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Catholic and Anglican clergy should take interest in the survival of their own musical heritage
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From Stoney Creek, Ontario, to Jennifer Saunders and Helen Mirren
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Mark your calendars for the next pub shindig in October:
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Culture writer and freelance journalist In Toronto. Books: Lost in Canada: An Immigrant's Second Thoughts (Sutherland House, 2022); All That Sang (Véhicule Press, 2016); Incidental Music (Inanna, 2012).
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