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Watch out, Stratford and Shaw: Ibsen Fest is here

03/27/2015 by the editor

By Mark Leiren-Young Happy World Theatre Day (March 27, 2015) . . .  Ibsen-mania has come to Canada. The city of Oslo, Manitoba has announced plans to create a new festival dedicated entirely to the works of Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, and his lesser-known Scandinavian contemporaries. Oslo Mayor, Hedy Gabler, says she feels the creation […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Canada, Manitoba, theatre

The book of Heather

03/05/2015 by the editor

By Rod Mickleburgh Like many Vancouverites, I presume, I have a love-hate relationship with the big box Chapters bookstore downtown at Robson and Howe. Stocking the main floor with almost everything BUT books, bringing in the flag-waving American Girl franchise to what is supposed to be a Canadian bookstore, and, worst of all, the shameful […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: books, British Columbia, business, Canada, Chapters, cities, Heather Reisman, Indigo, toys, Vancouver

He wrote Canadian film into being

02/22/2015 by the editor

By Jim Henshaw While writer muses come and go at their will, each of us is granted a mentor. Very early on I was lucky enough to be taken under the wing of the best screenwriter Canada has produced, John Hunter. I don’t remember how John and I first met. All I know is he […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Canada, Canadian film, Canadian television, film, screen, television, writing

Colville: Canada’s other great small town chronicler

02/05/2015 by the editor

By Rod Mickleburgh Like many, I knew the works of Alex Colville almost entirely from the ubiquitous reproductions of his most well-known paintings. The blonde woman on the PEI ferry staring out with her powerful binoculars at who-knows-what. The haunting image of a large horse galloping down the tracks towards an approaching train, its searchlight […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Alice Munro, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada, love, marriage, National Gallery of Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ottawa, painting, Toronto, visual arts

Edmonton’s Roxy is gone, but its spirits are safe

01/14/2015 by the editor

By Frank Moher The Roxy Theatre in Edmonton burned down in the night on Tuesday. I grew up a few blocks from the Roxy, so it was where I saw my first movies. That was early enough — in the ’50s and ’60s — that the movies were still preceded by black-and-white newsreels, or so […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Edmonton, Nanaimo, theatre

Run from him

12/13/2014 by the editor

By Frank Moher As we have remarked here before, Stephen Harper’s government has not been the complete disaster for Canadian artists that many expected it to be. For example, it has not cut funding to the Canada Council — in fact, it increased it and has held it steady at the new amount. And while […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Canada, Canadian music, Conservatives, music, Stephen Harper

“The indomitable cussedness that made him unique”

11/07/2014 by the editor

By Rod Mickleburgh Paul St. Pierre, B.C.’s superb chronicler of the beautiful Chilcotin and its all-too-human characters, passed away last July. But friends and family waited until Sunday, the weekend of Mexico’s Day of the Dead, to formally say goodbye to the former Vancouver Sun columnist, Liberal MP, gifted writer, and, in the words of […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: authors, British Columbia, Canada, literature, Paul St. Pierre, Vancouver, Vancouver Sun, writing

Harperism, from Hayek to Koch and Coyne

10/07/2014 by the editor

By Alison@Creekside Neo-liberalism: trickle-down, deregulating, deunionizing, globalizing free market privatization of government. When Stephen Harper was studying under the “Calgary school” in the 80’s, he became so enamored with the neo-liberalism of Austrian philosopher Friedrich von Hayek — guru to Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, the Chicago boys, the IMF, and the WTO — it formed the basis […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Andrew Coyne, Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, Aurea Foundation, Barrick Gold, books, Brian Lee Crowley, Calgary School of Public Policy, Canada, Charles Koch, conservatism, Conservatives, Donald Gutstein, economics, Fraser Institute, Frontier Centre for Public Policy, International Monetary Fund, Jim Flaherty, Kenneth Whyte, labour, Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Manning Centre for Democracy, Margaret Thatcher, Martha Hall Findlay, Michael Walker, Michel Kelly Gagnon, Mont Pelerin Society, Montreal Economic Institute, neoconservatism, neoliberalism, Nigel Wright, Peter Holle, Peter Munk, Ronald Reagan, Stephen Harper, Trans Pacific Partnership, unions, World Trade Organization

Alice Cooper, Canadian icon

09/21/2014 by the editor

By Frank Moher Did I miss the part where Alice Cooper became a Canadian? Because otherwise, HBO Canada’s new doc Super Duper Alice Cooper appears to mark some strange turning point in Canadian film funding. And believe you me, this is a Canadian film — at least if its list of financiers is anything to […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Canada, Canadian film, Canadian Media Fund, Canadian television, Conservatives, Department of Canadian Heritage, film, HBO Canada, music, Ontario Media Development Corporation, rock, Rogers, Telefilm Canada, television, Toronto

United we watch

09/02/2014 by the editor

By Rod Mickleburgh My mother hated Labour Day. For her, a high school English teacher, it was not only a day to pay tribute to workers and unions, but a signal that the lazy, hazy days of summer were over, and it was time to go back to work. Every year, the prospect of facing […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: British Columbia, Canada, education, film, labour, movies, unions

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Fort McMurray: Shopping time!

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Electoral reform: Hashtag fresh thinking

By Alison@Creekside The most interesting and innovative idea to come out of the first meeting of the all-party Special Committee on Electoral Reform, or ERRE, was Nathan Cullen's suggestion, … [Read More...]

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The Trudeau gush fest is getting old

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My friend, Rick, at the Pride Parade

By Frank Moher On this dreadful day, I don't want to write about the shootings in Orlando. I want to write about my friend, Rick. Rick lives just outside of Nanaimo, a city of about 80,000, … [Read More...]

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Triumph of the drama nerds

By Frank Moher Two drama nerds have recently moved into high profile positions. Before I name them (or perhaps you’ve already guessed who they are; or perhaps you’d like to scroll down and look at … [Read More...]

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Originally published on Our Rape Blog, the author's account of the aftermath of a violent sexual assault. By Mary Fraughton Have you ever played Hearts? It’s a card game. For our purposes, … [Read More...]

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The video: Lelu Island: “They will come.”

From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary -- Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian … [Read More...]

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