Ted Barris
@tedbarris
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Author, journalist, broadcaster, retired Centennial College professor. Contributor to CBC, CTV, National Post, Zoomer, Air Force. Author 19 non-fiction books.
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Joined May 2010
@ScottRegehr In Victoria for public appearance on one of my books. Heard you ask CBC host Kathryn Marlow re: herons in Beacon Hill Park. I shot tis video on Saturday. Enjoy. Ted Barris.
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.@ebessner @loughtred @sportsnag @philipjalves Wondered why my car was the only one in the 630 CHED Radio parking lot (in Edmonton) for interview w/ host @JlynNye. No. It’s because I’m first in-person guest in the station since March 2020!
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@battisctv 80 yrs ago this fall, turning point in Battle of Atlantic - late ‘42 80% of convoy shipping losses when Cdns escorting. How did RCN corvettes, RCAF aircrews, & Cdn Enigma decoders turn tide? Bringing story w/ my new book to Hfx Naval Mus Sept 19. Interested?
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@grahamctv The eviction notice is unlawful? That's a new one... It's time for the police to charge the illegal squatters with trespassing.
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.@ebessner @loughtred @sportsnag @philipjalves Ever heard of an "interface fire"? Check out this week's Barris Beat to discover how interface fires - the wildfires that many rural centres are facing this week - may be as close as your backdoor.
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I escaped to a remote Ontario lake for some R&R last week. And as a guest at a wilderness property, I tuned in to what Ontarians at their cottages on
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As a public historian of Jewish Canada during the Second World War, I stood on the shoulders of giants, and professor #IrvingAbella was one of them. So sad to hear about his passing at age 82.
Irving Abella, who with fellow historian Harold Troper, became a household name in Canada for his withering indictment of this country’s war-era animus toward Jewish refugees escaping Nazi Europe, died July 3 after a long illness.
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.@CBCHereandNow Yes, Massey has featured Joni, Gord & Neil. But no one commanded hall’s stage & house with as much grace as Laura Nyro in Nov. 1969. Thx to her magical voice & hall’s unique acoustics she captured the world’s attention while serenading each one of us. Never forget
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.@ebessner @loughtred @sportsnag @philipjalves Just when weI thought there were NO NEW D-Day stories! Look what fellow author/podcaster Ellin Bessner and I found just in time for today's 78th anniversary.
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.@ebessner @loughtred @sportsnag @philipjalves Victoria Day holiday weekend F2 storm in Uxbridge came out of the sky in seconds last Saturday and right up my street. Barris Beat witnessed and survived to tell the tale.
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About midday on Sunday, nearly 24 hours after the storm that hit south-central Ontario, a cluster of people came walking down Balsam Street North toward
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.@ebessner @loughtred @sportsnag @philipjalves Movie cameras loved his villainous characters - Colin Thatcher, Windom Earle - but Kenneth Welsh was at his best on stage with just props and his command of Shakespeare. Barris Beat remembers.
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I can think of all kinds of memorable spoken quotations. Winston Churchill’s wartime proclamation, “We will fight them on the beaches…” Oprah Winfrey’s
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.@ebessner @loughtred @sportsnag @philipjalves At 9th annual Sam Sharpe Breakfast re: veterans' mental health, LCol (Ret'd) Christian Lillington spoke of a new pandemic - undeclared mental health disorders among veterans. Barris Beat was there.
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It was a morning dedicated to dealing with invisible wounds among veterans. It brought together former soldiers and first responders who are coping with
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.@ebessner @loughtred @sportsnag @philalves01 History tells us the D-Day invasion was the greatest amphibious battle & victory in WWII. It appears Canadians may have to fight a new battle on Juno Beach to save the site & museum. Read today's Barris Beat.
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It’s just 20 years ago I learned about the toughest battle of Fred Barnard’s life. On a spring morning in 1944, our Uxbridge neighbour (then just 22)
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Not yet perished • Ted Barris https://t.co/w29udBvuSo Want to understand why the Ukrainians are a tougher opponent to dislodge than Putin thought? Read this week's Barris Beat.
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The other day I spoke to a west-Toronto business group, but I learned as much as I informed that morning. Not surprisingly, during my talk about
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Ted Barris - author | journalist https://t.co/YioW6xrhHO Want to understand why the Ukrainian population is a tougher opponent that Putin expected. Read this week's Barris Beat - "Not Yet Perished."
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Ted Barris is an accomplished author, journalist and broadcaster. As well as hosting stints on CBC Radio and regular contributions to the Globe and Mail and National Post, Barris has authored 16...
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Here’s a wartime Xmas Eve story from 1943, you’ll think is fiction. Not! RCAF P/O Don Rollins’ logs show he flew a deadly nighttime anti-U-boat op over Bay of Biscay on Dec. 24, 1943, & survived mid-air collision. Check this week’s “Barris Beat" column
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Pilot Don Rollins likely missed it on the first reading of his overseas certification as a bomber pilot in October 1942. It was three years into WWII, and
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.@ebessner @loughtred @sportsnag @philipjalves At a time when Canada seeks models for our children, our diversity, our national spirit, and needs symbols to celebrate, can there be any better personality to adorn our $10 bill than Olympic Decathlon champion Damian Warner?
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.@JustinTrudeau At a time when Canada seeks models for our children, our diversity, our national spirit, and needs symbols to celebrate, can there be any better personality to adorn our $10 bill than Olympic Decathlon champion Damian Warner?
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Black English players racially abused after Euro 2020 final penalty misses https://t.co/k9uIzlQ8nH via @nbcnews If that’s the way British fans treat their players, I’ll never watch a British football match ever again.
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"The way we talk about race in this country is so poisonous, and you can't divorce that from the racism of the government," a professor of Black studies said.
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.@ebessner @loughtred @sportsnag @philipjalves Mistakes, we've made. Abuse, we've inflicted. Injustice, we need to address. But the Barris Beat, suggests, let's fix nationhood, not abandon it.
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It was the climax of the chapter, about a 19th-century military battle in western Canada. It was an important feature in my first non-fiction book,
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How this Canadian sheep farmer is riding out the current #IsraelUnderFire on a hilltop south of Bethlehem. Jenna Lewinsky, formerly of B.C. speaks to @TheCJN Daily's Ellin Bessner about rockets and getting a black eye from a scared young sheep. Full ep: https://t.co/wmjnymtr69
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