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Heard the one about the three Welsh comedians heading to Toronto to celebrate St David’s Day? The St David’s Society of Toronto will hear all about it on Saturday night (March 3) as Phil Evans, Gary Slaymaker and Daniel Glyn jet into Canada for a night of stand-up comedy. The three comedians will be performing their critically-acclaimed show ‘The Dragon Has Three Tongues’. “It’s a showcase of the very best in Welsh comedy,” said Evans. “Welsh audiences will be familiar with what the show is all about, but this is the first time we have taken it abroad. “The St David’s Day Society of Toronto is made up of Welsh ‘exiles’ in Canada, so we’ll be mixing the comedy with some ‘hiraeth’ (longing) for the Land of My Fathers.” Messrs Evans, Slaymaker and Glyn are three familiar faces and voices in Wales and appear regularly on S4C (Welsh language TV) as well as BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio Cymru. Two years ago they joined forces to create ‘The Dragon Has Three Tongues’ to provide an innovativ...

OPP seek public's help in locating federal offender <b>(photo)</b> Robert Lloyd is described as a 40-year-old white male, 6'1" (185 cms), 170 lbs, (77 kgs), hazel eyes and short brown hair with numerous tattoos on his chest, shoulders, abdomen,legs, right and left arms. Doesn't look anything like me . . . and I haven't been to Canada! :) Although the line about 'Anyone having contact with Robert Lloyd should use caution' may be correct!

Toronto poet in running for big literary award... - Toronto.com When they announce the winner of the 2011 Dylan Thomas Prize in Swansea on Wednesday, Toronto-based poet Jacob McArthur Mooney, one of five international contenders for the $49,000 biannual award, won’t be there. He won’t be far away: just across the channel, in fact, in Germany or France, he said in a phone interview last week from Vienna, during a stopover on a long-overdue European vacation. “I’d rather not be there when the announcement is made — too much pressure,” said Nova Scotia-born Mooney over the crackling phone line.