Canadian on marathon world walk, 4 yrs to go (Khaleej Times)
KATHMANDU - When Canadian Jean Beliveau had a mid-life crisis eight years ago, he did not have an affair or buy a fast car.
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Canadian on marathon world walk, has 4 years to go (Straits Times)
KATHMANDU - WHEN Canadian Jean Beliveau had a mid-life crisis eight years ago, he did not have an affair or buy a fast car. He opted instead to go for a walk - a 75,000-kilometre trek around the globe to promote ‘peace and non-violence’.
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Television stars in Antigua for debut of acclaimed film - AntiguaSun
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Television stars in Antigua for debut of acclaimed film
AntiguaSun, Antigua and Barbuda - 20 minutes ago Peter Williams, who was dubbed “one of Canada’s finest” actors by the Montreal Gazette, portrays Gene Wright in the film – a concerned social worker who … |
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REVIEW | Scattered People: Fatih Akin’s “The Edge of Heaven” (indieWIRE)
A German filmmaker of Turkish descent, Fatih Akin has made hybrid cultures and hyphenated identities his great subject. ” Head-On ,” his acclaimed breakthrough film from 2004, told a love story between two German Turks that wended its way back to the homeland.
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Actor let motherhood change her tune (Toronto Star)
Jen Gould’s second act is paying off. “Amazing, huh?” said the 37-year-old Montreal native, showing off the Children’s Album of the Year statuette dominating the mantle in the sitting room of the North Toronto home she shares with her husband, two children and an English cocker spaniel.
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Fatter tax break, weaker dollar stir flurry of flicks in New York City (New York Daily News)
Filmmaking in the city is at a post-Sept. 11 peak. Crews made 245 movies in New York last year, a 36% increase from 2002, said city Film Commissioner Katherine Oliver.
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Former Olympic swimmer’s trip to Germany stirs emotions of 1976 losses (Seattle Times)
Wendy Boglioli had moved on, or at least that’s what she kept telling herself. She was a member of the 1976 U.S. Olympic women’s swim team…
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Do it yourself: SIFF 2008 - Seattle Times
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Do it yourself: SIFF 2008
Seattle Times, United States - May 18, 2008 … Uptown); and in the post-World War II drama "A Secret," a prizewinner at the 2007 Montreal Film Festival (4 pm June 5, Uptown; 9 pm June 7, Egyptian). |
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Former Olympic swimmer's trip to Germany stirs emotions of 1976 losses - Seattle Times
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Former Olympic swimmer's trip to Germany stirs emotions of 1976 losses
Seattle Times, United States - 1 hour ago "I wanted to see that again, I wanted to go through that again," she said, wearing a Montreal Olympics necklace and packing her two medals, the relay gold … |
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Do it yourself: SIFF 2008 - Seattle Times
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Do it yourself: SIFF 2008
Seattle Times, United States - 1 hour ago … Uptown); and in the post-World War II drama "A Secret," a prizewinner at the 2007 Montreal Film Festival (4 pm June 5, Uptown; 9 pm June 7, Egyptian). |
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Jacqueline Bishop: Choosing the write way - Jamaica Gleaner
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Jacqueline Bishop: Choosing the write way
Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 2 hours ago As a junior at Lehman College, she spent a summer studying French in Montreal, Canada, at Concordia University; and a year living in Paris, … |
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Newsmakers (Winston-Salem Journal)
■ The eldest grandson of Queen Elizabeth II married his Canadian fiancee yesterday in a private ceremony at Windsor Castle. Peter Phillips and Autumn Kelly were married at the castle’s 15th-century St. George’s Chapel in front of 300 guests including the queen, Prince Philip, Prince Charles, and Phillips’ mother, Princess Anne. Prince Harry, the third in line to the throne, was also there. …
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