City of Kawartha Lakes OPP say a total of seven drivers were charged on the Labour Day long weekend after vehicle stops in the city.

Jason Talley and Pete Eyre of the Motorhome Diaries were denied entry into Canada while attempting to cross the border yesterday.

A handful of people were on hand to witness the spectacle that is Wet Dirt, a Toronto four-piece led by Vancouver expat Robert Dayton.

This week Jeramy Dodds, of Orono, Ont., won the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, worth $10,000, for his collection Crabwise to the Hounds .

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Pasha Malla has won the 2009 Trillium Prize for his debut collection of short stories, The Withdrawal Method .

Canada's literary elite will gather in Toronto tonight to herald some of the world's best wordsmiths at the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize ceremony.