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Toronto Singles Guide

By Leanne Delap and Serena French

Newcomers to Toronto pick up on three things very quickly: only tourists and newscasters enunciate the final syllable – the locals say something much closer to “Tronno”; the flashing green traffic light definitely does not ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Hip Guide Toronto

By Karen von Hahn

Newcomers to Toronto pick up on three things very quickly: only tourists and newscasters enunciate the final syllable – the locals say something much closer to “Tronno”; the flashing green traffic light definitely does not ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Beat Toronto

By Christina Temple and David Christian

Newcomers to Toronto pick up on three things very quickly: only tourists and newscasters enunciate the final syllable – the locals say something much closer to “Tronno”; the flashing green traffic light definitely does not ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Secret Toronto: The Unique Guidebook to Toronto’s Hidden Sites, Sounds, & Tastes

By Scott Mitchell, photographs by Linda Rutenberg

Newcomers to Toronto pick up on three things very quickly: only tourists and newscasters enunciate the final syllable – the locals say something much closer to “Tronno”; the flashing green traffic light definitely does not ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Toronto Discovered

By Robert Fulford

Newcomers to Toronto pick up on three things very quickly: only tourists and newscasters enunciate the final syllable – the locals say something much closer to “Tronno”; the flashing green traffic light definitely does not ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

★ Tightrope Passage: Along the Refugee Route to Canada

Tightrope Passage is the first book of Ivo Moravec’s second writing career. His first was as a songwriter and children’s writer in his native Czechoslovakia. In 1983, worn down by the restrictions on his artistic ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Where She Has Gone

My symptoms: I’m a little out-of-step and melancholic, more than usually prone to pondering, distracted, trying to get my focus back on imminent objects while I also do my best to hold on to the ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Diamonds in the Rough

By Eric Walters

A number of years ago, one of the most interesting phenomena associated with Canadian young people’s literature was the number of women writing highly successful young adult fiction featuring male protagonists. Today, one of the ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Good-Bye Marianne

By Irene N. Watts

One moment 11-year-old Marianne is heading off to school, stewing over an upcoming math test; the next she finds the school doors closed to her and ordinary life finished. For a Jewish child growing up ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Northern Frights 4

By Don Hutchison,ed.

The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold. Having written those lines, Robert Service opened the cremation chamber door to a chilling sub-genre of horror fiction: terror in the Canadian ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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