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The Canada Council changes: We have every right to freak out

06/09/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

Yesterday, we published a post titled The Canada Council’s six not so scary ideas. Here, Stephanie Small of the publishing house The Porcupine’s Quill responds: Changes are afoot, ladies and gents. As many of you may know, particularly if you follow the arts and culture scene — and even more particularly, if you are up […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: arts, arts funding, Canada, Canada Council, Porcupine's Quill, publishing

The Canada Council’s six not so scary ideas

06/08/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher The Canada Council was created in 1957, so there’s every reason to suppose it might be in need of serious change. At the same time, it was pretty much inevitable that artists would react with alarm and suspicion to news of that change coming. For all our talk in artistic circles of embracing change, exploring new […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: arts, arts funding, Canada, Canada Council, Canadian politics

Fort McMurray’s Keyano College sends arts to tailings pond

05/06/2012 by backofthebook.ca 3 Comments

By Frank Moher The sacking of four instructors in the Visual and Performing Arts Department at Keyano College in Fort McMurray is creating an uproar well beyond the city better known for its resource extraction talents. Artists, of course, are well aware that their masters — whether they be cabinet ministers or academic administrators — […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Alberta, arts, business, Canada, Ezra Levant, Fort McMurray, Keyano College, music, theatre, visual arts

How the Sun helped post the Playhouse’s closing notice

03/10/2012 by backofthebook.ca 5 Comments

By Frank Moher The sudden news that the Vancouver Playhouse is closing after 49 seasons comes as a shock, of course. We assume these venerable civic institutions will somehow always manage to lumber along, despite economic downturns and hostile governments and digital depredations. This, after all, was the company that gave Canadian theatre its seminal […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: arts, BC, Canada, journalism, newspapers, theatre, Vancouver

Who needs a BC arts council when we have the Liberals?

08/19/2010 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher Jane Danzo, in her letter of resignation as Chair of the BC Arts Council and in various exit interviews that followed, has confirmed what most of us already suspected: that the Liberal government now sees itself as arbiter of all things cultural in the province. At last, we can begin to see […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: arts, arts cuts, BC Liberal Party, British Columbia, Canada, Gordon Campbell, Jane Danzo, Kevin Krueger, Rich Coleman

Stephen Harper wins small

10/15/2008 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

The Conservatives may have been re-elected last night, but Stephen Harper lost. He coulda been more than a contender; he could have been the leader of a majority government. But he lost it by being small-minded; his silly, captious comment about artists torpedoed the Conservatives’ momentum in Quebec, and here we are. Over on bobalicious, […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2008 election, arts, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, elections, Liberals, Quebec, Stephen Harper

Has Harper blown it?

10/12/2008 by backofthebook.ca 3 Comments

It is striking how Stephen Harper has bollixed this election campaign. In 2006, he ran a model opposition party assault, not only decrying the squalid condition of the Liberals after their long run in power, but also staying a step ahead of them by announcing nearly every day a new initiative, policy, plan. Two years […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2008 election, arts, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, elections, Liberals, Michael Ignatieff, NDP, Quebec, Stephen Harper

Artsy-not-so-smartsy

10/01/2008 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

So, having declared that “ordinary working people” don’t care about the arts, Stephen Harper now announces a new tax credit worth $150 million aimed at families who want to enroll their kids in arts programs. But who can those families possibly be, given that the “ordinary” ones are apparently too busy playing parcheezi and watching […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2008 election, arts, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, elections, Stephen Harper

Cut this

09/04/2008 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

Frank Moher We are a little late to this battle, having been on hiatus in August, so I’ll keep this brief. The Conservatives have already been pounded on mightily for their cuts to arts funding last month, but let me add that the skankiest aspect to their behaviour was the covert way in which they […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: arts, Canadian culture, Conservatives, Stephen Harper

And all whose jazz?

05/06/2008 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Frank Moher NEW ORLEANS — Diana Krall played the annual Jazz Festival in this most congenial of American cities on the weekend, a festival that also featured such stalwarts of the form as Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, Deacon John, and the Rebirth Brass Band. Mind you, it also featured such distinctly non-jazz acts as […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: arts, music

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