Composer Karen Young hears mother’s song in bell-like canon
Karen Young is busier than ever—composing, organizing gigs in a myriad of styles, and gearing up for a five-concert series starting in February.
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Music review: You Make me Feel so Young, Karen Young
With both insouciance and passion, singer Karen Young engages and entertains in the many facets of music she has explored.
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B’nai Brith heeds the call to shelter growing community
As the baby boom generation moves into life’s third stage, B’nai Brith is preparing for a spike in demand for affordable housing with plans for a second senior residence.
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Walking on ashes and bones, preserving Holocaust sites
“Those sites where nothing is on the surface are the most powerful. You don’t see the ashes and bones you are walking on, unless you pick up some earth and see bone fragments in your hand.”
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Activist, broadcaster Royal Orr wins Goldbloom Award
The election of Parti Québécois governments created convulsive events for Quebec Anglophones, but it allowed a new generation of community leaders to emerge.
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Filmmaker Garry Beitel views Canada through a lens of peace
Canada has a new posture on the world stage: With combat roles in Afghanistan and Iraq, Canada has dropped from being the most active participant in UN peacekeeping personnel to 68th.
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Red-hot jazz club Upstairs plans blowout 20th birthday party
It’s 10am on a Friday and the owner-manager of Upstairs Jazz Bar & Grill has been at work for almost an hour. He won’t leave until midnight.
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Anna Fuerstenber: From the darkest lives, the funniest moments:
For many who lived through the Second World War and its aftermath, the scars of lives uprooted and the joy of survival, combined with mourning those who did not, have the makings of an explosive juxtaposition.
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Book review: That Summer in Provincetown
As the world is transfixed by the flight of thousands of refugees from areas torn by war, hunger, and atrocity, we tend to forget that each individual represents a multi-faceted drama.
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Hana’s Suitcase arrives at Geordie on eve of their 35th
Hana’s story, hardly different from that of some 1 million Jewish children whom the Germans killed, would have gone unnoticed had it not been for the curiosity of some Japanese school children.
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