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...kids in the house did vote for Away from Her, since it was directed by Sarah Polley, who turned 28 this month; Polley also got a nomination for Adapted Screenplay. A slot for Best Actress slot was filled by Juno's Ellen Page, the 20-year-old Nova Scotian, and for Supporting Actress, Saoirse Ronan, 13, as the girl whose first view of sex shocks her into a lie that outlives its victims...
...experience made an appearance this weekend at Bright: senior defenseman Caitlin Cahow and junior forward Sarah Vaillancourt of the Crimson, and Canadian goalie Charline Labonte on the McGill side. For Harvard, Quebec native Vaillancourt registered a pair of three-point games against the Montreal-based Martlets, while native Nova Scotian Jenny Brine added an assist on Friday and a goal on Saturday. Labonte shined for McGill, as the accomplished netminder made things difficult for the Crimson with a 36-save performance on Friday and a 30-save outing on Saturday. “Anytime that you can play against...
Arguably one of the most original female artists on today's music scene, Sarah McLachlan's music is difficult to categorize, drawing elements from folk, blues, rock and even New Age. While Fumbling Towards Eastasy, her third album, was well-received the 26-year-old Nova Scotian has not yet reached super-star status...
...work force will be eliminated. This means the loss of the Canadian and the end of an era. Additional cuts affect thousands of riders across Canada, and their reaction was loud and indignant. "They've cut the Maritimes and the prairies adrift," cried Charles Crosby, mayor of the Nova Scotian fishing town of Yarmouth. "The railway was one of the things that held us together...
...MacNeil/Lehrer news team deftly links his early biography to the words and books he learned, to connections made. Born in Montreal but raised mostly in Halifax, Robert MacNeil was the son of a seagoing Mountie (in Canada's equivalent of the Coast Guard) and a Nova Scotian mother who delighted in reading aloud to her sons. MacNeil's first nonbaby words were "gin fizz" -- the name of a teddy bear. He recalls being amazed, on a rare trip aboard his father's corvette, that sailing terms derived from Viking days (coxswain, starboard) still have a defining role in modern navies...