Canadian Argument for Public Funding of the Arts
Following the news that the Canadian government is going to cut funding to five arts and culture programs (up to $20 million in funding), there’s an interesting piece in CBC News listing some of the arguments for why arts deserve public funding: It used to be, in the 1960s and ’70s, that the arts were ...
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The Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival
The Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival, which has apparently been going on for a while now, was just brought to our attention: The 10th annual edition of the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival will take place April 30–May 4, 2008 at the Delta-Centre-Ville Hotel as over 350 ...
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This will be a light Canadianization
Geist Magazine has a piece on a Spanish instructor at the University of Guelph who was hired to ‘translate’ an American-produced introductory Spanish book into Canadian. One U.S. textbook dismisses NAFTA with a photograph of a harried-looking Mexican woman leaning over a sewing machine, accompanied by the ...
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2007 Governor General’s Literary Awards
Yesterday, the Canadian Council for the Arts announced the winners of the 2007 Governor General’s Literary Awards. Awards are given out every year in seven categories—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, children’s literature (text and illustration), and translation(!)—to both a work in English and in ...
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