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What's So Funny?: Lessons from Canada's Leacock Medal for Humour Writing
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Is there a Canadian sense of humour? How can we write with more humour? And what can humour writing teach us about ourselves? These are questions explored in What’s So Funny? Lessons from Canada’s Leacock Medal for Humour Writing — Ottawa writer Dick Bourgeois-Doyle's personal review of books that have won our country&rsquo
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