for Canadian colloquialisms, a sort of stand-up Stephen Leacock with a Cape Breton cadence.James describes his series as a "hybrid," breaking it down this way: "If there's any theme to the show, it's the Canadian everyman and his brave march through life's bright fury." Besides writing and performing, he's also an executive producer on...
