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U of G history professor Matthew Hayday says Ottawa’s Canada Day celebration is a great way to celebrate being Canadian. But it’s also a party designed and orchestrated by federal politicians to send their own messages to citizens. With the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attending this year’s event on Parliament Hill, partygoers may witness the beginning of a new relationship ─ or the new look of an old relationship ─ with Britain’s royal family. ...
          - by Teresa Pitman       (read the story)

A cognitive neuroscientist, Ellen Bialystok has spent almost 40 years learning about how bilingualism sharpens the mind.

Read the article published on May 30, 2011  on the website of "The New York TImes"

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A cognitive neuroscientist, Ellen Bialystok has spent almost 40 years learning about how bilingualism sharpens the mind.

Read the article published on May 30, 2011  on the website of "The New York Times"

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Knowing how to speak more than one language is very important in today's work environment, especially for those who plan to work abroad.

Please read the following article published on June 7 on "The Globe and Mail".

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Knowing how to speak more than one language is very important in today's work environment, especially for those who plan to work abroad.

Please read the following article published on June 7 on "The Globe and Mail".

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The University of British Columbia Press has just released a book edited by our own Norman Smith and James Flath (University of Western Ontario): Beyond Suffering: Recounting War in Modern China.

The University of British Columbia Press has just released a book edited by our own Norman Smith and James Flath (University of Western Ontario): Beyond Suffering: Recounting War in Modern China.

Congratulations to the finalists for this year's Trillium Book Award:

Paul Vermeersch, graduate of the second MFA in Creative Writing cohort, for his poetry collection, The Reinvention of the Human Hand (M & S)

Michael Winter, instructor, for The Death of Donna Whalen (Penguin)

Congratulations to the finalists in the separate Trillium Book Award for Poetry:

Jeff Latosik, graduate of the first MFA in Creative Writing cohort, for Tiny, Frantic, Stronger (Insomniac Press)