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Past Episodes: July 2008 Archives

July 27th and August 1st, 2008 - The Princess of Tomboso

This week on C'est la vie, sit back and enjoy a French Canadian fairy
tale.

Our Bilingual story teller Marylyn Peringer brings us "The Princess
of Tomboso."

It's a tale involving a beautiful but wicked princess, a foolish prince,
and what happens when the two meet.

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July 20th and 25th, 2008 - Translators Daniel Poliquin and Serge Rivest

Canadian Prime Ministers Jean Chretien and Brian Mulroney had very
different styles of governing the country.

They also had a different way of writing their memoirs.

And it turns out they also took a different approach to translating those
memoirs.

Meet the translators this week on C'est la vie.

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July 13th and 18th, 2008 - Documentary: "Adoption on the Islands"

Fifty-six years ago, a plane landed on a windswept archipelago in the
gulf of St-Lawrence.

It was carrying a precious cargo. Thirty-one young children, about to
start new lives with adoptive families on the Magdelan Islands.

One man witnessed that flight. And he dreamt of seeing those children
again.

Hear how that man's lifelong dream came true.

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