One.The National Ballet of Canada announced Monday that Alexei Ratmansky, the former artistic director of Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet, will choreograph its 2011-12 season production of Romeo and Juliet.
Two. Canada’s most important science fiction author spent years writing about the future. William Gibson, who coined the term cyberspace and wrote one of the most critically acclaimed [...]

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Life is very empty without jokes. Humor helps to get through a day, a month, a life. Humor heals the pain. It is wonderful when people smile. In every culture there are different traditions and things which they laugh at. This is a photo of a joke from Canadian humor.           [...]

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“What an interesting recipe of “Charlotte” a la Russ for Tsar Alexander III, isn’t it? And it is without a single apple, isn’t it?”, I address my questions to the creator of this tart, a professional cook from New Zealand, Carey Taylor-Forbes.                           [...]

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On that splendid winter February day of the fourth Rudy boy was born 50 years ago. On the photo to the left one can see a cheerful face of Rudy baby. To the right is a portrait of Rudy Lutz in the Russian Cossak Rudai costume in modern days.Listen to the Cossak song: “oisja- ty- [...]

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“They say, Tatiana, you were born in Urals, lived there most of your life. Is it the truth?, so I addressed my inquisitive questions to Tatiana Kotenko, a Russian lady who recently traveled from Canada to Russia.
Tatiana: Yes, Russia is my native land, Urals is my love. I visited city of Chelyabinsk, my mother’s village [...]

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