Articles tagged with: Joseph Planta
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The editor of the Vancouver Observer, veteran journalist Linda Solomon talks to Joseph Planta about her website, journalism, civic engagement, blogs and blogging, and the unique media landscape in Vancouver.
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The political strategist Jonathan Ross discusses his new website CivicScene.ca, the surfeit of political websites and blogs covering municipal affairs in Vancouver, how the current mayor Gregor Robertson and his council are doing, the HST debate in British Columbia, and the Liberal Party of Canada under Michael Ignatieff.
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The novelist Lori Lansens talks to Joseph Planta about her new book, The Wife’s Tale (Knopf, 2009), a story about an obsese woman’s search for her husband who’s left her and the search for herself; as well, Lansens discusses moving from Canada to California, her writing and reading habits, and interacting with her readers at book clubs and elsewhere.
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The host and curator of Books on the Radio, Sean Cranbury talks to Joseph Planta about the site, his interviews with authors and those in the book trade, his reading habits, and more.
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For Thanksgiving, and with a baby on the way, Vancouver comedian Patrick Maliha talks to Joseph Planta about various subjects, including Bronson Pinchot and the old Perfect Strangers sitcom, stand up comedy in Vancouver, radio, and more.
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The spiritualist and thinker Matthew Fox discusses his recent book, The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine (New World Library, 2009) with Joseph Planta.
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The Globe and Mail’s Ian Brown discusses his new memoir The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for His Disabled Son (Random House, 2009), a heart-rending yet uplifting chronicle of his son’s life with cardiofaciocutaneous (CFC), a rare genetic disorder.
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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.
