Jon Tattrie

Lori McKay’s Searching for Mayflowers finds Canada’s first quintuplets

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๐‘ฉ๐’๐’๐’Œ ๐’“๐’†๐’—๐’Š๐’†๐’˜ ๐’”๐’‘๐’๐’๐’”๐’๐’“๐’†๐’… ๐’ƒ๐’š ๐‘พ๐’“๐’Š๐’•๐’† ๐‘ต๐’๐’˜! ๐’˜๐’Š๐’•๐’‰ ๐‘ฑ๐’๐’ ๐‘ป๐’‚๐’•๐’•๐’“๐’Š๐’†. ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐˜†๐—ณ๐—น๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€: ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ง๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ฒ ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—–๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ฎโ€™๐˜€ ๐—™๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ค๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜€, ๐—ฏ๐˜† ๐—Ÿ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ถ ๐— ๐—ฐ๐—ž๐—ฎ๐˜†. Iโ€™ve spent the past 4 years writing a book about an unmarked grave and a lost Nova Scotian story, so I eagerly read Lori McKayโ€™s new book on her quest to find the … Read more

Sue Murtaugh’s We’re Not Rich is like inverted social media

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๐‘ฉ๐’๐’๐’Œ ๐’“๐’†๐’—๐’Š๐’†๐’˜ ๐’”๐’‘๐’๐’๐’”๐’๐’“๐’†๐’… ๐’ƒ๐’š ๐‘พ๐’“๐’Š๐’•๐’† ๐‘ต๐’๐’˜! ๐’˜๐’Š๐’•๐’‰ ๐‘ฑ๐’๐’ ๐‘ป๐’‚๐’•๐’•๐’“๐’Š๐’†, ๐’š๐’๐’–๐’“ ๐’‘๐’‚๐’•๐’‰ ๐’•๐’ ๐’‘๐’–๐’ƒ๐’๐’Š๐’„๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’Š๐’ ๐‘จ๐’•๐’๐’‚๐’๐’•๐’Š๐’„ ๐‘ช๐’‚๐’๐’‚๐’…๐’‚ I read Weโ€™re Not Rich with a flush rising up my neck. Was author Sue Murtagh WATCHING me? How else would she know I was thinking THAT?? Each story scrapes a layer off the BS of life and reveals … Read more

Learning the Art of Forgiveness in Chris Benjamin’s short story collection

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๐‘ฉ๐’๐’๐’Œ ๐’“๐’†๐’—๐’Š๐’†๐’˜ ๐’”๐’‘๐’๐’๐’”๐’๐’“๐’†๐’… ๐’ƒ๐’š ๐‘พ๐’“๐’Š๐’•๐’† ๐‘ต๐’๐’˜! ๐’˜๐’Š๐’•๐’‰ ๐‘ฑ๐’๐’ ๐‘ป๐’‚๐’•๐’•๐’“๐’Š๐’†, ๐’š๐’๐’–๐’“ ๐’‘๐’‚๐’•๐’‰ ๐’•๐’ ๐’‘๐’–๐’ƒ๐’๐’Š๐’„๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’Š๐’ ๐‘จ๐’•๐’๐’‚๐’๐’•๐’Š๐’„ ๐‘ช๐’‚๐’๐’‚๐’…๐’‚ ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐€๐ซ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐…๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐›๐ฒ ๐‚๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ž๐ง๐ฃ๐š๐ฆ๐ข๐ง Book launches are holy experiences that always leave me pumped up with secular joy. That was the case last week, when I attended Sue Murtaghโ€™s launch for Weโ€™re Not Rich. Some 200 … Read more

David Pate sings The Worst Songs in the World: The Terrible Truth about National Anthems

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Review of ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐–๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐’๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐–๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐: ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐“๐ž๐ซ๐ซ๐ข๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐“๐ซ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก ๐€๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐€๐ง๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฆ๐ฌ, ๐›๐ฒ ๐ƒ๐š๐ฏ๐ข๐ ๐๐š๐ญ๐ž. One of the most intimidating things I had to do as a reporter for CBC Nova Scotia was write a script for my TV news and then take it to David Pate for approval. He was always tough … Read more