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Sarah Polley explores her uprooted, twisted family tree
Two days after her 11th birthday, Sarah Polley lost her mother to cancer. The death came as a shock, even though her father and older siblings had watched Diane Polley battle the disease for months. As she grew up in Toronto under the care of her father,...
Tags: Entertainment, Celebrities, Stories We Tell (movie), Take This Waltz (movie), Movies
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Toronto imam provided tip in alleged Canada terror plot
An imam in the Toronto area came forward more than a year ago with concerns about one of the two suspects now charged with an alleged terrorism plot, an attorney who handled the tip said Tuesday. Toronto attorney Naseer Syed said the imam, who wants...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Prosecution, Islam, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice
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Uncertainty around Kent Nagano's tenure at Montreal Symphony
Kent Nagano's tenure at the Montreal Symphony Orchestra appears uncertain following reports that the American conductor will depart the orchestra when his current contract as music director expires in 2016. But the orchestra's management has vigorously...
Tags: Entertainment, Sweden, Culture, Arts and Culture, Munich (Germany)
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A kid's culinary tour of Quebec
When my husband and I decided to take our kids to Quebec, Canada, we made a pact to explore it through our taste buds. That meant no boring museums. No cultural tours. No long lectures. Just tasting and savoring local cuisine. It was a different kind of...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Passenger Cars, Walmart, Travel, Burger King
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Quebec restaurants criticized for using foreign words like 'pasta' on menus
From NPR's The Two-Way blog: A government agency in Quebec, Canada, has been criticized after informing a restaurant in Montreal that it should replace "foreign" words on its menu -- like pasta, antipasto and calamari -- with the appropriate French...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, NPR, Dining and Drinking, Restaurants
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Straight men more stressed, depressed than gay men, study says
A Canadian study on anxiety and sexual orientation suggests that heterosexual men suffer more depression and higher levels of stress than gay and bisexual men. The study, published Monday in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, involved 87 men and...
Tags: Minority Groups, Social Issues, Hydrocortisone, Stress, Medical Research
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Guest Column: What it means to 'man up'
The following guest column was written by Bill Wilson, a member of the Women's Resource Center Violence Prevention Team and local White Ribbon Campaign Committee. Man up. One hears this exhortation a lot these days, from friends, fellow gym rats, pro...Tags: Politics, Abusive Behavior, Elections, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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UPDATED: 14-year-old girl from Pennsylvania wrote note that led to kidnapping search
We just learned the person who police say wrote that kidnapping note is a girl under the age of 14. She was located in Pennsylvania and she is fine. She stayed at the hotel about 10 days ago and was never kidnapped. In the note the girl said she was...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Rentals, FBI, Kidnapping, Fires
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Young violinist Beilman already knows the score
When violinist Benjamin Beilman performs for the Candlelight Concert Society on Saturday, Nov. 10, at 8 p.m. at Howard Community College's Smith Theatre, he'll surely be one of the younger people in the house. That's because this 22-year-old Curtis...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Concerts, Radio, Music Industry, NPR
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Sometimes you really shouldn't leave home
MONTREAL — The following is what's left of my Quebec fall color story. Sometimes things don't quite work out. Thursday: Fly into Montreal, pick up a car and begin the three-hour drive to glorious Quebec City. Two hours into the drive, a tire...
Tags: Quebec City (Canada), Canada
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The Montreal munch
MONTREAL — For a certain kind of traveler, no visit to a new city is complete without a bellyful of local culinary delights. And though the Internet has made it easier to zero in on regional specialties, it also has amplified local food rivalries...Tags: Religion and Belief, Lifestyle and Leisure, Gravy, Politics, Bagels
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Native American saint stirs pride, skepticism
Associated PressSome traditional Mohawks are treating the naming of the nation’s first Native American saint with skepticism and fear that the Roman Catholic Church is using it to shore up its image and marginalize traditional spiritual practices. They see the...Tags: Religion and Belief, Politics, Arts and Culture, Customs and Tradition, Separation of Church and State
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