Tag: Newfoundland

  • Newfoundland Off the Map: Michael Crummey’s Sweetland

    Newfoundland Off the Map: Michael Crummey’s Sweetland

    The demographics don’t lie. In a couple of decades, a generation at most, dozens of Newfoundland communities will have disappeared, and there seems to be no way to reverse the flow. Soon, all that will remain will be a ghostly assembly like the one that closes Michael Crummey’s Sweetland – a scene reminiscent of some…

  • Canada Reads 2013: And the winner is…

    Canada Reads 2013: And the winner is…

    It was the last day of Canada Reads 2013, the last chance for actor Jay Baruchel and comedian Trent McLellan to pitch their chosen books as the one all Canadians should have on their nightstands. And at 10:53 am, after a lively and sometimes venomous debate, the winner was declared: February, by Lisa Moore. “I…