Food, Sex, and Salmonella: Why Our Food is Making Us Sick

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www.movingstories.tv -- With solid science and deft humour, celebrated epidemiologist David Waltner-Toews brings us tales of the bacteria, viruses, and parasites that have made their way into our food supply.  He describes the global patterns of foodborne disease, from ciguatera toxins in fish to pandemics of Salmonella, and the changes in climate, culture, agriculture, and trade that have led to the emergence of new diseases and epidemics. It's not all doom and gloom -- "Dr. Dave" provides practical advice for what each of us can do on a daily basis to take responsibility for mitigating the effects for the future.

Directed by Kate Hollett (c) 2008 BookShorts Literacy Program for Greystone Books with the assistance of Canadian Heritage Book Publishing Industry Development Program. 

Charles Taylor Prize Names Richard Gwyn, John A.

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www.movingstories.tv -- The bookselllers in the room, the authors at the podium, they rank the Charles Taylor Prize in an echelon shared by Scotiabnk Giller Prize for fiction, and Griffin Prize for Poetry.  All this literary splendour, within days of the announcement that the plug was pulled on the US, NBC-broadcast Quill Awards.  Makes us feel good in a Canadian way, eh.

Richard Gywn, whose book was published by our favourite rock-star publisher Anne Collins of Random House Canada, won this year's Prize for literary fiction.  Also nominated were David Gilmour, Lorna Goodison, Kevin Bazzana and Anna Porter.  Look for snippets from these excellent authors in the upcoming blog entries.

Shot on location at Le Meridien King Edward Hotel March 3 (c)  2008 BookShorts.