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...native of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Dhand majored in biology, psychology and brain sciences and minored in English at Dartmouth...
...their one-hour April Fools’ Day special, the host flew to various cities, asking Americans about phony issues that any Canadian—or American with common sense—would easily rebuff. Example: “What do you think about the illegal rhinoceros hunt in Saskatchewan?” Or, “Canada’s been thinking about switching to the twenty-four hour clock. Right now we use a twenty-hour metric day. What’s your opinion?” Everyone from educated, empowered Northeasterners to Venice Beach rollerblade automatons gave...
...added luster in A Student of Weather (Counterpoint; 368 pages; $24) thanks to Canadian author Elizabeth Hays' deft variations on and additions to familiar themes. Two sisters, Lucinda, 17, and Norma Joyce Hardy, 8, fall in love with the older man who visits their father's farm in Saskatchewan during the 1930s to study local plants and Dust Bowl weather patterns. Maurice Dove ought to fall for the beautiful and virtuous Lucinda, who runs the household in place of her deceased mother, but it is Norma Joyce, plain and engagingly clever, who snares his attention over succeeding decades, never...
ABC/ESPN signed a $600 million deal for the television rights. The New York Rangers spent $68 million over the off-season on free agents. And their centerpiece, Theoren Fleury, came from Colorado, but it only had the Oxbow, Saskatchewan native because Calgary knew it couldn't resign...
...spring bloomed in our fair Saskatchewan community, I decided it was time for the school of which I am principal to have its first postwinter fire drill. I pulled the alarm, and the students quickly and quietly filed out. One student stopped me cold with a sincere question: "Did anyone go out to check to see if there was somebody with a gun out there before you pulled the alarm?" I will never conduct a fire drill again without remembering Jonesboro. JIM ROBSON Kincaid, Sask...