
Anna Asimakopulos
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Former news assignment editor at CBC Montreal, and longtime arts reporter.
Montreal, Canada
Joined November 2009
How I learned to love Greek folk dancing all over again.
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RT @SLeeMtl: SQ says a 24-year-old Montreal motorist was going 196km/hr in a 70 zone along Decarie Expressway near Édouard-Montpetit overni….
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RT @SLeeMtl: Memorial garden honours survivors of hockey coach's sexual abuse in Westmount, Que. @CBCMontreal.
cbc.ca
Westmount, Que., has inaugurated the Douglas Firstbrook Ellis Memorial Garden to honour the late Doug Ellis. He was among at least 15 victims of former hockey coach John Garland. The garden aims to...
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RT @SeanCarleton: In the 1990s, the RCMP launched a probe into residential school crimes in British Columbia. The final report has been mad….
thetyee.ca
In the 1990s, police in BC launched the only provincewide investigation of survivors’ reports of sexual assault and violence.
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"We just sat on the bottom on our knees and just let the shark come up and sniff us,"
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Divers John Brooks and Eric Peterson encountered the shark in waters near Fox Point Beach, about a 40-minute drive from Halifax.
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RT @CBCNews: Residents of a Quebec town say about 90 trees were cut on municipal property in front of the home of Bombardier's chairman of….
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Residents in the Town of Brome Lake, Que., say upwards of 90 trees were cut on municipal property in front of the home of Bombardier's chairman of the board to improve his view of the lake.
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RT @Murray_Brewster: Five Canadian soldiers suspended after Nazi salute video emerges #cdnpoli #CAF #hatefulconduct.
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The Canadian Army is now dealing with another incident of alleged hateful conduct that involves Quebec-based soldiers caught on video allegedly partying while some of them delivered Nazi salutes....
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RT @CraigBaird: On this day in 1925, Oscar Peterson was born in Montreal. One of the greatest jazz pianists ever, he was called the Maharaj….
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RT @ThomasGerbet: Le retrait des alcools américains commence à coûter cher à la SAQ. L'impossibilité de vendre ces bouteilles, d'une valeur….
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RT @EvanDyerCBC: Inexplicable discrepancies exist between Canadian government assurances that arms have stopped flowing to Israel, and both….
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The government of Canada is adamant — with certain, shifting caveats — that it has not allowed arms shipments to Israel since January 2024, and yet Israeli import data and publicly available shipping...
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RT @ToulasTake: “It’s very important that these spaces exist. It’s okay to do experimental not-so-polished art and it’s actually the beauty….
montrealgazette.com
Arts groups worry that a change of ownership could force them out of the Ste-Catherine St. location, said to house the largest concentration of galleries and studios anywhere in Canada.
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RT @adriearsenault: What a loss and what a remarkable woman…Elsa Lessard died at 103. One of Canada’s amazing “listeners”…codebreakers who….
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RT @CBCNews: BREAKING: Health Canada has issued a recall notice for more than 260,000 above-ground swimming pools sold in Canada since the….
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Health Canada has issued a recall notice for more than 260,000 above-ground swimming pools sold in Canada since the early 2000s after nine children drowned in the United States.
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