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      <title>“Stable leadership is required”</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10477</link>
      <description><![CDATA[“I intend to bring my political experience to this city and offer leadership that is geared to change,” declared Maurizio Bevilacqua this past week as he officially announced his intention to run for the mayorship of Vaughan.  Bevilacqua arrived at the Major Mackenzie headquarters of Vaughan’s city council at 9:30 a.m., and entered the administration department where he made his candidacy [...]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>2010-09-12</pubDate>
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      <title>17 - Canada’s first prime minister</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10480</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Canada’s first prime minister, and one of its greatest statesmen, was an immigrant.		  
John Alexander Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1815, and came with his family to the Kingston area of Upper Canada (later Ontario) in 1820.  Macdonald’s father was a shopkeeper and miller.  Scots were the dominant group of immigrants to the Canadas after the conquest of New France; they played a [...]]]></description>
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      <author>Michael Bliss</author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-12</pubDate>
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      <title>Ottawa says no to Zamboni MS treatment</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10481</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Last week, Canadian experts recommended that the federal government not provide funding for Zamboni’s therapy.
“There is no scientific proof that shows the effectiveness of the procedure,” they said.  
A day later, Ottawa decided to follow their advice. Just a few days ago, federal health minister Leona Aglukkag announced that funding allocation for research and experimentation by the [...]]]></description>
      <category>spotlight</category>
      <author>Simona Giacobbi</author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-12</pubDate>
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      <title>The Americanization of Italian</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Don’t worry. Everything is OK. Italian is in no danger of becoming extinct, and anyhow, it certainly won’t die as a result of an influence from the English language. 
The extinction alarm went off several days ago in Cagliari where an international convention of Italian language and culture scholars is underway.  
According to Sicilian writer Vincenzo Consolo, Italian is being replaced by “a [...]]]></description>
      <category>focus</category>
      <author>Letizia Tesi</author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-12</pubDate>
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      <title>Everyone has a reason to Run for the Cure</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10485</link>
      <description><![CDATA[It’s always difficult to describe the sorrow you feel when someone dear to you is diagnosed with cancer, or when the disease afflicts you firsthand.  Gisella, 57, of Richmond Hill –whose parents hail from Abruzzo, Italy, went through both these terrible experiences.
Breast cancer struck her and other family members with a vengeance.  She is now committed to regaining her faith in life, seeking [...]]]></description>
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      <author>Elena Serra</author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-12</pubDate>
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      <title>Capri, a destination for arts and culture</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It’s been years that the Friends of the Certosa di Capri have organized the annual International Arts Festival in Capri, but each time is like the first.  
During this most recent edition, which ran from Saturday Aug. 28 to Sept. 4, the enthusiasm, public participation, and success have exceeded expectations.
For Marino Lembo, the island’s Vice Mayor and culture and tourism councillor, the [...]]]></description>
      <category>periscope</category>
      <author>Letizia Tesi</author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-12</pubDate>
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      <title>Hollywood legends set for TIFF</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Cinematic heavyweights Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford and Woody Allen are set to blow into town this week, the eye of the Hollywood hurricane known as the Toronto International Film Festival.
They'll be joined by Brit director Danny Boyle, who is back with the mountain climbing drama ``127 Hours'' after ruling the 2008 festival with eventual Oscar winner ``Slumdog Millionaire.''
Other buzz-laden [...]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>2010-09-12</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[TFC Play Soccer at Ontario Place
Celebrate the game of soccer at Ontario Place, with an inflatable road show for youth and families, that includes interactive soccer activities. Runs until Sept. 11 at Ontario Place, 955 Lakeshore Blvd.W.  For more information call 416-314-9900.

The Weekend to End Women's Cancers
Benefiting The Campbell Family Institute at The Princess Margaret, the charity [...]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>2010-09-12</pubDate>
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      <title>The stars shine bright on College Street</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It was still raining at 12:45 p.m., but the people were already assembled on College Street, on their portable seats with their umbrellas in hand, determined to not miss the show, rain or shine.  There was a bit of last-minute frenzied activity among organizers:  shifting chairs around the front of the stage; making space among the crowd for the stars’ limousines; rolling out the red carpet; [...]]]></description>
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      <author>Letizia Tesi</author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-12</pubDate>
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      <title>Listings</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Serious Money
This play takes a look at the greed, gluttony and excess of the London Stock Market, during the 1980s. Serious Money is a clever satire of ruthless traders and dirty corporate shenanigans. Runs until Sept.12 at the Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade.  For more information call 1-800-511-7429.

The Tempest
The Tempest was one of Shakespeare's final plays, believed to have been [...]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>2010-09-12</pubDate>
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      <title>The warm and rootsy sounds of Sunbear</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sunbear’s 2009’s debut album, Sun Streaming In, was a lovely collection of original country-folk material by singer / songwriter Kate Boothman, and it received deserved critical acclaim. Her songs are fleshed out in performance and on record by the fine rhythm section of bassist Ian Russell and drummer Michelle Josef.
The positive response to the first album is sure to be duplicated with [...]]]></description>
      <category>music</category>
      <author>Kerry Doole</author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-12</pubDate>
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      <title>Effective task lighting provides focus</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Of all the lights in a home and especially in a workplace, task lighting at a study desk or workstation is certainly a function-first object. Along with the practicality of task lighting for reading and working at a computer, however, there are notable examples of task lights that have raised the object design to higher forms.
Richard Sapper’s 1972 Tizio task light for Italian lighting giant [...]]]></description>
      <category>design</category>
      <author>Mark Curtis</author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-12</pubDate>
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      <title>Fanfare for flavourful fennel</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Fennel has an aromatic flavour that is similar to licorice, and it’s used in everything from appetizers to desserts. It might not look like such a wonderful herb enhancer, with its pale green bulb and short stems, but it packs a punch when it comes to adding a distinct aroma and taste to a slew of Italian dishes.
The veggie is a native of Southern Europe and the Mediterranean. In ancient Greece, [...]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>2010-09-12</pubDate>
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      <title>France earns first Euro 2012 qualifying win</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[France's recovery from a humiliating World Cup finally began with a first win in European Championship qualifying on Tuesday night, while Germany and the Netherlands earned their second straight victories.
The French had begun with a surprising loss in Group D to Belarus on Friday, but Karim Benzema and Florent Malouda led them to a 2-0 victory at Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Italy and England also put [...]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>2010-09-12</pubDate>
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      <title>Pausini up for Latin Grammy</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Italian pop star Laura Pausini has been nominated for what could be her fourth Latin Grammy award, and fifth Grammy overall.
Pausini, only the second Italian artist after the legendary Domenico Mudugno to win a Grammy proper, won her third Latin Grammy last November for her hit album 'Primavera anticipada' (Early Spring).
The 36-year-old 'Queen of Italian Pop', who has a huge following in Latin [...]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>2010-09-12</pubDate>
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      <title>Andreotti says Ambrosoli &#039;was asking for it&#039;</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10501</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Italian elder statesman Giulio Andreotti unleashed a storm of criticism Thursday when he said a widely regarded hero murdered while liquidating a Mafia-linked financier's assets in the 1970s had brought it on himself. In an interview for a TV programme on the affair, Andreotti, 91, said &quot;I don't want to fill in for the police but certainly (Giorgio Ambrosoli) was someone who 'was asking for [...]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>2010-09-12</pubDate>
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      <title>A chance for real change in Vaughan</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10478</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Maurizio Bevilacqua’s candidacy is the first real chance to change things in Vaughan from outside the political milieu that has characterized the not always easy life of the administration of the once ‘City Above Toronto’ in the last 10 to 15 years.
It’s always hard to govern any city because of the administrative and demographic changes taking place at a very fast pace. This task becomes [...]]]></description>
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      <author>Angelo Persichilli</author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-12</pubDate>
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      <title>MS activist group slams federal government</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10482</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq was strongly attacked today by an activist MS group, The Reformed Multiple Sclerosis Society, for refusing to fund clinical trials for the treatment for CCSVI, Canadians continue to be forced to assume the risks and costs of foreign treatment for blocked veins.
ReformedMS head, Steven Simonyi-Gindele, questioned the legitimacy of the Canadian Institutes of [...]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>2010-09-12</pubDate>
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      <title>Donna Giustizia gets Ward 2 Civic Hero award</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10484</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Vaughan Council recently recognized Donna Giustizia as the 2010 Civic Hero for Ward 2 for her work advocating for educational reforms  and community needs for those affected by anaphylaxis, or severe life threatening allergies. Ms. Giustizia has children who have been diagnosed with anaphylaxis.
 “Ms. Giustizia spearheaded the implementation of the most comprehensive school allergy plan in [...]]]></description>
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      <author></author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-12</pubDate>
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      <title>A bridge between two countries</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10488</link>
      <description><![CDATA[One of the principal functions of any embassy is to lay foundations, construct, edify, strengthen, to bring the country one represents ever closer to the country that hosts us. How better to achieve this than by building bridges, large or small? 
The International Arts Festival of Capri is one such bridge, a bridge that joins together the enchanting Blue Isle and various countries of the world. [...]]]></description>
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      <author></author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-12</pubDate>
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      <title>Event fetes Italian talent at TIFF</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10490</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Once again Italy demonstrates the creative outburst from a country that has always had a profound influence on cinematic history. Seven remarkable films plus four co-productions showcased during this year’s festival reveal the vision and vitality of the Italy’s cinema today, reflecting the full range of heterogeneous approaches and authorial perspectives characteristic of Italian [...]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>2010-09-12</pubDate>
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      <title>Toronto students go behind the canvas</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Toronto high-school students will get a taste of the art world this September when they become the first educational ambassadors of the Canadian Art Foundation’s 15th annual Gallery Hop auction. The senior high-school art students will provide gala attendees with information about 52 works donated by both established and rising stars in the Canadian contemporary art scene. 
 “In the past, [...]]]></description>
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      <author>Nicole Leung</author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-12</pubDate>
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      <title>On The Beat</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10496</link>
      <description><![CDATA[BLUE RODEO: The ongoing success story of Canada’s most popular roots rock group is a pleasure to observe. That was confirmed when OTB checked out their recent Molson Amphitheatre concert. A close to full house was on hand, and the wide range of ages in attendance shows the band’s ongoing ability to appeal to a real diverse audience over a career now spanning 25 years. Blue Rodeo showed good [...]]]></description>
      <category>music</category>
      <author>Kerry Doole</author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-12</pubDate>
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      <title>The return of Michael Di Biase</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10479</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Just over fours years after the loss suffered against Linda Jackson, former mayor Michael Di Biase is returning to Vaughan’s political arena.
Di Biase ended the delay this past week, formalizing his candidacy for one of three regional council seats.  In a matter of days, therefore, the equilibriums and power relationships in the “City above Toronto” that came to be created during the election [...]]]></description>
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      <author>Francesco Veronesi</author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-12</pubDate>
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      <title>On Your Mark, Get Set, Go</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10486</link>
      <description><![CDATA[York Region residents and a host of other participants are preparing for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure on Sunday Oct. 3 at Richmond Hill’s Richmond Green Park.
Following the enormous success of the 2009 edition, the first in York Region, they are hoping to repeat the exceptional achievement of 1,600 participants, 100 volunteers, and over $400,000 raised to fund [...]]]></description>
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      <author>Elena Serra</author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-12</pubDate>
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      <title>“I would invest in the TTC”: Ford</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10455</link>
      <description><![CDATA[“There were only two rules in my company.  The first:  The customer is always right.  The second:  The customer is always right.  In politics, one must have the same approach.”  Rob Ford has no doubt:  the honeymoon with voters is destined to last to Oct. 25.
According to polls, that will be the day Toronto definitively turns a page and crowns the Etobicoke North city councillor as successor to [...]]]></description>
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      <author>Francesco Veronesi</author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-05</pubDate>
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      <title>Pd club meeting in Toronto with Hon. Bucchino</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10457</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The reunion of the Partito democratico (Democratic party of Italy) club of Toronto was held last Thursday evening in Woodbridge.  It was presided over by Mario Marra, with the participation of the Honourable Gino Bucchino.  Marra announced that a new Pd club opened in Windsor, while others will be opening in Oshawa, Edmonton, and Vancouver.	
“We’re spreading,” jokes Bucchino, “even in light [...]]]></description>
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      <author>Letizia Tesi</author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-05</pubDate>
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      <title>16 - Separatism and division</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10458</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Bloc Québécois (BQ) is a provincially based federal party dedicated to the achievement of an independent, French-language nation of Quebec. Although there had been individual separatists in the federal Parliament before, they had no organized political party behind them. The party roots lay in René Lévesque’s Parti Québécois that had come to power in 1976 and governed well, even if the [...]]]></description>
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      <author>Robert Bothwell</author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-05</pubDate>
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      <title>Zamboni MS treatment is hit and miss</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10459</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Saskatchewan was the first.  Now supporting the “Zamboni theory” regarding the connection between multiple sclerosis and chronic cerebro-spinal insufficiency (CCSVI) is Manitoba, Nova Scotia, and Quebec.	  
A chorus of yeses from experts, premiers, and ministers who are now favouring the treatment discovered about 10 years ago by the Ferrarese doctor whose publication late last year was shunned [...]]]></description>
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      <author>Simona Giacobbi</author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-05</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran at a socio-political crossroads</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10461</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Eventually she confessed. But when Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning, appeared on TV and said publicly that she was an accomplice to the murder of her husband and that she had betrayed him with his cousin, her face was covered with blood and her words were translated.	 
“It was impossible to confirm her identity,” says Ramin Jahanbegloo, an Iranian [...]]]></description>
      <category>periscope</category>
      <author>Letizia Tesi</author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-05</pubDate>
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      <title>Awakening spirit of Italian cinema</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10462</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Seven Italian films and another four Italian co-productions: this strong presence at the Toronto International Film Festival 2010 confirms its status as one of the most important showcases for Italian cinema.		
Stefano Pasetto’s Il richiamo (The Call) will have its world premiere in Tiff’s Discovery section, dedicated to the most interesting young international talents. Stefano Pasetto’s [...]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>2010-09-05</pubDate>
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      <title>Finding balance through life’s tough times</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10464</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Hers is a difficult story that began on the ship that brought her to Canada from Italy.  For Rita Benacquista Stillo, author of the book The Gifts of Responsibility, her search for the meaning of life lasted over half a century, through family bereavements and the temptation to end it all.  Today, though, she speaks of truth, spirit, and understanding – all necessary to attain peace and serenity [...]]]></description>
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      <author>Elena Serra</author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-05</pubDate>
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      <title>Toronto</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10465</link>
      <description><![CDATA[TFC Play Soccer at 
Ontario Place
Celebrate the game of soccer at Ontario Place, with an inflatable road show for youth and families, that includes interactive soccer activities. Runs until Sept. 11 at Ontario Place, 955 Lakeshore Blvd.W.  For more information call 416-314-9900.

The Weekend to End Women’s Cancers
Benefiting The Campbell Family Institute at The Princess Margaret, the charity [...]]]></description>
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      <author></author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-05</pubDate>
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      <title>Listings</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10466</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 
South Pacific
The plot focuses on the lives of two couples affected by World War II. Until Sept. 5 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W.  For more information call 416-644-3665. 

Serious Money
This play takes a look at the greed, gluttony and excess of the London Stock Market, during the 1980s. Serious Money is a clever satire of [...]]]></description>
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      <title>Klezmerata Fiorentina</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10467</link>
      <description><![CDATA[For their 15th annual Ashkenaz Festival, Harbourfront Centre has scored a coup in attracting the internationally renowned Klezmerata Fiorentina ensemble. In turn, the group’s founder and leader, Igor Polesitsky, sounds genuinely excited at the prospect. “I’m really looking forward to it,” he told Tandem recently. “This is our Canadian debut, and also our debut at a purely Jewish music event. [...]]]></description>
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      <author>Kerry Doole</author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-05</pubDate>
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      <title>From spoons to cities</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10469</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Mid-20th century Italian architect Ernesto Rogers was once famously quoted as saying that architects should design everything from spoons to cities and many architects to this day have taken that view to heart.      
Italy’s most acclaimed practising architect, Renzo Piano, for example, has designed culturally significant projects around the world such as the Parco della Musica in Rome and the [...]]]></description>
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      <author>Mark Curtis</author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-05</pubDate>
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      <title>Kiwi, made in Italy</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10470</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The kiwi is a small but powerful little fruit. It has twice the Vitamin C content of an average-sized orange and is also a good source of potassium. In addition, kiwi is loaded with fibre,  which makes it a mild natural laxative.		 
The fruit owes its name to the Kiwi bird, the flightless bird that is native to New Zealand. But New Zealand, the country that is synonymous with the fruit, is [...]]]></description>
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      <author>Rita Simonetta</author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-05</pubDate>
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      <title>Tragedy begets strength and a fighting spirit</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10471</link>
      <description><![CDATA[At first it took her her husband and now she has also been afflicted, but Mary Dottori is not willing to give up and let asbestos win. 
“Now I’m also suffering the consequences, because the dust that my husband brought home with him on his clothes and hair penetrated my lungs too — I have asbestosis and that is making my life very difficult,” she says. 
It’s hard for her to choke back the [...]]]></description>
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      <author>Alessio Galletti</author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-05</pubDate>
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      <title>Italy mobilized to save Iranian stoning woman</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10473</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Italy is taking the lead in pressing for clemency for the Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery with passionate appeals across the country.
The government has hung a huge photo of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani from the front of the Equal Opportunities Ministry in central Rome as part of its efforts to persuade Iran to commute her sentence, which has sparked an international [...]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>2010-09-05</pubDate>
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      <title>Ancient Roman dwelling upgraded to mansion after new finds</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10474</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Archaeologists working on the remains of an ancient dwelling in northern Italy have reassessed their ideas about the site after uncovering lavish decorations and imposing architectural features.
The building in Aquileia, which previously appeared to be a normal Roman villa, has now emerged as a majestic mansion complex, covering an entire block.
Archaeologists say the house, or domus, was the [...]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>2010-09-05</pubDate>
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      <title>Italy bid to bury 2010 hoodoo</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10475</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Coach Cesare Prandelli said Italy must bury their 2010 hoodoo in Friday's opening Euro 2012 qualifier in Estonia, their first competitive match since the World Cup fiasco.
Italy have not won a game this year after their poor form at the end of Marcello Lippi's second stint culminated in June's shock World Cup exit with a 3-2 defeat to Slovakia and they also lost 1-0 to Ivory Coast in Prandelli's [...]]]></description>
      <category>sports</category>
      <author></author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-05</pubDate>
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      <title>Ottawa to take ‘wait and see’ approach</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10460</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The federal government will take a wait-and-see approach on funding clinical trials of a controversial new treatment for multiple sclerosis patients.
Ottawa will assemble a working group to study information coming out of seven studies of the treatment regime now underway, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq said Wednesday.
“These studies will inform decisions about moving forward with any [...]]]></description>
      <category>spotlight</category>
      <author></author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-05</pubDate>
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      <title>From north to south</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10463</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Turin in The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Saverio Costanzo; the Naples of John Turturro’s Passione or Stefano Incerti’s Gorbaciof; Pasquale Scimeca’s Sicily in The House by the Medlar Tree: from north to south, Italy is well represented in Italian productions that will be presented at the Toronto International Film Festival.	
First clapperboard was in Italy, more specifically in Rome, for [...]]]></description>
      <category>movies</category>
      <author></author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-05</pubDate>
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      <title>On The Beat</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10468</link>
      <description><![CDATA[WOMEN IN JAZZ: The title of this recent concert at Lula Lounge has to be considered a little misleading. Sharing the bill were local vocalists YVETTE TOLLAR and MARY MARGARET O’HARA. Tollar is a recent Juno nominee as a jazz vocalist, while O’Hara simply defies any attempt at genre classification. Her devotion to improvisation, however, has a very jazz-like quality. Similarly, the music at the [...]]]></description>
      <category>music</category>
      <author>Kerry Doole</author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-05</pubDate>
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      <title>Bel Canto Foundation taps into youth</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10476</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The red carpet will be rolled out; the gentleman will be decked out in black ties, and the women will be in gorgeous gowns as they enter Le Parc Conference and Banquet Centre on the evening of Wednesday, Sept. 29 for the fourth edition of the Bel Canto Foundation gala for which RBC is the marquee sponsor.	
The Bel Canto Foundation was officially founded by Tony Cesaroni in 2006, and gained [...]]]></description>
      <category>art_and_culture</category>
      <author>Elisa Pennate</author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-05</pubDate>
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      <title>Bold front-runner</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10456</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Bad mannered, aggressive, argumentative, but tremendously efficient. Rob Ford, who started his election campaign quietly, has over the weeks managed to gain the favour of Torontonians by force, becoming the frontrunner leading up to the Oct. 25 elections.  Recent polls place him clearly ahead, the man of destiny John Tory confirmed his decision not to run for mayor, while the other four [...]]]></description>
      <category>upfront</category>
      <author></author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-05</pubDate>
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      <title>It’s time again for the Giving Thanks Gala</title>
      <link>http://tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10472</link>
      <description><![CDATA[They’re looking for moral and psychological support, a comforting word, and domestic assistance as well.  Phones ring constantly at Hospice Vaughan – requests for help coming in from all communities, from every corner of Woodbridge, Maple, Kleinburg, and Concord.	 
“Raising funds to continue to offer our programs is the aim of the annual gala evening that we’re calling ‘Giving Thanks Gala – [...]]]></description>
      <category>periscope</category>
      <author>Mariella Policheni</author>
      <pubDate>2010-09-05</pubDate>
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