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Canada Reads American StyleWhen Place is a CharacterRebecca and Tara highlight books they've read in which the location or place is a distinct character in the novel.
Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):
True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between by Governor Gretchen Whitmer
Widow Fantasies by Hollay Ghadery
Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez / Scarborough, Ontario
Brother by David Chariandy / Scarborough, Ontario
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay / Hanging Rock, Victoria, Australia
The Street by Ann Petry / Harlem, New York City
My Ántonia by Willa Cather / Nebraska
Denison Ave by Christina Wong / Chinatown, Kensington Market
Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill / Toronto
The L...2024-08-1638 min
Radio Free Flint PodcastMidnight in the Vehicle City: The Strike Heard Around the WorldMidnight in Vehicle City by author Edward McClelland is a book that tells the story of Flint, Michigan, during the Great Recession and the struggles of its residents as they try to survive in a city that has been hit hard by the economic downturn. The story centers around autoworkers struggling to make ends meet and their challenges of working for General Motors Corporation in the 1930s. Those challenges included poor pay and working conditions.The author does an excellent job of capturing the mood and atmosphere of Flint during this time, and the characters are well-developed...2022-11-1533 min
Give Us Back Our CountryFill that seat: US Supreme CourtPresident Trump is right. The Constitution requires that he nominate a judge to fill the vacancy with the advice and consent of the Senate. He went to the 2016 election with a list of sound und lawyers from which he would make appointments. It’s important that the vacancy be filled before the election so that the court is able to hear properly cases disputing the counting in the election.2020-09-2208 minGive Us Back Our CountryWhy do the Australian media publish anti-Trump propaganda, even lies, as news?The American alliance is the most important international relationship Australia has. Without the United States as a dominant power, the world will be a very unfriendly place. So why do theAustralian media constantly publish anti-Trump propaganda as if it were the news? The invention by Goldberg about what Trump allegedly said about the war dead is just as much a lie as the story that he praised white supremacists and neo-Nazis at Charlottesville.2020-09-2208 minGive Us Back Our CountrySPEECH THE PRIME MINISTER SHOULD MAKE. NOW!Having heard the recent speech by the Prime Minister to the National Press Club, we suggest that with the Wuhan coronavirus crisis lockdown being gradually lifted, it would be timely to address the nation on some of the major problems facing the nation . It is relevant to note that all of these were either been created or made significantly worse by the politicians.2020-06-1102 min
Benjamin Britten: musica per gli esseri umani5 Each man kills the things he loves
Benjamin Britten, Thou hast made me da The Holy Sonnets of John Donne op. 35, Peter Pears tenore, Benjamin Britten, pianoforte
Benjamin Britten, estratti da Billy Budd op. 50, opera in due atti, libretto di Edward Morgan Forster e Eric Crozier da Herman Melville; Billy Budd: Peter Glossop – Capitano Edward Fairfax Vere: Peter Pears – John Claggart: Michael Langdon – Mr. Redburn: John Shirley-Quirk – Mr. Ratcliffe: David Kelly – Mr. Flint: Bryan Drake – Red Whiskers: Gregory Dempsey – Donald: David Bowman – Dansker: Owen Brannigan – Cabin Boy: Robert Tear; Ambrosian Opera Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, direttore Benjamin Britten
2020-05-291h 02Give Us Back Our CountryRESTART AUSTRALIA-.NOWThe politicians wouldn’t use world’s best practice. Deaths from the Wuhan coronavirus were 20 times what they should’ve been. The people had to suffer the lockdown, not the politicians. At least they should now restart Australia. The cure should never again be worse than the disease2020-05-1805 minGive Us Back Our CountryPoliticians turn Wuhan virus into economic and human disasterMassive unemployment, business closures and near house arrests were not necessary. We could have had far fewer deaths if the politicians had not been so close to the Beijing communists.2020-04-2902 minGive Us Back Our CountryNO 1 NATIONAL ISSUES: Politicians’ new luxury limousine fleet & massive grant to wind farmsRather than the real issues, we have the announcement of a new luxury limousine fleet to save us money, as well as $1 billion for the mainly foreign wind farm owners on top of the massive subsidy they already receive.2020-01-0206 minGive Us Back Our CountryPeter Costello: That excuse for losing the 1999 referendum is yet another republican mythSeveral reasons are advanced for the defeat of the referendum for the politicians’ republic. They’re all myths.2020-01-0106 minGive Us Back Our CountryTony Abbott fighting bushfires. A great Australian.Just before Christmas, Tony Abbott was seen with his volunteer brigade at a petrol station in the NSW Southern Highlands. Photos taken by members of the public went viral as did posts on a Facebook page.2019-12-2805 minGive Us Back Our CountryBUSHFIRES. ITS NOT CLIMATE CHANGE. ITS THE POLITICIANS.The problem with bushfires in Australia is not climate change. It’s the politicians.2019-12-2608 minGive Us Back Our CountryPolitician, thy name is hypocrisyAfter destroying manufacturing and fishing, and in the process of destroying agriculture, will Australia’s politicians obey the warmists and next move on mining?2019-12-1912 min