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3 Arts and literature

New books

Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry
In Search of America - Peter Jennings
The Last Crossing - Guy Vanderhaeghe
Lucky Man - Michael J. Fox
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World - Margaret Olwen Macmillan
Unless - Carol Shields
Negotiating with the Dead, A Writer on Writing - Margaret Atwood
Fences and Windows - Naomi Klein
School Spirit - Douglas Coupland
High Latitudes: An Arctic Journey - Farley Mowat

Awards

Yann Martel's Life of Pi wins the Booker Prize
Margaret Macmillan wins the Samuel Johnson Prize for Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
Books in Canada First Novel Award: Mary Lawson , Crow Lake
Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Austin Clarke - The Polished Hoe
See 2002 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Geoffrey Bilson Award: Virginia Frances Schwartz , If I Just Had Two Wings
Gerald Lampert Award:
Griffin Poetry Prize: Christian Bök, Eunoia
Marian Engel Award: Terry Griggs
Matt Cohen Prize: Norman Levine
Norma Fleck Award: Gena K. Gorrell , Heart and Soul: The Story of Florence Nightingale
Pat Lowther Award:
Stephen Leacock Award: Will Ferguson, Generica
Timothy Findley Award: Bill Gaston
Trillium Book Award English: Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe and Nino Ricci, Testament
Trillium Book Award French: Michel Ouellette , Le testament du couturier and Éric Charlebois , Faux-fuyants

Music

Joni Mitchell wins a Grammy for life time achievement

New music

A New Day Has Come - Céline Dion
Let Go - Avril Lavigne
Under Rug Swept - Alanis Morissette
Vapor Trails - Rush
Does This Look Infected? - Sum 41
Up! - Shania Twain

Film

Atom Egoyan's, Ararat is released

Television

Sesame Park, a Canadian spin-off of the American show Sesame Street, is cancelled due to low ratings, after more than three decades of airing on the CBC.
CBC Celebrates 50 Years of Television.

4 Births

April 6 - India Ann Sushil Sood, daughter of Sarah McLachlan and Ashwin Sood

Politics	Business	Finance

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