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...Ont., Canada...
...means unique. In June jurors awarded a record $7 million in damages to the family of Carolyn Ann Lord, who died from being given nitrous oxide instead of oxygen at the Southmore Medical Center in Pasadena, Texas. Four years ago, 14 deaths resulted from a similar incident in Sudbury, Ont. That led Canada to create strict new national regulations governing the testing of such hospital pipes. The U.S. has no similar regulation...
Time has not appreciably weakened the old spellbinder's grip. Man and Superman is 74 years old; yet playgoers at Canada's Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., are sitting through a 5½hour uncut version of the drama with evident delight. In part, this confirms their good taste, for the production is handsomely mounted, adroitly directed and formidably performed. But it may be due to the fact that these days Shaw fills a newly felt vacuum in the theater. In recent years there have been plenty of playwright absurdists, psychologists, realists or surrealists...
...Toronto, Ont...
...25th season of the Stratford Festival coincides with the Silver Jubilee of England's Queen Elizabeth II, and Stratford, Ont., is proudly aware of it. The trumpets that herald curtain time at the Festival Theater sound a fanfare of brassy assurance, and the plays follow each other across the stage like a regal pageant. Canada built and has sustained a distinctive national theater, and that is fit cause for pride. Herewith, a sample of this summer's offerings...