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Breakfast Speakers 2021

  • Breakfast Meeting January 16, 2021
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Breakfast Meeting May 14 , 2022

Kevin Donovan is the Toronto Star's Chief Investigative Reporter. His focus is on journalism that exposes wrongdoing and effects change. Over more than three decades he has reported on the activities of charities, government, police, business among other institutions. Donovan also reported from the battlefields in the Gulf War and the war in Afghanistan following 9/11. He has won three National Newspaper Awards, two Governor General's Michener Awards, the Canadian Journalism Foundation award and three Canadian Association of Journalists Awards. As the Star's editor of investigations for many years, Donovan led many award-winning projects for the paper. He is the author of several books, including "Secret Life: The Jian Ghomeshi Investigation" and the "Dead Times" (a fiction novel). Most recently he has been following the four year investigation of the murders of Honey and Barry Sherman who founded Apotex. He also published a book titled "The Billionaire Murders" an expose of this investigation.

2021 Poetry Contest Results

At our virtual breakfast meeting on Saturday, January 15, 2022, we announced the winners of the Claude Osmond Hodge Poetry Contest for 2021. We selected three three winners along with three Honourable Mentions. We want to congratulate the winners as well as everyone who submitted an entry. The talent displayed in all of the entries was inspiring and it was very difficult to rank them. 

First Place:             Ocean                                 Saskia van Tetering
Second Place:       Writing Journey            Lynn Xu
Third Place:           Meditation                       Jake Hogeterp

Honourable Mentions
Disintegrated Feather of the Slow War     Mandy Orchard
The Last Poems                                                         Husain Mehdi
Wink                                                                                Geetaa Sharma



"Ocean"
      This is an unusual poem in which the poet make an ingenious
comparison of the forest to the ocean using marine images to describe
the trees. The poem finishes with the original lines "the wildwood
learns to bend / And the trees swim on. . ."

"A Writing Journey"
     The writer takes us on a fascinating journey into dream to "the
edge of the universe where / the outer world rotates/ the inner" to
the ending it in place were time is transformed into eternity.
  
"Meditation"
      A playful, intellectual poem that teases the reader with its
ambiguous imagery and surprising provocative ending.
 
 
 
"Disintegrated Feather of the Slow War"
 
    In  this poem the narrator recalls the aboriginal rituals of her
childhood "The dancing enigmatic under stars and smoke / Feathers and
pipes, jingling, drums and falsetto voices." She describes teenage
suicides, Aboriginal women missing in BC, and the fight for land
rights. The poem concludes with the lovely idea of buying a
dreamcatcher which will protect her son from nightmares.

Between the Notes

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Jake Hogeterp has launched his new book “Between the Notes” about the impact of long Covid.

What could be worse than catching COVID-19? Not being able to shake it off and developing long COVID, for one. The symptoms mystified doctors as Rebecca’s condition continued to worsen during the summer and fall of 2020. As terror coursed through her soul, Rebecca’s family and friends provided help and support 24 hours per day.
Between the Notes is both an unnerving and heart-warming tale of how despair and courage battled within Rebecca during her year-long struggle. It is also a story of love and compassion as she discovered how strong and loyal her family and true friends were when she really needed them.

 

Pigeon Soup and Other Stories

RosannaMicelotta Battigelli is launching her new book “Pigeon Soup and Other Stories”.

Rosanna’s stories interweave themes and recurring characters into a marvelous tapestry of cultural expression and cultural dissonance. She negotiates these byways with warmth, insight, and a true mastery of narrative ellipsis.’ —Paul Butler, author of Mina’s Child and The Widow’s Fire
‘These stories have an intriguing and child-like gaze that also turn a spotlight into some very dark corners . . . this collection is pigeon soup for the soul that rewards its reader.’ —Darlene Madott, award-winning author of Making Olives and Other Family Secrets
‘Reading Pigeon Soup is like being spirited into a chiaroscuro small town, receiving a gift of sight that reveals all hidden shames and unseen heroism.’ —Donna Lee Miele, contributing writer,VIA: Voices in Italian Americana
‘An exquisitely crafted, engaging and lively collection of novelle… a reading to be savoured, much like anything that is fine in life.’—Gabriel Niccoli, Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo, editor of Ricordi: Racconti di vite oltreoceano and Patterns of Nostos in Italian Canadian Narratives.
Click here to listen to Rosanna read one of her stories:   https://youtu.be/BKRw4CsC210

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Poetry Contest Winners: Saskia van Tetering, Lynn Xu, Jake Hogeterp

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