Jane Farrow
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Jane Farrow is a Canadian author and broadcaster. Her written works include Wanted Words, Wanted Words 2, and (with David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace) the Canadian Book of Lists. She has worked for CBC Radio since 1998, producing and hosting programs such as Sunday Morning, Wanted Words (from which the books of the same name were derived), Workology and the etymological program And Sometimes Y. Jane Farrow was the executive director of Jane's Walk. She is currently executive assistant to Toronto City Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon.
Farrow is openly lesbian.[1] In 2010, she rejected the position of "Honoured Dyke" to protest the Toronto Pride Committee's banning of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid.[2]
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- ^ "Gay Talk". And Sometimes Y (CBC Radio). 2007-09-29. http://www.cbc.ca/andsometimesy/pastshows.html?s3-ep4. Retrieved 2007-10-10.
- ^ The Star (Toronto). http://www.thestar.com/mobile/news/gta/article/818333--pride-honour-rejected-over-israeli-apartheid-ban.
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