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Robert Priest

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Robert Priest (born July 10, 1951, in Walton-on-Thames, England) is a Canadian poet, children's author and singer/songwriter. [1]

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Alannah Myles

Alannah Myles (born December 25, 1958) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and the daughter of Canadian broadcast pioneer William Douglas Byles (1914–1988), who was inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' Hall of Fame in 1997.

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Aphorism

An aphorism (from Greek ἀφορισμός: aphorismos, denoting "delimitation", "distinction", and "definition") is a concise, terse, laconic, and/or memorable expression of a general truth or principle.

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Barbara Gowdy

Barbara Gowdy, CM (born 25 June 1950) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.

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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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Canadian Children's Book Centre

Canadian Children's Book Centre (CCBC) is a national non-profit organization that dedicates its resources to promoting quality Canadian children's literature to parents, librarians, teachers, and youth across Canada.

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Canadians

Canadians (Canadiens / Canadiennes) are people identified with the country of Canada.

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CBC Radio

CBC Radio is the English-language radio operations of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Farmers' Almanac

Farmers' Almanac is an annual North American periodical that has been in continuous publication since 1818.

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Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award

The Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award was a Canadian literary award given to Canadian plays produced by any professional Canadian theatre company, and having performances in the Toronto area.

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John Robert Colombo

John Robert Colombo, CM (born March 24, 1936) is a Canadian author, editor, and poet.

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Leon Rooke

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

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Now (newspaper)

Now (styled as NOW), also known as NOW Magazine, is a free alternative weekly newspaper and online publication in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Poetry

Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.

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Robert Sward

Robert Sward (born 1933) is an American and Canadian poet and novelist.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.

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Scarborough, Toronto

Scarborough (2011 Census 625,698) is an administrative district and former city in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Sesame Street

Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry.

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Song Instead of a Kiss

"Song Instead of a Kiss" is a ballad by Canadian pop-rock artist Alannah Myles, released as the first single off her second album Rockinghorse.

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Toronto Star

The Toronto Star is a Canadian broadsheet daily newspaper.

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University of Waterloo

The University of Waterloo (commonly referred to as Waterloo, UW, or UWaterloo) is a public research university with a main campus in Waterloo, Ontario.

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Walton-on-Thames

Walton-on-Thames is a large affluent market town located on the River Thames in the Elmbridge borough of Surrey, England.

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Women's Royal Naval Service

The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS; popularly and officially known as the Wrens) was the women's branch of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Priest

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