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Vote for your favourite Canada Reads 2019 book!
In the event of a five-way tie, the audience vote will be used to save one book from elimination.
24 high school students chosen to compete in national poetry performance competition
The 24 students were chosen from over 10,000 students from 1,400 schools across the country.
Meet the Canada Reads 2019 contenders
Yanic Truesdale, Lisa Ray, Joe Zee, Ziya Tong and Chuck Comeau are each championing the one book they think all of Canada should read. The debates take place March 25-28.
Lindsay Wong, Darrel J. McLeod and Kathy Page among 2019 BC Book Prize finalists
It's Canada Reads crunch time and our podcast is here to help
Who really wrote Nancy Drew? Cracking the mystery of the famous sleuth's author
Where I Write
How Holocaust survivor Max Eisen found access to his darkest memories to finally tell his story
5 books to read if you loved Brother by David Chariandy
Northern Ireland's 'brittle peace' doesn't face up to atrocities of the past: author
The bestselling Canadian books for the week of March 10 to 16, 2019
Amanda Brugel on The Handmaid's Tale, fighting for good roles and rejecting stereotypes
'We will not look away': Ziya Tong and Max Eisen discuss his memoir about surviving the Holocaust
Where I Write
Writing her student's story terrified her, so Winnie Yeung tucked herself away in safe spaces
5 books to read if you loved The Woo-Woo by Lindsay Wong
In Conversation
Why Canada Reads panellist Lisa Ray loves books with lyrical writing and poetic prose
Canadians Jon Klassen, Eric Fan and Terry Fan shortlisted for CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal
Where I Write
Where did Lindsay Wong write The Woo-Woo? Anywhere and everywhere (even McDonald's)
Father-daughter duo pen book exploring how Haida principles can inform teaching
5 books to read if you loved Homes by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah & Winnie Yeung
Canada Reads 2019 panellists compete in a book jenga Q&A challenge
This author says reading to your children an hour a day could help the whole family
In Conversation
Rhonda Mullins on why being a literary translator can be both challenging and fulfilling
10 books by and about Juno Award winners that hit the right note
Canada Reads author Lindsay Wong on writing away the stigma around mental illness in memoir The Woo-Woo
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