Canada Reads is back! This year, the great Canadian book debate is looking for one book to shift your perspective.
The stories we tell, and the way we tell them, can shape how we see ourselves, our communities and the world. This collection of books is an opportunity to broaden our horizons, expand our worldview and think differently about the world around us and our place in it.
Hassan is an actor, comedian and host of CBC Radio’s Laugh Out Loud and a frequent guest host of As it Happens and Q. He can also be seen in his TV roles on Designated Survivor, Odd Squad and the CBC shows Sort ofand Run the Burbs.
He recently became an author as well, publishing his comedic memoir Is There Bacon in Heaven? in fall 2022.
The year 2023 marks the 22nd edition of Canada Reads.
Canada Reads premiered in 2002. The first winning book was In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje, which was defended by musician Steven Page. In 2021, CBC Books put together a retrospective to look back at the show’s biggest moments and its impact on Canadian literature.
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When Ravalika Kurumilla, in the second year of a data science engineering master’s program, was searching for her first co-op at Northeastern, she knew what she didn’t want: a work-while-you-learn opportunity that didn’t allow co-ops to live and bond together like a family.
“With most co-ops you have to work only with the people in your department, but Ancestry has this rule that co-ops must stay together and get to know each other,” she says of Ancestry.com, the Utah-based family tree and genetic testing company where she has been working in data analytics.
Another perk that surprised Kurumilla was that the company provided living accommodations for several months in a nearby hotel as a place for co-ops to connect and socialize. “It helped us share experiences and motivated us a lot to work better, and it helped them by having all of us in the same place rather than scattered throughout the U.S.,” she says.
There were about 40 people of different nationalities from a variety of U.S. colleges and universities in her group. They were given mentors and managers to guide them through their time with the company during the summer of 2021.
“They knew what co-ops needed in terms of training, and that was really interesting,” says Kurumilla, who estimates that about 20% to 30% of co-ops eventually move into full-time positions at Ancestry.
Her in-person training in Utah later morphed into a remote co-op from Boston, where today she works on a…
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Have you ever wondered who you are or where you come from?
I think it’s a fundamental human desire to want to know.
One way we’re seeing this curiosity play out is in the rise of the at-home DNA ancestry business. You’ve probably seen the ads for tests like 23andme and Ancestry DNA: you spit in a tube, and then receive a report breaking you down into neat little slices in a pie chart telling you that you’re, say, 30 per cent German and 70 per cent English. As a population geneticist, I find this fascinating.
But how does our collective interest in ancestry testing interact with our ideas and conversations about race?
‘No borders within us’
Earlier this year a Mexican airline, Aeromexico, ran a tongue-in-cheek ad campaign, called “DNA Discounts” with the slogan “there are no borders within us”. For the ad campaign they gathered a group of North Americans who were willing to take a DNA test and get their results on camera. This group contained some members with, let’s just say, a somewhat negative view of Mexico.
In the ad, the airline offered rewards to these people based on their DNA results, in the form of a discounted airline ticket to Mexico. The size of the discount depended on the amount of Mexican ancestry. If their test showed 15 per cent Mexican ancestry, that meant a 15 per cent discount.
The process of extracting ancestry from DNA is scientific but the numbers themselves are estimates.
The footage of people getting their results on camera is pretty funny, and some of…
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The body of teenager Stacey Lyn Chahorsk was found on December 16 1988 around five miles away from the Alabama State Line in Dade County, Georgia.
Now, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) say a man called Henry Fredrick Wise, who went by the name Hoss Wise, was responsible for the murder.
Wise, who would have been 34 at the time of the killing, died in 1999 after being involved in a car accident at Myrtle Beach Speedway in South Carolina, where he burnt to death, the GBI has said.
Keri Farley, FBI Atlanta’s special agent in charge said: “This case is key because it is the first that we know of that investigative genealogy was used to identify both the victim and the killer.”
Stacey Lyn Chahorski was found dead in 1988 but wasn’t identified until earlier this year. Credit: GBI
The case had been particularly troublesome for cops to solve, because when it was discovered more than 30 years ago, Chahorski’s body was beyond recognition.
A forensic artist from the (GBI) made composites and clay rendering in an attempt to recreate what the teen would have looked like, but it wasn’t until March this year that her identity was finally revealed.
With Chahorski’s identity confirmed, GBI officers worked with the FBI using genealogy DNA testing and received positive results on the killer’s profile.
They began to interview family members and obtained DNA swabs for comparison to the profile created through genealogy DNA and identified Wise as the killer.
Wise had a…
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An age-progression photo of Sabrina on Marlene Aisenberg’s phone.
TAMPA, Fla. – In a house in Maryland, a room sits filled with trinkets and toys bought for a little girl who never got to play with them. In the basement, lies a cedar closet full of baby clothes that were never worn. Throughout the house are photos of a baby who never set foot inside the residence.
Sabrina Aisenberg disappeared from her crib in Valrico, Florida, on November 24, 1997, when she was just five months old.
According to reports, her mother, Marlene Aisenberg, told authorities she last saw the little girl when she checked on her in her crib around midnight.
But, when she got up the morning of November 24, the baby and her blanket were gone, launching Hillsborough County’s most widely-known and controversial missing person cases.
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Five-month-old Sabrina Aisenberg is captured trying to crawl on home videos days before she vanished from her crib.
Today, the Aisenbergs tell FOX 13 News they still believe their daughter will be found, clinging to hope as cold cases are cracked with new technology in DNA and genealogy.
If found, Sabrina would be a 25-year-old woman with a story the world would be eager to hear.
The Disappearance
Baby Sabrina vanished three days before Thanksgiving. According to reports, when Marlene Aisenberg woke up on November 24, 1997, her baby was missing from her crib along with a handmade blue and yellow…
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When their eldest daughter left California to attend Northeastern University in Boston, Nicole and John Nadolenco found a way to stay connected and participate in her experience.
They joined the Parents Leadership Council, a volunteer group of Northeastern parent ambassadors who engage in community outreach, provide feedback on university activities and communications, and contribute philanthropic support.
“We truly believe that we stand on the shoulders of giants, of the parents who have come before us, who have helped the university along the way and made these kinds of opportunities available to our kids,” says John Nadolenco, lawyer and managing partner at Mayer Brown in Los Angeles. “It’s our turn to step up and do the same not just for our kids now, but also for future generations of Northeastern students and families.
When John talks about Northeastern, he often speaks about the cutting edge, unique vision of education that the university has, its innovative curriculum and programs along with the amazing experiential learning connections that his family has experienced firsthand through their daughter, Jordan.
“Northeastern to me is just so progressive and changing with what these kids actually want today,” says Nicole, who formerly worked in TV broadcasting at NBC. “If I were to do school over again, I would be going to Northeastern. It has that flexibility and that vision of the future.”
John and Nicole Nadolenco,…
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The family of a California lawyer who died Saturday after a fall at a Mexican resort where he was celebrating his one-year wedding anniversary with his wife believes that he was “the victim of a brutal crime.”
Elliot Blair, 33, was staying at Las Rocas Resort and Spa in Rosarito — just south of the Pacific Coast border city of Tijuana — when the incident occurred. Blair and his wife, Kimberly Williams, have been public defenders in Orange County since 2017, according to a GoFundMe fundraiser set up for Williams.
According to a statement posted in a Tuesday update from the Blair and Williams families on the GoFundMe page, Blair’s family “is absolutely reeling from the tragic death of this amazing young man who was in Rosarito Beach celebrating his first wedding anniversary.”
“The family, which has extensive legal training in criminal law, wholeheartedly believes based on their initial investigation, that Elliot was the victim of a brutal crime,” the statement continues. “We are sorry that it has taken so long to release a statement, as the family was hopeful of promised information by the Mexican authorities. However, it appears that information isn’t going to be directly disseminated to the family.”
That statement adds that “the family is devastated that since this incident, no one from the Rosarito Beach Police Department, their district attorney’s office, or any…
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TIJUANA (Border Report) — Mexico needs U.S. border officials to remove physical barriers and move officers to inspection booths in order to help get commuters through the San Ysidro Port of Entry a lot quicker.
It’s part of a pilot program meant to ease wait times at the border, and despite a lackluster launch that actually made things worse on Tuesday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection remains non-committal, saying it was “the Mexican government’s program.”
Mexican officials, including Tijuana Mayor Monserrat Caballero, say they are giving the pilot program two more weeks to show it will work.
The plan calls for a checkpoint on the Mexican side where commuters must show their travel documents long before they get to the U.S. port of entry. The screenings are being conducted by Mexican police officers, National Guard troops and customs agents at a checkpoint just south of the border.
However, CBP already operates its own immigration checkpoint about 100 yards from the actual inspection booths, in an area often referred to as the “yellow line” — the official boundary between the U.S. and Mexico.
CBP officers stationed on the yellow line guard gaps along a fence and barrier system to prevent migrants from forcing their way onto the U.S. territory, where they can ask for asylum. Under the new program, Mexcian officials would provide some of that security.
A Long Beach police detective and two FBI agents showed up at Roxanne Jones’ door in late September and told her she was a familial match with a boy’s body that for 44 years law enforcement only knew as “John Doe 1978.”
It would be a sibling, they said, and showed her a photo.
The 63-year-old San Bernardino County resident immediately solved the decades-old mystery — her younger brother, Kenneth Nevada Williams.
Kenny.
On Wednesday, Dec. 14, Long Beach police named the 15-year-old as the 1978 victim, which was determined by using genealogy technology. His body had been found on Division Street near Corona Avenue, a residential street in Belmont Shore, on June 3 that year.
Detectives, not knowing the name of the victim, had continued working over the years to find his killer, they said Wednesday, with convicted serial killer Randy Kraft once considered but ruled out.
Williams had run away from his La Puente home multiple times, Jones said, but not because he was upset with his family.
“Once he hit puberty, he just kind of started to want to go out and be on his own,” she said. “We lived in the suburbs and my mother, father and step-father all worked. We had responsibilities. But he didn’t want that life, he didn’t want to go to school, he wanted to find something fun to do.”
So the last time Williams ran away, in 1978, Jones and others in the family that included another older sister of his and a younger half-brother and half-sister thought he had…
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Fodors Travel says Greenville is the South Carolina city to visit.
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Charleston and Greenville were listed among 52 places around the world as places to visit in 2023 by The New York Times.
Greenville was listed as 14th, Charleston 32. They were two of 10 U.S. locales on the list.
First place was London, which The Times said offers something for everyone as it undergoes a transition citing new shopping, entertainment and history opportunities and of course the monarchy itself with the coronation of King Charles III.
Of Greenville, lifestyle journalist and podcaster Ari Bendersky wrote, “Set in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Greenville has established itself on the culinary scene.
”The quaint city of about 70,000 has more than 200 restaurants — 85 percent of which are local,” he wrote.
He said people might visit Greenville for…
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