Matt Cohen Award Winner Announced Oct 20, 2009
King Leary received the Stephen Leacock Award for Humor in 1988 and the Canada Reads Award in 2008. Quarrington has also made a name for himself in the music, theatre and film industries. (Suite101.com)
Student stabbed in Toronto high school May 12, 2009
The stabbing took place in a Grade 11 class at Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute at 2450 Birchmount Road, one of 30 Toronto high schools with a designated police officer on the premises. The victim remained in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. (Globe and Mail)
Biography and Writing of Miriam Toe... May 12, 2009
Summer of my Amazing Luck was nominated for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humor and won the John Hirsh Award. A Boy of Good Breeding won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award and Swing Low: A Life also picked up the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non Fiction. (Suite101.com)
Bedtime stories Apr 1, 2009
This was followed by a 300-page book about our country written by Stephen Leacock. The choice of long books was a conscious one on my part, hoping that they would somehow grant us more time. (Globe and Mail)
