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World Literacy Canada Kama Benefit Reading Series

World Literacy Canada — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:02:48 -0400

Start: Jan 25 2012 - 6:30am

End: May 30 2012 - 6:30am

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, WLC’s five-part Kama Benefit Reading Series has attracted over 200 of Canada’s leading authors and public intellectuals, such as Margaret Atwood, David Suzuki, and Michael Ondaatje. With the support of these and many other authors, Kama has grown to be one of Toronto’s most exciting and sought-after literary events.

Creative writing workshop

Roxanne Snider — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:13:34 -0500

Start: Apr 3 2012 - 7:00pm

End: May 29 2012 - 9:00pm

A great way to start writing, jump start your stalled writing, or push your writing to a new level ...

Join a new session of an ongoing creative writing workshop, which evolved out of a University of Toronto Creative Writing course.

Through a series of writing prompts, we'll explore various components of narrative prose - exposition, dialogue, point-of-view, style, etc. Each week participants write a short, assigned piece which we'll read and discuss in class. These exercises are designed to spark the imagination and hone the craft of writing, and are suitable to writers of fiction and memoir, beginning writers or those further along.

Creative Writing Workshop

Roxanne Snider — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:32:44 -0400

Start: May 10 2012 - 9:28pm

End: Jun 28 2012 - 9:28pm

CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP

Book Launch: A Healthy Society: How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy

CanadaDoctorsforMedicare — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:42:40 -0400

Start: May 28 2012 - 7:00pm

End: May 28 2012 - 9:00pm

Drawing on his experiences as a family physician in the inner city of Saskatoon, in Mozambique, and in rural Saskatchewan, Dr. Meili argues that health delivery too often focuses on treatment of immediate causes and ignores more fundamental conditions that lead to poor health. Income, education, employment, housing, the wider environment, and social supports: far more than the actions of physicians, nurses, and other health care providers, it is these conditions that make the greatest difference in our health. Brought to life by patient stories, A Healthy Society explores a number of specific health determinants, and ends in a discussion of democratic reforms that could help reshape the way we organize ourselves to create a truly healthy society.

Vancouver International Writer's Festival: Richard Ford

Vancouver International Writers Festival — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:47:21 -0400

Start: May 28 2012 - 7:30pm

End: May 28 2012 - 9:30pm

Richard Ford's latest novel, Canada, tells the unforgettable story of Dell Parsons, a young man spirited across the Montana border into Saskatchewan. Here he is taken in by Arthur Remlinger, an enigmatic man whose own past exists on the other side of the border. Dell struggles to understand what his future can be even as he comes to understand the violence simmering below the surface in his new life. Haunting and spectacular in vision, Canada is a novel rich with emotional clarity and lyrical precision, and an acute sense of the grandeur of living.

Book Launch: Omar Khadr, Oh Canada

Theresa Ketterling — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:19:37 -0400

Start: May 30 2012 - 7:00pm

End: May 30 2012 - 10:00pm

Omar Khadr has been held prisoner by the United States since 2002. Some Canadians see Khadr as a symbol of terrorism in action. For others he is the victim of a jihadist father and Canadian complicity in the unjust excesses, including torture, of the US "war on terror”.

In Omar Khadr, Oh Canada, over thirty contributors analyze Khadr's background, his incarceration, the actions of Canadian authorities, and the implications raised by his legal case.

Book Launch: A Healthy Society

Theresa Ketterling — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:36:02 -0400

Start: Jun 6 2012 - 7:30pm

End: Jun 6 2012 - 10:30pm

There’s more to health than the medical system – there’s democracy and social justice! Dr. Ryan Meili argues that health delivery too often focuses on treatment of immediate causes and ignores more fundamental conditions that lead to poor health in the first place.

Book Launch Invitation: Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in an Age of Anxiety (please RSVP)

betweenthelines — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:12:04 -0400

Start: Jun 7 2012 - 5:00pm

End: Jun 7 2012 - 7:00pm

Join authors Ian McKay and Jamie Swift as they dissect Canada's militaristic rebranding of itself into a "Warrior Nation."

Please RSVP to:

Once known for peacekeeping, Canada is becoming a militarized nation whose apostles-the New Warriors-are fighting to shift public opinion. New Warrior zealots seek to transform postwar Canada's central myth-symbols. Peaceable kingdom. Just society. Multicultural tolerance. Reasoned public debate. Their replacements? A warrior nation. Authoritarian leadership. Permanent political polarization.

Sponsored by Between the Lines and Sisters of Providence

Book Launch - Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in an Age of Anxiety

betweenthelines — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:38:19 -0400

Start: Jun 14 2012 - 5:30pm

End: Jun 14 2012 - 7:30pm

Once known for peacekeeping, Canada is becoming a militarized nation whose apostles - the New Warriors-are fighting to shift public opinion. New Warrior zealots seek to transform postwar Canada's central myth-symbols. Peaceable kingdom. Just society. Multicultural tolerance. Reasoned public debate. Their replacements? A warrior nation. Authoritarian leadership. Permanent political polarization.