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Paintings by some of Canada's most venerated artists – among them Tom Thomson, Emily Carr, Jean-Paul Lemieux and A.Y. Jackson – failed to find buyers Tuesday night at the Joyner Waddington's auction in Toronto. Indeed, at press time, Joyner, one of the ...

From JAMES ADAMS, Globe and Mail,  26 Nov 2008

Harris sketch sets record

The sale of a rare Arctic oil sketch by Group of Seven founder Lawren Harris was one of the few high points of yesterday's auction of high-end Canadian art hosted by Sotheby's Canada in Toronto. Indeed, 60 per cent of the 225 lots Sotheby's had for ...

From JAMES ADAMS, Globe and Mail,  25 Nov 2008

For writer Hage, it's the same old story

Toronto Rawi Hage can be forgiven if he feels like he's living 2006 all over again. Much has been made recently of the eerie parallels between what the Montreal author experienced two years ago with Canadian book prizes and what has been happening this ...

From JAMES ADAMS, Globe and Mail,  21 Nov 2008

Toews lands $25,000 prize

Manitoba writer Miriam Toews's fourth novel, The Flying Troutmans, wasn't shortlisted for either the Scotiabank Giller Prize or the Governor-General's award for fiction this year - a double-barrelled feat her third novel, A Complicated Kindness, ...

From JAMES ADAMS, Globe and Mail,  18 Nov 2008

Art auctions: Will anyone pay these prices?

For the past 13 years, the resale market for Canadian fine art has been like the lyrics of that old John Lee Hooker song: Boom Boom Boom Boom. But, this week, auctioneers, consignors and art buyers are wondering if they will soon be singing another ...

From JAMES ADAMS, Globe and Mail,  17 Nov 2008

Canada Council won't revisit graphic-novel nod

The Canada Council for the Arts won't add Canadian illustrator Jillian Tamaki's name to the official list of nominees in the text category for this year's Governor-General's Award for children's literature. "We're a little bit late in the game" to ...

From JAMES ADAMS, Globe and Mail,  14 Nov 2008

'Everyone was gonna win it but me'

Going to bed at 3:30 a.m. on a weekday is never a good idea if you're a working man and you have to be up at 6:30. But that's precisely what Joseph Boyden did yesterday - and he did it for a very good reason: On Tuesday evening he was named the winner ...

From JAMES ADAMS, Globe and Mail,  13 Nov 2008

Boyden wins literature's Giller

TORONTO Three years ago, not a few Canadian book lovers were stunned when Joseph Boyden's debut novel, Three Day Road, failed to make the short list for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. A critical favourite and a big seller, it seemed a shoo-in for ...

From JAMES ADAMS, Globe and Mail,  11 Nov 2008

Soldier's play on the march again

Fourteen years after the conclusion of the "war to end all wars," Fergus, Ont., still did not have a cenotaph to commemorate the 45 young men that the town of 2,500 had sacrificed "for the Empire." No one was more irked by this than Norman Craig. ...

From JAMES ADAMS, Globe and Mail,  11 Nov 2008

Science Weekly podcast: After winning the US election, what will Barack Obama mean for science?

An extended US election special edition of the Science Weekly podcast. We analyse what Barack Obama's election means for the scientific community across the world.Lesley Stone, executive director of Scientists and Engineers for America gives her ...

From ALOK JHA, JAMES RANDERSON, ANDY DUCKWORTH, NELL BOASE, IAN SAMPLE, DAVID ADAM, Guardian Unlimited,  9 Nov 2008

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