Cathi Bond is a

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, broadcaster, and

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. Bond is noted for employing both "old media" radio broadcasting and "new media" podcasting. She is a regular contributor to

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's ''

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'',Becky Rynor, "What you want, when you want it". ''

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'', July 9, 2006. and writes for ''

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''. On CBC Radio, she was a frequent film and cultural critic on ''

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'', and sometimes appeared as a panelist on '' Saturday Night at the Movies'' beginning in 1999. As a podcaster, she co-hosts ''Reel Women'', a bi-weekly movie podcast with Canadian feminist and author

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. She also co-hosts ''The Sniffer'', a

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about technology and trends, with

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, since at least 2006. She was the host of the podcast "Prosecast", a series of interviews with Canadian authors sponsored by

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Canada. Bond's novel ''Night Town'' was published by Iguana Books in 2013. It is a queer coming-of-age story set in 1970s Toronto.

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