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NORTHERN LIGHTS:

Kate Taylor's Atkinson Fellowship examines the future of Canadian Culture

Atkinson Fellow Kate Taylor spent the past year researching the future of Canadian culture in a global and digital age.

What will happen to Canadian content regulation as Internet TV and radio take over our cultural space?

Is there room for Canadian popular culture in our digital future?

Taylor interviewed more than 100 people and travelled to France and Australia as well as Montreal, Ottawa and St. John's, Nfld. asking about the purpose of a national culture and the ability of regulations to protect it.

Taylor, a Masters graduate in journalism from the University of Western Ontario, is an arts columnist at the Globe and Mail as well as an award-winning novelist. Her 2003 book, Mme Proust and the Kosher Kitchen, won a Commonwealth Prize. Her second novel, A Man in Uniform, was published this year.

The first three parts of Northern Lights appear online in the Toronto Star over the weekend. Parts 3 through 6 will appear next week.

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NORTHERN LIGHTS:

Kate Taylor's Atkinson Fellowship examines the future of Canadian Culture

Recent Stories from the Toronto Star