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All of OPL’s staff recommendations in one page. You can browse the different lists based on topics, format or genres, or you can read some of the more detailed blog posts about specific items.

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Transgender Identity: Then, Now, and Forever

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To some it may seem that the existence of transgender people is a new phenomenon. It was only 2014 when...
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Albert Dumont: Ottawa's English Poet Laureate

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What’s in a Poet Laureate’s name? Poet. Storyteller. Ambassador. Speaker. Spiritual Advisor. Algonquin Traditional Teacher. Red Road Walker. Leader. Elder...

New to OPL – Nintendo Switch Games

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The wait has been long, but it is finally over, you can now borrow Nintendo Switch games from OPL for...
The Parliamentary Poet Laureate

New Parliamentary Poet Laureate Louise Bernice Halfe

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Louise Bernice Halfe, from the Saddle Lake Reserve in central Alberta, is the first Indigenous person to become Canada’s Parliamentary...
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