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 […]
The Canada Council’s six not so scary ideas
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 […]
Cons drop cover charge for foreign musicians
By Frank Moher We’re kind of hard on the Conservative government around here, so when it does something right, it’s only fair we note it. You might want to print out and laminate this post for safekeeping as we’re not likely to do this again anytime soon. The government has dumped the fees it was […]
Yann Martel’s two-man book club
By Frank Moher In my previous post to this section I said I’d be back in seven days with my thoughts on Yann Martel’s bibliophilic jihad against Stephen Harper. That was, er, um, six weeks ago. But hey, who hasn’t been following the Paris Hilton news coverage 24/7? In any event, in the interim a […]
