Ladislara
A blog as diverse as my life has been
Tag: Canada
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Book Review: The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale
15 years after the events set in her best seller, Margaret Atwood takes us to the heart of Gilead and shows us the dirty powers at work
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Book Review: Dear Life
Nobel winner Alice Munro shares snippets of life in rural Canada in the 1940s
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Book Review: A Grandmother Begins the Story
A story about Indigenous heritage, told by multiple voices – and some issues with the Indigenous literature I have access to
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A day in the life of a truly multicultural city
How’s it like to bump into 10 nationalities per day in Toronto – and the struggle to pronounce people’s names
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Book Review: Daughter
A dark novel about living in the shadows of fame and manipulation
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The Insanity of Toronto’s Public Health System
Why I have to take a 4-hour back-and forth commute to get a prescription refill.
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The Comeback
Two decades after the closing of the last residential school, Natives from different backgrounds are aiming for post-secondary education
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