Word: canadas
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...left Boston a week earlier. My friends and I decided to charter a plane and go up to Canada to go to see a friend's film at the Toronto Film Festival...
First-time novelist Stef Penney won Britain's Costa Book of the Year award this month for The Tenderness of Wolves, a vivid portrait of life in snowswept Canada. The book's realism is particularly impressive since Penney has never visited the country. Suffering from agoraphobia, she could only make it as far as London's British Library to do her research. But fictional fudging is an illustrious tradition (Shakespeare almost certainly never left England, either) - and other acclaimed modern authors have gotten by with less meticulous research...
...some ideas, Europe could look to Canada, where immigrants make up 18% of the general population. Yet polls show that the majority of Canadians have a positive view of immigration. Some of this is thanks to the dedicated integration programs that local governments and ngos run. Support groups, counseling sessions, free language tuition, even buddy systems that bring immigrants together with born-and-bred Canadians all help smooth the transition for those coming to Canada and those who are there already. But the country is also picky about who it welcomes in the first place. Immigrants are selected using...
...status-phere," he says. "You have to take the plunge to expose your true self. If you're true to yourself, you'll turn someone on." Then he quotes Emerson's essay on self-reliance. And then the spiritual guru Eckhart Tolle, whom he's visited in Canada. Then he talks about his meditation practices. And the moment of his enlightenment. And how trying to fill a hole in yourself is pointless, since we don't have holes. And how time, man, time doesn't even exist. You don't need to bring many questions to a Jim Carrey interview...
...from gold-medal contention with a stunning upset in the semifinal round last February in Turin, Italy. Then it’s on to the week-long IIHF World Championship in the Winnipeg area, where the Americans hope to defend their first-ever world title, earned when they outlasted Canada in a shootout in 2005. Before that, the Stars and Stripes had claimed eight straight silvers at worlds. “I want to remind you of an often overlooked fact—we’re the defending world champions,” said Dave Ogrean, the executive director...