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Jan 2025
26m 30s

Meet the Canada Reads 2025 contenders!

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Find out this year's panellists, and the one book they think all of Canada should read , by checking out the big reveal, as heard on Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud. Catch all this year's panellists and authors on upcoming episodes of The Next Chapter. All the details for Canada Reads can be found at cbcbooks.ca.

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