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Canada Reads

Index Canada Reads

Canada Reads is an annual "battle of the books" competition organized and broadcast by Canada's public broadcaster, the CBC. [1]

330 relations: A Complicated Kindness, A Fine Balance, A Season in the Life of Emmanuel, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali, Abla Farhoud, Al Purdy, Alain Lefèvre, Alan Thicke, Ali Hassan (comedian), Ali Velshi, Alice Munro, Altered Carbon (TV series), American War (novel), Ami McKay, André Alexis, Angie Abdou, Anita Rau Badami, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Annabel (Winter novel), Anne Lagacé Dowson, Anne-France Goldwater, Anne-Marie Withenshaw, Anosh Irani, Antonine Maillet, Arlene Dickinson, Atlantic Canada, Avi Lewis, Émile Ollivier (writer), Barney's Version (novel), Beautiful Losers, Bernard Landry, Bill Richardson (radio), Brian Francis, Brown Girl in the Ring (novel), Bruce Poon Tip, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, Cadence Weapon, Cameron Bailey, Canada, Canada Book Day, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Candy Palmater, Carmen Aguirre, Carol Huynh, Carol Shields, CBC News, CBC News Network, CBC Radio One, CBC Television, CBC.ca, ..., Chantal Kreviazuk, Charlotte Gray (author), Cherie Dimaline, Children of My Heart, Christian Mistral, Christiane Charette, Clara Hughes, Cockroach (novel), Cocksure, Cottage Life (TV channel), Craig Davidson, Craig Kielburger, Danielle Trussart, Dany Laferrière, Dave Bidini, David Adams Richards, David Bergen, David Bezmozgis, David Gilmour (writer), De Niro's Game, Deafening (novel), Debbie Travis, Deni Ellis Béchard, Denis Thériault, Denise Bombardier, Dennis Trudeau, Djemila Benhabib, Donna Morrissey, Donovan Bailey, Douglas Coupland, Edge (wrestler), Elaine Lui, Elizabeth Smart (Canadian author), Esi Edugyan, Essex County Trilogy, Fall on Your Knees, Farley Mowat, Fifteen Dogs, Françoise David, Frances Itani, Francine Noël, Francine Pelletier (journalist), Frank Parker Day, French language, Gaétan Soucy, Gabrielle Roy, Gérald Larose, Gérard Bouchard, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, Geneviève Guérard, George Elliott Clarke, Georges Laraque, Germaine Guèvremont, Gil Adamson, Gil Courtemanche, Gildor Roy, Gill Deacon, Glen Murray (politician), Green Grass, Running Water, Guy Delisle, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Half-Blood Blues, Heather O'Neill, Helen Humphreys, How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired, Hubert Aquin, Hugh MacLennan, Ici Radio-Canada Première, In the Skin of a Lion, Indian Horse, Indigenous peoples in Canada, Jacques Godbout, Jacques Poulin, Jane Jacobs, Jane Urquhart, Janette Bertrand, Jay Baruchel, Jean-Jacques Pelletier, Jeanne Beker, Jeff Lemire, Jemeni (singer), Jen Sookfong Lee, Jerusalem (comics), Jian Ghomeshi, Jim Cuddy, Jocelyne Saucier, Jody Mitic, John K. Samson, John Vaillant, Joseph Boyden, Julius Grey, Jully Black, Justin Trudeau, Kamal Al-Solaylee, Katherena Vermette, Kathleen Winter, Ken Dryden, Kim Campbell, Kim Thúy, King Leary, Kristin Kreuk, Laure Waridel, Lawrence Hill, Lazer Lederhendler, Le Devoir, Leon Rooke, Leonard Cohen, Life of Pi, Lisa Moore (writer), Loco Locass, Lorne Cardinal, Louis-José Houde, Louise Forestier, Lucie Laurier, Lullabies for Little Criminals, M. G. Vassanji, Mad Shadows (novel), Madeline Ashby, Mag Ruffman, Mairuth Sarsfield, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Laurence, Margaret MacMillan, Marie Laberge, Marie-Claire Blais, Marie-France Bazzo, Marie-Louise Arsenault, Marie-Sissi Labrèche, Marina Endicott, Marina Nemat, Mark Sakamoto, Martha Wainwright, Mary Walsh (actress), Mathyas Lefebure, Maureen McTeer, Mavis Gallant, Measha Brueggergosman, Megan Follows, Mercy among the Children, Michael Ondaatje, Michael Winter (writer), Michel Tremblay, Micheline Lanctôt, Miriam Toews, Molly Johnson, Monique Proulx, Montreal Gazette, Mordecai Richler, Mozhdah Jamalzadah, Nalo Hopkinson, Nancy Huston, Nancy Lee (writer), Naomi Fontaine, Natasha and Other Stories, National Post, Nelofer Pazira, Netflix, Next Episode, Nicholas Campbell, Nicolas Dickner, Nikolski (novel), No Crystal Stair, Not Wanted on the Voyage, Olivia Chow, Omar El Akkad, On a Cold Road, Ontario, Oryx and Crake, Panelist, Patrice Desbiens, Patrick Lagacé, Paul Cargnello, Paul Hiebert (writer), Paul Quarrington, Pauline Marois, Pauline Martin, Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War, Perdita Felicien, Perrine Leblanc, Peter Kavanagh (producer), Pierre Berton, Pierre Lebeau, Podcast, Public broadcasting, Publishing, Q (radio show), Quebec, Quill & Quire, Random House of Canada, Rawi Hage, Raymond Gravel, Raziel Reid, Réjean Ducharme, Reading (process), Richard Wagamese, Roch Carrier, Rockbound, Rohinton Mistry, Roméo Dallaire, Ron MacLean, Ru (novel), Rufus Wainwright, Russell Smith (writer), Saleema Nawaz, Samantha Bee, Samantha Nutt, Samuel Archibald (writer), Sara Tilley, Sarah Binks, Sarah Gadon, Sarah Slean, Scott Thompson (comedian), Self (novel), Shad (rapper), Shake Hands with the Devil (book), Sharon Bala, Sheila Copps, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Sherraine Schalm, Simi Sara, Sophie Cadieux, Stacey McKenzie, Stanley Park (novel), Stephen Lewis, Steve MacLean (astronaut), Steven Page, Susan Musgrave, Tahmoh Penikett, Tamara Taylor, Tasha Kheiriddin, Tegan and Sara, Terry Fallis, The Book of Negroes (novel), The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant, The Film Club, The Game (Dryden book), The Globe and Mail, The Handmaid's Tale, The Heart Goes Last, The Illegal (novel), The Jade Peony, The Last Crossing, The Last Spike (book), The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches, The Love of a Good Woman, The Orenda, The Robber Bride, The Song of Kahunsha, The Stone Angel, The Year of the Flood, Thomas Hellman, Thomas King (novelist), Thomas Wharton (author), Three Day Road, Timothy Findley, Timothy Taylor (writer), Toronto Star, Tracey Lindberg, Translation, Trent McClellan, Two Solitudes (novel), Une histoire américaine, University of Toronto, Unless, Vandal Love, Vinay Virmani, Volkswagen Blues, Wab Kinew, Wayne Johnston (writer), Wayson Choy, Western Canada, When Everything Feels Like the Movies, Whylah Falls, Will Ferguson, Yann Martel, Zaib Shaikh, Zoe Whittall, Zsuzsi Gartner. 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A Complicated Kindness

A Complicated Kindness is the third novel by Canadian author Miriam Toews.

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A Fine Balance

A Fine Balance is the second novel by Rohinton Mistry.

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A Season in the Life of Emmanuel

A Season in the Life of Emmanuel (Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel) is a French Canadian novel by Marie-Claire Blais, published in 1965.

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A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali (original French title: Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali) is the first novel by Montreal author Gil Courtemanche, originally published in 2000.

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Abla Farhoud

Abla Farhoud (born 1945) is a Lebanese-born Canadian writer living in Quebec.

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Al Purdy

Alfred Wellington Purdy, (December 30, 1918 – April 21, 2000) was a 20th-century Canadian free verse poet.

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Alain Lefèvre

Alain Lefèvre, (born July 23, 1962) is a French Canadian pianist and composer.

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Alan Thicke

Alan Willis Thicke (né Jeffrey; March 1, 1947 – December 13, 2016) was a Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, game and talk show host.

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Ali Hassan (comedian)

Ali Hassan is a Canadian comedian, best known as the host of CBC Radio One's weekly comedy program Laugh Out Loud.

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Ali Velshi

Ali Velshi (born October 29, 1969) is a Canadian television journalist, a senior economic and business correspondent for NBC News since October 2016 and co-anchor with Stephanie Ruhle of Velshi & Ruhle on MSNBC.

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Alice Munro

Alice Ann Munro (née Laidlaw; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.

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Altered Carbon (TV series)

Altered Carbon is an American dystopian science fiction cyberpunk web television series created by Laeta Kalogridis and based on the 2002 novel of the same title by English author Richard K. Morgan.

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American War (novel)

American War is the first novel by Canadian-Egyptian journalist Omar El Akkad.

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Ami McKay

Ami McKay (born 1968) is a Canadian novelist, playwright and journalist.

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André Alexis

André Alexis (born 15 January 1957 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) is a Canadian writer who grew up in Ottawa and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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Angie Abdou

Angie Abdou (born 11 May 1969) is a Canadian fiction writer.

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Anita Rau Badami

Anita Rau Badami (born 24 September 1961) is a writer of South Asian descent living in Canada.

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Ann-Marie MacDonald

Ann-Marie MacDonald (born October 29, 1958) is a Canadian playwright, novelist, actress and broadcast host who lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Annabel (Winter novel)

Annabel is a 2010 novel by Canada-based author Kathleen Winter.

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Anne Lagacé Dowson

Anne Lagacé Dowson (born in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian radio journalist.

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Anne-France Goldwater

Anne-France Goldwater (born July 14, 1960).

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Anne-Marie Withenshaw

Anne-Marie Withenshaw is a Canadian television and radio personality, from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Anosh Irani

Anosh Irani (born 1974) is an Indo-Canadian novelist and playwright.

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Antonine Maillet

Antonine Maillet, (born May 10, 1929) is an Acadian novelist, playwright, and scholar.

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Arlene Dickinson

Arlene Dickinson (born October 8, 1956) is a Canadian businesswoman, investor, author, and television personality.

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Atlantic Canada

Atlantic Canada is the region of Canada comprising the four provinces located on the Atlantic coast, excluding Quebec: the three Maritime provinces – New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia – and the easternmost province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Avi Lewis

Avram David "Avi" Lewis (born 1968) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, former host of the Al Jazeera English show Fault Lines and former host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) current-affairs programs CounterSpin and On the Map.

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Émile Ollivier (writer)

Émile Ollivier (February 19, 1940 – November 10, 2002) was a Haitian-born educator and writer living in Quebec, Canada.

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Barney's Version (novel)

Barney's Version is a novel written by Canadian author Mordecai Richler, published by Knopf Canada in 1997.

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Beautiful Losers

Beautiful Losers is the second and final novel by Canadian writer and musician Leonard Cohen.

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Bernard Landry

Bernard Landry, (born March 9, 1937) is a Quebec lawyer, teacher, politician, who as the leader of the Parti Québécois (2001–2005) served as the 28th Premier of Quebec (2001–2003), and leader of the Opposition (2003–2005).

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Bill Richardson (radio)

Bill Richardson (born 1955 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian radio broadcaster and author.

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Brian Francis

Brian Francis (born 1971) is a Canadian writer.

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Brown Girl in the Ring (novel)

Brown Girl in the Ring is a novel written by Jamaican-Canadian writer Nalo Hopkinson.

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Bruce Poon Tip

Bruce Poon Tip is a Canadian entrepreneur best known for founding the travel company, G Adventures and author of the bestselling book Looptail: How One Company Changed the World by Reinventing Business.

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By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept is a novel of prose poetry written by the Canadian author Elizabeth Smart (1913–1986) and published in 1945.

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Cadence Weapon

Roland "Rollie" Pemberton, better known by his stage name Cadence Weapon, is a Canadian rapper.

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Cameron Bailey

Cameron Bailey is a Canadian film critic and festival programmer, who has been the artistic director of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) since 2012.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Canada Book Day

Canada Book Day is a yearly event celebrated in Canada on April 23 to promote reading and books during Canada Book Week.

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian federal Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster for both radio and television.

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Candy Palmater

Candy Palmater is a Canadian comedian and broadcaster.

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Carmen Aguirre

Carmen Aguirre is a Vancouver-based actress and writer, born in Santiago, Chile.

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Carol Huynh

Carol Huynh (born 16 November 1980) is a Canadian freestyle wrestler.

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Carol Shields

Carol Ann Shields, (née Warner; June 2, 1935 – July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer.

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CBC News

CBC News is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.

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CBC News Network

CBC News Network (formerly CBC Newsworld) is a Canadian English-language news channel owned and operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

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CBC Radio One

CBC Radio One is the English-language news and information radio network of the publicly owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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CBC Television

CBC Television (also known as simply "CBC") is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network that is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French-language counterpart is Ici Radio-Canada Télé. Headquartered at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto, CBC Television is available throughout Canada on over-the-air television stations in urban centres and as a must-carry station on cable and satellite television. Almost all of the CBC's programming is produced in Canada. Although CBC Television is supported by public funding, commercial advertising revenue supplements the network, in contrast to CBC Radio and public broadcasters from several other countries, which are commercial-free.

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CBC.ca

CBC.ca is the English-language online service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Chantal Kreviazuk

Chantal Jennifer Kreviazuk (born May 18, 1974) is a Canadian singer-songwriter.

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Charlotte Gray (author)

Charlotte Gray, CM (born January 3, 1948) is a British born Canadian historian and author.

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Cherie Dimaline

Cherie Dimaline is a Canadian Métis writer.

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Children of My Heart

Children of My Heart is a novel by Gabrielle Roy, published in 1977.

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Christian Mistral

Christian Mistral (born November 3, 1964 in Montreal) is a Canadian novelist, poet and songwriter from Quebec.

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Christiane Charette

Christiane Charette (born March 29, 1951) is a Canadian radio and television personality, who hosted the national morning program on the Première Chaîne radio network from 2006 to 2011.

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Clara Hughes

Clara Hughes, (born September 27, 1972) is a Canadian cyclist and speed skater who has won multiple Olympic medals in both sports.

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Cockroach (novel)

Cockroach is a dark comedy book by Canadian author Rawi Hage.

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Cocksure

Cocksure is a novel by Mordecai Richler.

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Cottage Life (TV channel)

Cottage Life is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by Blue Ant Media.

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Craig Davidson

Craig Davidson (born 1976, Toronto, Canada) is a Canadian author of short stories and novels, who has published work under both his own name and the pen names Patrick Lestewka and Nick Cutter.

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Craig Kielburger

Craig Kielburger (born December 17, 1982) is a Canadian author and activist for the rights of children.

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Danielle Trussart

Danielle Trussart (born December 3, 1948) is a visual artist and writer living in Quebec, Canada.

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Dany Laferrière

Dany Laferrière (born Windsor Kléber Laferrière, 13 April 1953) is a Haitian-Canadian novelist and journalist who writes in French.

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Dave Bidini

Dave Bidini (born September 11, 1963) is a Canadian musician and writer.

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David Adams Richards

David Adams Richards, CM, ONB (born 17 October 1950) is a Canadian writer and member of the Canadian Senate.

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David Bergen

David Bergen (born January 14, 1957) is a Canadian novelist.

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David Bezmozgis

David Bezmozgis (born 1973) is a Canadian writer and filmmaker.

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David Gilmour (writer)

David Gilmour BA Hons (French), BEd (born 22 December 1949) is a Canadian fiction novelist, former television journalist, film festival member and visiting lecturer at the University of Toronto.

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De Niro's Game

De Niro's Game is the debut novel by Lebanese-Canadian writer Rawi Hage, originally published in 2006.

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Deafening (novel)

Deafening is a 2003 novel written by Frances Itani.

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Debbie Travis

Debbie Travis (born September 25, 1960 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England) is a British-Canadian television personality, self-taught interior decorator, and former fashion model.

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Deni Ellis Béchard

Deni Ellis Béchard, also known as Denis Yvan Béchard (born in 1974 in British Columbia) is a Canadian-American novelist.

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Denis Thériault

Denis Thériault (born August 24, 1959) is a Quebec writer.

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Denise Bombardier

Denise Bombardier, (born January 18, 1941 in Montreal, Quebec) is a controversial journalist, novelist, essayist, producer, and media personality who worked for the French-language television station Radio-Canada for over 30 years.

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Dennis Trudeau

Dennis Trudeau is a Canadian broadcaster based in Montreal.

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Djemila Benhabib

Djemila Benhabib (جميلة بن حبيب) (born 1972) is a Canadian journalist, writer and politician who lives in Quebec.

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Donna Morrissey

Donna Morrissey (born 1956 at The Beaches, Newfoundland) is a Canadian author.

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Donovan Bailey

Donovan Bailey, O.Ont (born December 16, 1967) is a retired Jamaican-Canadian sprinter, who once held the world record for the 100 metres.

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Douglas Coupland

Douglas CouplandSteve Lohr, "No More McJobs for Mr.

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Edge (wrestler)

Adam Joseph Copeland (born October 30, 1973) is a Canadian actor, podcaster and retired professional wrestler better known by his ring name Edge.

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Elaine Lui

Elaine "Lainey" Lui (born September 26, 1973) is a Canadian television personality, reporter, and infotainer.

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Elizabeth Smart (Canadian author)

Elizabeth Smart (December 27, 1913 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian poet and novelist.

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Esi Edugyan

Esi Edugyan (born 1978) is a Canadian novelist.

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Essex County Trilogy

Essex County Trilogy is a collection of three graphic short stories set in Essex County, Ontario by Jeff Lemire published in 2011 by Top Shelf Productions.

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Fall on Your Knees

Fall on Your Knees is a 1996 novel by Canadian playwright, actor and novelist Ann-Marie MacDonald.

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Farley Mowat

Farley McGill Mowat, (May 12, 1921 – May 6, 2014) was a Canadian writer and environmentalist.

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Fifteen Dogs

Fifteen Dogs is a novel by Canadian writer André Alexis.

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Françoise David

Françoise David, CQ (born January 13, 1948) is a former spokesperson of Québec solidaire – a left-wing, feminist and sovereigntist political party in the province of Quebec, Canada.

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Frances Itani

Frances Susan Itani, née Hill (born August 25, 1942) is a Canadian fiction writer, poet and essayist.

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Francine Noël

Francine Noël (born 1945 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian writer, whose 2005 work La Femme de ma vie won the 2006 edition of Première Chaîne's Le Combat des livres.

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Francine Pelletier (journalist)

Francine Pelletier (born c. 1955) is a journalist based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Frank Parker Day

Frank Parker Day (9 May 1881 at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia – 30 July 1950 at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia) was a Canadian athlete, academic and author.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Gaétan Soucy

Gaétan Soucy (21 October 1958 – 9 July 2013) was a Canadian novelist and professor.

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Gabrielle Roy

Gabrielle Roy, (March 22, 1909 – July 13, 1983) was a French Canadian author.

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Gérald Larose

Gérald Larose (born October 24, 1945) is a Quebec activist, professor, and former President of the Confédération des syndicats nationaux labour union.

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Gérard Bouchard

Gérard Bouchard (born December 26, 1943) is a historian, sociologist and writer from Quebec, Canada, affiliated with the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi.

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Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, published by St. Martin's Press in 1991, is the first novel by Douglas Coupland.

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Geneviève Guérard

Geneviève Guérard (born April 19, 1973) is a Canadian dancer and television presenter living in Quebec.

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George Elliott Clarke

George Elliott Clarke, (born February 12, 1960) is a Canadian poet and playwright and is currently serving as the Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate.

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Georges Laraque

Georges Edy Laraque (born December 7, 1976) is a Canadian sports commentator, politician, and former ice hockey player.

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Germaine Guèvremont

Germaine Guèvremont, born Grignon at Athabasca University Centre for Language and Literature.

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Gil Adamson

Gillian "Gil" Adamson (born 1 January 1961) is a Canadian writer.

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Gil Courtemanche

Gil Courtemanche (August 18, 1943 – August 19, 2011) was a Canadian progressive journalist and novelist in third-world and international politics.

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Gildor Roy

Gildor Roy (born May 11, 1960 in Abitibi-Témiscamingue and raised in Rigaud, Quebec, Canada) is a Québécois actor.

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Gill Deacon

Gillian "Gill" Deacon (born April 26, 1966, in Toronto, Ontario; name is pronounced "Jill") is a Canadian author and broadcaster, currently the host of Here and Now on CBLA-FM in Toronto.

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Glen Murray (politician)

Glen R. Murray (born October 26, 1957) is a Canadian politician and urban issues advocate.

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Green Grass, Running Water

Green Grass, Running Water is a 1993 novel by Thomas King, a writer of Cherokee and Greek/German-American descent, and United States and Canadian dual citizenship.

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Guy Delisle

Guy Delisle (born January 19, 1966) is a Canadian cartoonist and animator, best known for his graphic novels about his travels, such as Shenzhen (2000), Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (2003), Burma Chronicles (2007), and Jerusalem (2011).

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Guy Vanderhaeghe

Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe, OC, SOM (born April 5, 1951) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, best known for his Western novels trilogy, The Englishman's Boy, The Last Crossing, and A Good Man set in the 19th-century American and Canadian West.

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Half-Blood Blues

Half-Blood Blues (styled without the hyphen in the UK edition) is a fictional work written by Canadian writer Esi Edugyan, and first published in June 2011 by Serpent’s Tail.

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Heather O'Neill

Heather O'Neill (born 1973) is a Canadian novelist, poet, short story writer, screenwriter and journalist, who published her debut novel, Lullabies for Little Criminals, in 2006.

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Helen Humphreys

Helen Humphreys (born 13 June 1961) is a Canadian poet and novelist.

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How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired

How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired (Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer) is a 1989 French-language Canadian drama film directed by, starring Isaach de Bankolé and Maka Kotto, and written by Haitian author Dany Laferrière based on his novel of the same name.

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Hubert Aquin

Hubert Aquin (24 October 1929 – 15 March 1977) was a Quebec novelist, political activist, essayist, filmmaker and editor.

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Hugh MacLennan

John Hugh MacLennan, CC, CQ (March 20, 1907 – November 9, 1990) was a Canadian author and professor of English at McGill University.

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Ici Radio-Canada Première

Ici Radio-Canada Première (formerly Première Chaîne) is a Canadian French-language radio network, the news and information service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (known as Société Radio-Canada in French), the public broadcaster of Canada.

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In the Skin of a Lion

In the Skin of a Lion is a novel by Canadian–Sri Lankan writer Michael Ondaatje.

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Indian Horse

Indian Horse is a novel by Canadian writer Richard Wagamese, published by Douglas & McIntyre in 2012.

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Indigenous peoples in Canada

Indigenous peoples in Canada, also known as Native Canadians or Aboriginal Canadians, are the indigenous peoples within the boundaries of present-day Canada.

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Jacques Godbout

Jacques Godbout, OC, CQ (born November 27, 1933) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker and poet.

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Jacques Poulin

Jacques Poulin (born 23 September 1937 in Saint-Gédéon, Quebec) is a Canadian novelist with a quiet and intimate style of writing.

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Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs (née Butzner; May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics.

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Jane Urquhart

Jane Urquhart, Order of Canada OC (born June 21, 1949) is a Canadian novelist and poet born in Little Long Lac, Ontario.

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Janette Bertrand

Janette Bertrand (born March 25, 1925) is a Quebec journalist, actor, educator, and writer.

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Jay Baruchel

Jonathan Adam Saunders Baruchel (born April 9, 1982) is a Canadian actor and screenwriter.

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Jean-Jacques Pelletier

Jean-Jacques Pelletier (born 1947) is a French Canadian philosophy professor and author.

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Jeanne Beker

Jeanne Beker, (born 19 March 1952) is a Canadian television personality, fashion editor, and author.

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Jeff Lemire

Jeff Lemire (born March 21, 1976) is a Canadian cartoonist.

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Jemeni (singer)

Joanne Gairy, better known by her stage name Jemeni, is an actress, writer, activist, broadcaster and community worker.

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Jen Sookfong Lee

Jen Sookfong Lee is a Chinese Canadian broadcaster and novelist.

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Jerusalem (comics)

Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City, originally published in French as Chroniques de Jérusalem, is a 2011 graphic novel written and illustrated by Guy Delisle.

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Jian Ghomeshi

Jian Ghomeshi is a Canadian musician, writer, and former CBC radio broadcaster.

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Jim Cuddy

James Gordon Cuddy, (born December 2, 1955) is a Canadian singer-songwriter primarily associated with the band Blue Rodeo.

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Jocelyne Saucier

Jocelyne Saucier (born 27 May 1948 in Clair, New Brunswick) is a Canadian novelist and journalist based in Quebec.

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Jody Mitic

MCpl (ret.) Jody Mitic, CD (born January 3, 1977 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a Canadian politician and retired soldier.

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John K. Samson

John Kristjan Samson (born 1973) is a Canadian musician from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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John Vaillant

John Vaillant is an American writer and journalist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and Outside.

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Joseph Boyden

Joseph Boyden (born October 31, 1966) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.

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Julius Grey

Julius H. Grey (born 1948) is a Canadian lawyer and university professor.

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Jully Black

Jully Black (born Jullyann Inderia Gordon; November 8, 1977) is a Canadian R&B, singer-songwriter, and actress.

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Justin Trudeau

Justin Pierre James Trudeau (born December 25, 1971) is a Canadian politician serving as the 23rd and current Prime Minister of Canada since 2015 and Leader of the Liberal Party since 2013.

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Kamal Al-Solaylee

Kamal Al-Solaylee (born 1964) is a Canadian journalist, who published his debut book, Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes, in 2012.

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Katherena Vermette

Katherena Vermette is a Canadian writer, who won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry in 2013 for her collection North End Love Songs.

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Kathleen Winter

Kathleen Winter (born 1960) is an English-Canadian short story writer and novelist.

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Ken Dryden

Kenneth Wayne Dryden,, (born August 8, 1947) is a Canadian politician, lawyer, businessman, author, and former NHL goaltender.

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Kim Campbell

Avril Phaedra Douglas "Kim" Campbell (born March 10, 1947) is a Canadian politician, diplomat, lawyer and writer who served as the 19th Prime Minister of Canada, from June 25, 1993, to November 4, 1993.

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Kim Thúy

Kim Thúy, CQ (born 1968 in Saigon, South Vietnam).

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King Leary

King Leary is a novel by Canadian humorist Paul Quarrington, published in 1987 by Doubleday Canada.

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Kristin Kreuk

Kristin Laura Kreuk (born December 30, 1982) is a Canadian actress.

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Laure Waridel

Laure Waridel, (born January 10, 1973) is a social activist, a writer, an environmentalist, and a radio and TV commentator.

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Lawrence Hill

Lawrence Hill (born 1957) is a Canadian novelist, essayist and memoirist.

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Lazer Lederhendler

Lazer Lederhendler is a Canadian literary translator and academic.

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Le Devoir

Le Devoir is a French-language newspaper published in Montreal and distributed in Quebec and throughout Canada.

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Leon Rooke

Leon Rooke, CM (born September 11, 1934) is a Canadian novelist.

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Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist.

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Life of Pi

Life of Pi is a Canadian fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001.

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Lisa Moore (writer)

Lisa Moore (born 28 March 1964) is an acclaimed Canadian writer and editor established in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Loco Locass

Loco Locass are a Canadian hip hop group from Québec formed in 1995.

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Lorne Cardinal

Lorne Cardinal (born 6 January 1964) is a Canadian stage, television and film actor and former rugby union player, best known for portraying Davis Quinton in Corner Gas.

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Louis-José Houde

Louis-José Houde (born October 19, 1977 in Saint-Apollinaire, Québec) is a French-Canadian comedian, who mostly does stand-up comedy and also has his own TV show.

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Louise Forestier

Louise Forestier (born Louise Belhumeur on August 10, 1942) is a singer, songwriter and actress.

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Lucie Laurier

Lucie Laurier (born March 19, 1975) is a French-Canadian actress.

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Lullabies for Little Criminals

Lullabies for Little Criminals is a 2006 novel by Heather O'Neill.

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M. G. Vassanji

Moyez G. Vassanji, CM (born 30 May 1950) is a Canadian novelist and editor, who writes under the name M. G. Vassanji.

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Mad Shadows (novel)

Mad Shadows (La Belle Bête) is a French-Canadian novel by Marie-Claire Blais, published in 1959.

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Madeline Ashby

Madeline Ashby (born April 24, 1983 in Panorama City, California) is an American-Canadian science fiction writer.

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Mag Ruffman

Margaret "Mag" Ruffman (born February 28, 1957) is a Canadian comedian, actress and television host.

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Mairuth Sarsfield

Mairuth Hodge Sarsfield, CQ (1925 – May 7, 2013) was a Canadian author, activist journalist, researcher and television personality.

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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher and environmental activist.

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Margaret Laurence

Jean Margaret Laurence, CC (née Wemyss) (18 July 1926 – 5 January 1987) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, and is one of the major figures in Canadian literature.

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Margaret MacMillan

Margaret Olwen MacMillan, (born 23 December 1943) is a Canadian historian and professor at the University of Oxford.

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Marie Laberge

Marie Laberge (born November 29, 1950) is a Quebec actress, educator and writer.

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Marie-Claire Blais

Marie-Claire Blais, (born 5 October 1939 in Quebec City) is a French Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Quebec.

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Marie-France Bazzo

Marie-France Bazzo (born July 8, 1961) is a Canadian broadcaster, who has hosted television programming for Télé-Québec and radio programming for the Ici Radio-Canada Première network.

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Marie-Louise Arsenault

Marie-Louise Arsenault is a Canadian radio personality, who hosts the literary talk show Plus on est de fous, plus on lit! on Ici Radio-Canada Première.

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Marie-Sissi Labrèche

Marie-Sissi Labrèche (born 1969 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian writer, most noted as the cowriter of the 2008 film Borderline.

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Marina Endicott

Marina Endicott (born in 1958) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.

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Marina Nemat

Marina Nemat (مارینا نِمت, Марина Немат; born 22 April 1965 in Tehran) is the author of two memoirs about her life growing up in Iran, serving time in Evin Prison for speaking out against the Iranian government, escaping a death sentence and finally fleeing Iran for a new life in Canada.

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Mark Sakamoto

Mark Sakamoto is a Canadian lawyer and writer.

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Martha Wainwright

Martha Wainwright (born May 8, 1976) is a Canadian-American folk-rock singer-songwriter.

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Mary Walsh (actress)

Mary Cynthia Walsh (born May 13, 1952) is a Canadian actress, comedian and social activist.

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Mathyas Lefebure

Mathyas Lefebure is the pen name of Mathieu Lefebvre,.

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Maureen McTeer

Maureen Anne McTeer (born February 27, 1952) is a Canadian author and lawyer, married to Joe Clark, the 16th Prime Minister of Canada.

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Mavis Gallant

Mavis Leslie de Trafford Gallant,, née Young (11 August 1922 – 18 February 2014), was a Canadian writer who spent much of her life and career in France.

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Measha Brueggergosman

Measha Brueggergosman (born Measha Gosman; June 28, 1977) is a Canadian soprano who performs both as an opera singer and concert artist.

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Megan Follows

Megan Elizabeth Laura Diana Follows (born March 14, 1968) is a Canadian actress.

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Mercy among the Children

Mercy among the Children is a novel by David Adams Richards, published by Doubleday Canada in 2000.

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Michael Ondaatje

Philip Michael Ondaatje, (born 12 September 1943), is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor and filmmaker.

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Michael Winter (writer)

Michael Winter (born 1965) is a Canadian writer, the author of five novels and three collections of short stories.

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Michel Tremblay

Michel Tremblay, CQ (born 25 June 1942) is a French Canadian novelist and playwright.

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Micheline Lanctôt

Micheline Lanctôt (born May 12, 1947) is a Canadian actress, film director, screenwriter, and musician.

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Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews (born 1964) is a Canadian writer, best known for her novels A Complicated Kindness and All My Puny Sorrows.

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Molly Johnson

Margaret Leslie "Molly" Johnson, OC is a Canadian Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter of pop and jazz.

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Monique Proulx

Monique Proulx (born January 17, 1952 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter.

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Montreal Gazette

The Montreal Gazette, formerly titled The Gazette, is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, after three other daily English newspapers shut down at various times during the second half of the 20th century.

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Mordecai Richler

Mordecai Richler, CC (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian writer.

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Mozhdah Jamalzadah

Mozhdah Jamalzadah (born 11 August 1982 in Kabul, Afghanistan) is an Afghan singer.

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Nalo Hopkinson

Nalo Hopkinson (born 20 December 1960) is a Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor.

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Nancy Huston

Nancy Louise Huston, OC (born September 16, 1953) is a Canadian-born novelist and essayist who writes primarily in French and translates her own works into English.

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Nancy Lee (writer)

Nancy Lee is a British-born Canadian short story writer and novelist.

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Naomi Fontaine

Naomi Fontaine is a Canadian writer from Quebec, noted as one of the most prominent First Nations writers in contemporary francophone Canadian literature.

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Natasha and Other Stories

Natasha and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Canadian author David Bezmozgis.

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National Post

The National Post is a conservative Canadian English-language newspaper.

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Nelofer Pazira

Nelofer Pazira is an award-winning Afghan-Canadian director, actress, journalist and author.

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Netflix

Netflix, Inc. is an American over-the-top media services provider, headquartered in Los Gatos, California.

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Next Episode

Next Episode (Prochain épisode) is the debut novel by French Canadian author Hubert Aquin, published in 1965.

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Nicholas Campbell

Nicholas Campbell (born 24 March 1952) is a Canadian actor and filmmaker, who won three Gemini Awards for acting.

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Nicolas Dickner

Nicolas Dickner (born 1972 in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.

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Nikolski (novel)

Nikolski is an award-winning novel by Canadian writer Nicolas Dickner.

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No Crystal Stair

No Crystal Stair is a novel, published in 1997, by Canadian author Mairuth Sarsfield.

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Not Wanted on the Voyage

Not Wanted on the Voyage is a novel by Canadian author Timothy Findley, which presents a magic realist post-modern re-telling of the Great Flood in the biblical Book of Genesis.

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Olivia Chow

Olivia Chow (born March 24, 1957) is a former Canadian politician who served as federal New Democratic Party Member of Parliament for Trinity-Spadina from 2006–2014, and Toronto city councillor from 1991 to 2005.

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Omar El Akkad

Omar El Akkad (born 1982) is an Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist.

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On a Cold Road

On a Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock is the first book by Rheostatics guitarist David Bidini.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Oryx and Crake

Oryx and Crake is a novel by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood.

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Panelist

Category:Political terminology Category:Informal legal terminology Category:Television terminology Category:Radio terminology.

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Patrice Desbiens

Patrice Desbiens (born 1948) is a Francophone Canadian poet.

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Patrick Lagacé

Patrick Lagacé (born 1972, in Chambery, France) is a French-Canadian journalist for La Presse.

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Paul Cargnello

Paul Cargnello is a Canadian singer-songwriter and poet from Montreal.

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Paul Hiebert (writer)

Paul Gerhardt Hiebert (17 July 1892 – 6 September 1987) was a Canadian writer and humorist best known for his book Sarah Binks (1947), which was awarded the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour in 1948.

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Paul Quarrington

Paul Lewis Quarrington (July 22, 1953 – January 21, 2010) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, musician and educator.

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Pauline Marois

Pauline Marois (born March 29, 1949) served as the 30th Premier of Quebec (2012–2014) and was leader of the Parti Québécois (2007–2014).

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Pauline Martin

Pauline Martin (born 19 April 1952) is a Canadian film actress and television personality known for appearing in the 1989 film Jesus of Montreal.

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Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War

Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War (2001) is a historical narrative about the events of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.

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Perdita Felicien

Perdita Felicien (born August 29, 1980) is a Canadian retired hurdler.

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Perrine Leblanc

Perrine Leblanc (born 1980 in Montreal) is a Canadian writer from Quebec.

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Peter Kavanagh (producer)

Peter Gerard Kavanagh (June 12, 1953 – September 7, 2016) was a Canadian radio producer, television producer, and writer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and CBC Radio.

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Pierre Berton

Pierre Francis de Marigny Berton (July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history, and was a television personality and journalist.

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Pierre Lebeau

Pierre Lebeau (born 22 July 1954) is a Canadian actor.

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Podcast

A podcast, or generically netcast, is an episodic series of digital audio or video files which a user can download and listen to.

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Public broadcasting

Public broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service.

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Publishing

Publishing is the dissemination of literature, music, or information—the activity of making information available to the general public.

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Q (radio show)

Q (styled q) is a Canadian arts magazine show produced by and airing on CBC Radio One, with syndication to public radio stations in the United States through Public Radio International.

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Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

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Quill & Quire

Quill & Quire, a Canadian magazine about the book and publishing industry, was launched in 1935 and has an average circulation of 5,000 copies per issue, with a publisher-claimed readership of 25,000.

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Random House of Canada

Random House of Canada was the Canadian distributor for Random House, Inc. from 1944 until 2013.

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Rawi Hage

Rawi Hage (Rāwī Ḥāj) (راوي الحاج) (born 1964) is a Lebanese-Canadian writer and photographer based in Canada.

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Raymond Gravel

Raymond Gravel (November 4, 1952 – August 11, 2014) was a Catholic priest from the Canadian province of Quebec, who was formerly the Member of Parliament for the riding of Repentigny, as a member of the Bloc Québécois.

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Raziel Reid

Raziel Reid is a Canadian writer, whose debut young adult novel When Everything Feels Like the Movies won the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature at the 2014 Governor General's Awards.

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Réjean Ducharme

Réjean Ducharme (August 12, 1941 – August 21, 2017) was a Canadian novelist and playwright who resided in Montreal.

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Reading (process)

Reading is a complex "cognitive process" of decoding symbols in order to construct or derive meaning (reading comprehension).

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Richard Wagamese

Richard Wagamese (October 14, 1955 – March 10, 2017) was a Canadian author and journalist.

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Roch Carrier

Roch Carrier, OC (born 13 May 1937) is a French Canadian novelist and author of "contes" (a very brief form of the short story).

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Rockbound

Rockbound is a novel published in 1928 by Canadian writer Frank Parker Day.

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Rohinton Mistry

Rohinton Mistry (born 3 July 1952) is an Indian-born Canadian writer.

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Roméo Dallaire

Lieutenant-General Roméo Antonius Dallaire, (born June 25, 1946) is a Canadian humanitarian, author and retired senator and general.

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Ron MacLean

Ronald Joseph Corbett "Ron" MacLean (born April 12, 1960) is a Canadian sportscaster for the CBC and Sportsnet who is best known as the host of Hockey Night in Canada from 1986 to 2014 and 2016 to present, and is also a hockey referee.

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Ru (novel)

Ru is a novel by a Vietnamese-born Canadian novelist Kim Thúy, first published in French in 2009 by Montreal publisher Libre Expression.

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Rufus Wainwright

Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright (born July 22, 1973) is an American-Canadian singer, songwriter, and composer.

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Russell Smith (writer)

Russell Claude Smith (born August 2, 1963 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a Canadian writer and newspaper columnist.

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Saleema Nawaz

Saleema Nawaz (born 1979) is a Canadian author whose works of short fiction have been published in literary journals such as ''Prairie Fire'', ''PRISM International'', Grain, The Dalhousie Review, and The New Quarterly.

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Samantha Bee

Samantha Jamie Bee (born October 25, 1969) is a Canadian-American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actress, and television host.

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Samantha Nutt

Samantha Joan Nutt (born October 1969) is founder and Executive Director of War Child Canada.

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Samuel Archibald (writer)

Samuel Archibald (born 1978) is a Canadian writer.

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Sara Tilley

Sara Tilley is a Canadian writer from Newfoundland and Labrador, most noted for winning the Winterset Award in 2016 for her novel Duke.

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Sarah Binks

Sarah Binks is a novel published in 1947 by University of Manitoba professor Paul Hiebert.

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Sarah Gadon

Sarah Gadon (born April 4, 1987) is a Canadian actress.

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Sarah Slean

Sarah Hope Slean (born June 21, 1977) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, visual artist and occasional actress.

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Scott Thompson (comedian)

Scott Thompson (born June 12, 1959) is a Canadian television actor and comedian, best known for his time as a member of the comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.

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Self (novel)

Self is a novel by Yann Martel.

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Shad (rapper)

Shadrach Kabango (born July 18, 1982), better known by his stage name Shad or Shad K., is a Canadian alternative hip hop recording artist and broadcaster.

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Shake Hands with the Devil (book)

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda is a book by Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire of the Canadian Forces, with help from Major Brent Beardsley.

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Sharon Bala

Sharon Bala (born April 3, 1979) is a Canadian writer residing in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Sheila Copps

Sheila Maureen Copps,, (born November 27, 1952) is a former Canadian politician who also served as Deputy Prime Minister of Canada from November 4, 1993, to April 30, 1996, and June 19, 1996, to June 11, 1997.

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Sheila Watt-Cloutier

Sheila Watt-Cloutier, OC (born 2 December 1953) is a Canadian Inuit activist.

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Sherraine Schalm

Sherraine Schalm, formerly Sherraine Schalm-MacKay (born June 21, 1975), is a former top-ranked Canadian Olympic épée fencer.

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Simi Sara

Simi Sara is a Canadian radio and television broadcaster, currently a talk radio host on CKNW in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Sophie Cadieux

Sophie Cadieux (born August 25, 1977) is a Quebec actress.

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Stacey McKenzie

Stacey McKenzie (born in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Canadian fashion model, runway coach and most recently a model coach and judge on the Canadian reality television show Canada's Next Top Model.

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Stanley Park (novel)

Stanley Park is a novel by Canadian writer Timothy Taylor, published in 2001.

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Stephen Lewis

Stephen Henry Lewis (born November 11, 1937) is a Canadian politician, public speaker, broadcaster and diplomat.

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Steve MacLean (astronaut)

Steven Glenwood MacLean (born December 14, 1954) is a Canadian astronaut.

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Steven Page

Steven Jay Page is a Canadian musician.

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Susan Musgrave

Susan Musgrave (born March 12, 1951) is a Canadian poet and children's writer.

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Tahmoh Penikett

Tahmoh Penikett (born May 20, 1975) is a Canadian actor and martial artist.

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Tamara Taylor

Tamara Taylor (born September 27, 1970) is a Canadian actress.

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Tasha Kheiriddin

Tasha Kheiriddin (born June 25, 1970) is a conservative Canadian media personality, public policy analyst and commentator.

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Tegan and Sara

Tegan and Sara are a Canadian indie pop band formed in 1998 in Calgary, Alberta, composed of identical twin sisters Tegan Rain Quin and Sara Keirsten Quin (born September 19, 1980).

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Terry Fallis

Terry Fallis is a Canadian writer and public relations consultant.

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The Book of Negroes (novel)

The Book of Negroes is a 2007 award-winning novel from Canadian writer Lawrence Hill.

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The Colony of Unrequited Dreams

The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is a novel by Wayne Johnston, published on September 30, 1998 by Knopf Canada.

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities

The Death and Life of Great American Cities is a 1961 book by writer and activist Jane Jacobs.

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The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant

The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant (originally published in French as La grosse femme d'à côté est enceinte, and translated into English by Sheila Fischman in 1981) is a 1978 novel by Canadian author Michel Tremblay.

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The Film Club

The Film Club is a non-fiction book by Canadian writer David Gilmour.

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The Game (Dryden book)

The Game is a book written by former ice hockey goaltender Ken Dryden.

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The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.

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The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood,.

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The Heart Goes Last

The Heart Goes Last is a novel by Margaret Atwood, published by Penguin Random House September 2015.

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The Illegal (novel)

The Illegal is a novel by Canadian writer Lawrence Hill, published in 2015.

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The Jade Peony

The Jade Peony is a novel by Wayson Choy.

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The Last Crossing

The Last Crossing is a novel by Canadian writer Guy Vanderhaeghe.

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The Last Spike (book)

The Last Spike is a 1971 Canadian non-fiction book by Pierre Berton describing the construction and completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway between 1881 and 1885.

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The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches

The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (orig French La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes) is a novel by Canadian novelist Gaétan Soucy.

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The Love of a Good Woman

The Love of a Good Woman is a collection of short stories by Canadian writer Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1998.

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The Orenda

The Orenda is a historical novel by Canadian author Joseph Boyden.

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The Robber Bride

The Robber Bride is a Margaret Atwood novel first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1993.

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The Song of Kahunsha

The Song of Kahunsha is a novel by the Indian-Canadian novelist and playwright Anosh Irani, published in 2006 by Doubleday Canada and in 2007 in the US by Milkweed Editions.

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The Stone Angel

The Stone Angel, first published in 1964 by McClelland and Stewart, is perhaps the best-known of Margaret Laurence's series of novels set in the fictitious town of Manawaka, Manitoba.

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The Year of the Flood

The Year of the Flood is a novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, the second book of her dystopian trilogy, released on September 22, 2009 in Canada and the United States, and on September 7, 2009, in the United Kingdom.

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Thomas Hellman

Thomas Hellman (born 1975) is a French-Canadian singer, songwriter, radio columnist, and author.

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Thomas King (novelist)

Thomas King, CM (born April 24, 1943) is an American-Canadian writer and broadcast presenter who most often writes about North America's First Nations.

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Thomas Wharton (author)

Thomas Wharton, PhD (born 25 February 1963), is a Canadian novelist.

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Three Day Road

Three Day Road is the first novel from Canadian writer Joseph Boyden.

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Timothy Findley

Timothy Irving Frederick Findley, entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia.

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Timothy Taylor (writer)

Timothy Taylor (born 1963) is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, journalist, and professor of creative writing.

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Toronto Star

The Toronto Star is a Canadian broadsheet daily newspaper.

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Tracey Lindberg

Tracey Lindberg is a Canadian academic writer and teacher, from the Kelly Lake Cree Nation in British Columbia.

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Translation

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text.

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Trent McClellan

Trent McClellan is a Canadian stand-up comedian.

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Two Solitudes (novel)

Two Solitudes is a 1945 novel by Hugh MacLennan.

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Une histoire américaine

Une histoire américaine is a novel published in 1986 by Canadian novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker and poet, Jacques Godbout.

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University of Toronto

The University of Toronto (U of T, UToronto, or Toronto) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.

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Unless

Unless,唯一の美しい女性beautiful woman and first published by Fourth Estate, an imprint of Harper Collins in 2002, is the final novel by Canadian writer Carol Shields.

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Vandal Love

Vandal Love is a novel by American-Canadian author D. Y. Béchard.

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Vinay Virmani

Vinay Virmani (born January 24, 1985) is a Canadian actor.

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Volkswagen Blues

Volkswagen Blues is a French-language novel by French-Canadian writer Jacques Poulin, his sixth, which was originally published by Québec-Amérique in 1984 and was re-issued by Babel in 1998.

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Wab Kinew

Wabanakwut Kinew (born December 31, 1981),.

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Wayne Johnston (writer)

Wayne Johnston (born 1958) is a Canadian novelist.

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Wayson Choy

Wayson Choy, CM (崔維新 Pinyin: Cuī Wéixīn; Jyutping: Ceoi1 Wai4-san1) (born April 20, 1939) is a Canadian writer.

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Western Canada

Western Canada, also referred to as the Western provinces and more commonly known as the West, is a region of Canada that includes the four provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

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When Everything Feels Like the Movies

When Everything Feels Like the Movies is the debut young adult novel by Raziel Reid.

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Whylah Falls

Whylah Falls is a long narrative poem (or "verse novel") by George Elliott Clarke, published in book form in 1990.

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Will Ferguson

William Stener "Will" Ferguson (born October 12, 1964) is a Canadian travel writer and novelist best known for his humorous observations on Canadian history and culture.

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Yann Martel

Yann Martel (born 25 June 1963) is a Spanish-born Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi, a #1 international bestseller published in more than 50 territories.

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Zaib Shaikh

Zaib Shaikh (born 1974) is the City of Toronto Film Commissioner and Director of Entertainment Industries.

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Zoe Whittall

Zoe Whittall (born February 16, 1976) is a Canadian poet, novelist and TV writer.

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Zsuzsi Gartner

Zsuzsi Gartner is a Canadian author and journalist.

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