Articles tagged with: Canada
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Blogger (www.ronamaynard.com) and former Chatelaine editor Rona Maynard joins Joseph Planta to discuss books, David Letterman, food, the state of magazines, and Thanksgiving, among other topics.
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Nathalie Cooke, the associate dean of arts at McGill University and editor of CuiZine: The (e)journal of Canadian Food Cultures, talks to Joseph Planta about the new collection she’s edited, What’s to Eat? Entrée’s in Canadian Food History (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009), an informative and fascinating look at Canada’s foodways.
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‘One of Canada’s top five political minds,’ the conservative commentator Gerry Nicholls, former vice president of the National Citizen’s Coalition, talks to Joseph Planta about Stephen Harper, the Harper government, conservatism in Canada, and the Libertas Post, which Nicholls is editing.
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Denise Chong, the Canadian author of The Concubine’s Children and The Girl in the Picture, talks to Joseph Planta, about her new book, Egg on Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship (Random House, 2009).
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The novelist and poet Thomas Trofimuk discusses his new novel, Waiting for Columbus (McClelland & Stewart, 2009), with Joseph Planta.
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Chef Jeff Crump, executive chef at the Ancaster Old Mill in Ontario, discusses the lavish cookbook he has co-written with Bettina Schormann, Earth to Table: Seasonal Recipes from an Organic Farm (Random House, 2009), with Joseph Planta.
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Security and privacy awareness expert Claudiu Popa, president of Informatica talks about The Canadian Privacy and Data Security Toolkit for Small and Medium Enterprises, which he co-authored with Nicholas Cheung, with Joseph Planta; as well they discuss the impact of security breaches not only on businesses but the consumer, with tips for the shopper and more.
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The economist and commentator Brian Lee Crowley, president of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, discusses his new book Fearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values (Key Porter, 2009), with Joseph Planta.
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TSN’s Hockey Insider Bob McKenzie discusses his new book Hockey Dad: True Confessions of a (Crazy?) Hockey Parent with Anjan Chaklader, filling in for Joseph Planta.
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The noted activist and author Craig Kielburger discusses his life’s work fighting child labour throughout the world, as well as We Day in Vancouver, Tuesday, 29 September 2009, and his new book The World Needs Your Kid: How to Raise Children Who Care and Contribute (Me to We, and Greystone, 2009), with Joseph Planta.

