Sunday September 23, 2012 at Queen's Park, 11am - 6pm
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11:30 - 1:00 :: The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks
The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks is a long-awaited and wonderfully eclectic essay collection from Stuart McLean that gives a glimpse into the thoughtful mind at work behind The Vinyl Cafe. From meditations on peacekeeping to praise for the toothpick, The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks runs the gamut from considered argument to light-hearted opinion.
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1:00 - 2:00 :: History of Canada Series
Join Margaret MacMillan as she discusses The History of Canada Series. The History of Canada Series looks at the making of Canada as an independent, self-governing nation, bringing history alive like never before. The series will focus on crucial turning points as well key stages, those defining moments when the course of Canadian history and the nature of Canada itself were oscillating. It is about the human beings – heroic, flawed, wise, foolish, complex – who had to make decisions without knowing what the consequences might be.
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2:00 - 3:00 :: Great Food at Home
Celebrity Chef Mark McEwan’s Great Food at Home contains 100 fabulous recipes that are easy to make and enjoy with family and friends in the comfort of home. Cook delicious comfort food like the famous Bymark burger or a mouth-watering lobster grilled cheese sandwich. Good Food at Home is comfort food simply at its best.
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3:00 - 4:00 :: King of the Road: True Tales from a Legendary Ice Road Trucker
Alex Debogorski
The highest-rated reality show ever to hit History Television, Ice Road Truckers follows the heart-pounding adventures of the tough-as-nails truckers who risk peril every day to deliver goods and supplies in Alaska and across Canada's frozen north. Alex Debogorski shares tales of his adventures, and misadventures, in the north, and explains, in his own entertaining voice, how he got to where he is today-- a working-class hero, bona fide celebrity, and the improbable star of a smash-hit television show.
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4:00 - 5:00 :: Watch
Blind from birth, Caitlin Decter received the gift of sight with the aid of a signal-processing retinal implant. The technology also gave her an unexpected side effect—the ability to “see” the digital data streams of the World Wide Web. And within the Web she perceived an extraordinary presence, and woke it up. It calls itself Webmind… Learn more about Robert J. Sawyer.
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5:00 - 6:00 :: The Book of Awesome
The Book of Awesome presents simple pleasures for a younger, hipper generation. From the smell of gasoline to fixing electronics by smacking them to the extra time you get when the clocks roll back, author Neil Pasricha reminds readers of little things that make us smile everyday.
