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Particularly in recent years, Canada has produced a number of musical groups who have been described as "comedy rock". Bands such as Barenaked Ladies, Odds, Crash Test Dummies, The Awkward Stage and Rheostatics are sometimes misunderstood as being strictly novelty bands, but in fact many of their songs use humour to illuminate more serious themes.
Carol Shields's The Stone Diaries won the Governor General's Awards in Canada in 1993, the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award. [149] In 2013, Alice Munro was the first Canadian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her work as "master of the modern short story". [ 150 ]
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Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada – biographies of Canadian architects and lists of their buildings from 1800 to 1950 "Canada Questions and Answers: Everything You Need to Know About Canada" by canadafaq.ca; The Canadian Encyclopedia – click on "people" for links to articles about Canadians; English/French availability
Statistics Canada provides free access to numerous aggregate data tables on various subjects of relevance to Canadian life. Many tables used to be published as the Canadian Socio-economic Information Management System, or CANSIM, which has since been replaced by new, more easily manipulated data tables.
June 23 – Laureen Harper, wife of Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper; June 24 – Barbara Underhill, pairs figure skater and World Champion; June 25 – Doug Gilmour, ice hockey player and coach; June 25 – Yann Martel, author [3]
Giller Prize for the best Canadian novel or book of short stories in English; Governor General's Awards for the best Canadian fiction, poetry, non-fiction, drama, and translation, in both English and French; Griffin Poetry Prize for the best book of poetry, one award each for a Canadian poet and an international poet
The face of print journalism in Canada is undergoing change. [42] Evening newspapers are no longer popular (one of the only surviving ones is tonight Newspaper ), while morning newspapers (including the Toronto Star , The Globe and Mail , the National Post , and free newspapers such as Metro and 24) have survived and continued to bring in an ...