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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

The new year promises a bounty of punditry in B.C.

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Liberal leadership contender Mike de Jong shows off his famous Christmas shortbread cookies. By Tom Hawthorn Special to The Globe and Mai...

Chuck Eisenmann, trainer of Littlest Hobo (1918-2010)

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Chuck Eisenmann, then with the Kearney (Neb.) Irishmen baseball team, shows off one of the stunts taught to his German shepherd, London, the...
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Monday, December 27, 2010

Wacky Bennett, 'full-time politician and part-time prophet,' ripe for political cartoons

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By Tom Hawthorn Special to The Globe and Mail December 27, 2010 VICTORIA His friends called him Cece, shorthand for the formal William...
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Doomed? Victoria's public libraries are booming

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This article is part of the Globe B.C.'s annual series examining "Things That Work." By Tom Hawthorn Special to The Globe a...
Monday, December 20, 2010

He forged a bond between the rainforest and the desert

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Elias Cheboud helped bridge Victoria to his native Ethiopia. By Tom Hawthorn Special to The Globe and Mail December 20, 2010 VICTORIA ...
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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Lloyd Gilmour, hockey referee (1927-2010)

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Lloyd Gilmour signals a two-minute delay-of-game penalty to the Soviet Red Army team. By Tom Hawthorn Special to The Globe and Mail Dece...
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Resurrecting the lost art of the mosaic

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Detail from Lilian Broca's 'Queen Esther Revealing Her True Identity.' By Tom Hawthorn Special to The Globe and Mail Decembe...
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Tom Hawthorn is a senior writer for the Government of B.C. He spent more than 40 years writing for newspapers and magazines in Canada and the United States. His most recent books are "Play Ball!," an anecdotal history of baseball in Vancouver, and "The Year Canadians Lost Their Minds and Found Their Country: The Centennial of 1967."
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