Lawrence Hill (right) of Burlington, Ont. is this year's winner of The Commonwealth Prize for his novel The Book of Negroes. (It is published in the U.S. as Someone Knows My Name, apparently because the U.S. publisher thought the word 'Negroes' was a bit incendiary. Honest -- that's what Hill says to a Guardian reporter.
Hill wins 10,000 pounds for the honour.   more »

Some bloggers are very closely connected to the party and it wouldn't surprise me if some bloggers had their bills paid by the party or like-minded political organizations -- and that goes for bloggers from the right and left. The CBC journalists, for the record, who will attend will have their tabs covered by federal taxpayers; private sector MSM journalists -- possibly yours truly -- will have their bills paid largely from the sale of advertising.)... Instead, the Conservatives say that: "The accreditation of bloggers will be based on various factors - including interest; space availability at the convention; the readership and influence of a blog; the amount of original content the blog typically generates to name a few."