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  "og:description": "The Globe and Mail examines the controversy as CBC's Canada Reads expands to include non-fiction for the first time in its 10-year history."
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  description: "The Globe and Mail examines the controversy as CBC's Canada Reads expands to include non-fiction for the first time in its 10-year history."
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# Canada Reads caught in fact-fiction divide

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7 February 2012

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[The Globe and Mail](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/canada-reads-caught-in-fact-fiction-divide/article2330084/)

In extending Canada Reads to include works of non-fiction for the first time since the contest’s inception 10 years ago, the CBC has inadvertently transformed a friendly, domestic literary debate into a geopolitical furor focused on volatile questions of truth and justice in distant totalitarian regimes.

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