The National Gallery of Canada says it decided not to host an exhibition of works from the collection of the royal family of Liechtenstein because of a 2005 report on estates in Austria owned by the family during the Second World War. The gallery said in
When you begin an odyssey you can never really be sure how it will end. But almost certainly unforeseen circumstances happen. Angela Hewitt has been on such a journey playing the piano works of J.S. Bach
Hawksley Workman and Sarah Slean go back — to the 1990s and the Queen Street scene in Toronto. They were both working on being The Next Big Thing at the time and would collaborate on each others' projects. "It's a time we both like to remember in
The fact that Julie S. Lalonde has built a career as a successful advocate and activist in the fight against sexual violence, is already pretty impressive. That she has obtained a BA and MA in Canadian Studies and succeeded in getting a sexual assault centre at
Coronavirus concerns are closing places such as the Louvre in Paris and La Scala in Milan, along with shuttered schools, cancelled flights, cruises and even an autograph session with the San Francisco 49ers running back Raheem Mostert. Now, because of the coronavirus, the comedian Maz Jobrani has
Donna Vivino has a rescue cat with a big personality named Blaze. She also helps a local centre care for felines that are abandoned or mistreated. So it sort of makes sense that the New Jersey native would get a role in the touring company of
The main summer exhibition of Old Masters planned for the National Gallery of Canada has been mysteriously cancelled and that’s not all — the gallery will no longer mount biennials of acquisitions of Canadian contemporary art. The news was transmitted in emails from Josee-Brittanie Mallet, a
From about 1923 to 1956 when the National Film Board moved production to Montreal, the city of Ottawa was the filmmaking capital of Canada. Now that the city is on the cusp of a cinematic leap forward with the expected arrival of a major soundstage project,
Many journalists find other outlets for their talents. Some turn to fiction writing. Some to filmmaking. In Peter Hum's case, he plays jazz piano. There is a direct connection to the work he has done at the Ottawa Citizen where he and I were colleagues. Hum writes
Ottawa journalist and historian Mark Bourrie is the winner of the 2020 RBC Taylor prize for non fiction for his biography of Pierre-Esprit Radisson called Bush Runner (Biblioasis). The $30,000 prize was handed to Bourrie at a lunch in Toronto on Monday. The book revealed much about
