Friday, November 14, 2008 Vol 3 No 35 (149)
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It’s nice to be back. — 547 words
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She pressed 'control and 'enter' and disappeared from view. — 70 words.
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‘It’s the Veteran who salutes the flag' — 178 words.
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By The Reverend Hanns Skoutajan
By now the floral wreaths on the memorial cenotaphs all across this country are withering. Nevertheless, the words on the sashes accompanying them continue to remind us: “Lest we forget.” Lest we forget what? — 564 words.
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By Crawford Kilian
TheTyee.ca
November 11, 2008
The first Canadian war novels began to appear in 1915 and 1916, and for a decade they appeared in great numbers. Those novels (and their authors) are mostly long forgotten. But they conveyed, intentionally or not, a vivid image of a Canada now lost to us.
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‘We can’t solve our educational challenges when, according to polls, … one-fifth of Americans believe that the sun orbits the Earth’
By Nicholas D. Kristof
Op-Ed Columnist
The New York Times
Barack Obama’s election is a milestone in more than his pigmentation. The second most remarkable thing about his election is that American voters have just picked a president who is an open, out-of-the-closet, practicing intellectual. — 772 words.
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By Roger Cohen
The International Herald Tribune
NEW YORK — These are interesting times. Jobs are disappearing and General Motors is running out of cash. At the same time, the United States has assuaged some of its deepest wounds with the election of Barack Obama. We have less money in our pockets but more hope in our hearts. — 842 words.
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By Mike Heenan, Literary Editor, True North Perspective
(At Beechwood Cemetery for Lampman, Scott, Lett, Bourinot, Davin, Osborne ,Campbell)
Yes, there really were Salons,Virginia,
With real, hard Canadian poets,
Right here in Ottawa
On Daly, Elgin, Bank & Lisgar Streets.
Everywhere in town.
Hard by in Richmond, too. — 301 words.
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