Most Canadians know the name Vimy and know something of the story of the First World War battle. We consider it a nation-making moment. But do we know the names Amiens, Arras, Canal du Nord, Cambrai and Mons? Likely not, unless you have been to the Canadian War Museum
There’s not much on the stage. Three bathtubs, a metal dress form and shower head hanging above each, a backdrop of panelled walls: That’s about it. Designed by Brian Smith, it’s an apt setting for The Drowning Girls, a ghost story about three British women who,
Last week, Ottawa got to see Akram Khan perform Xenos, billed as his last full-length solo. Although Khan still appears to be in his athletic prime, the 44-year-old dancer has been quoted as saying he feels like his body is starting to break down. LIke
There are three new exhibitions at the Ottawa Art Gallery, featuringMichèle Provost, Patrice Stanley and Michael Belmore. Here is a brief look at each: MICHÈLE PROVOST is a soft provocateur, in that her provocations are often woven into gentle fabrics, in methodical stitchings of satire, sarcasm
Wayne Grady's new novel, he says, is a conversation between his black side and his white side. Grady, a respected writer of non-fiction, has turned to fiction lately and his two novels, first Emancipation Day and now Up From Freedom, are very much explorations of a
Ottawa writer Natalie Morrill lived in Vienna, Austria, as a young girl. She remembers a large Jewish cemetery in the city that was surrounded by walls, littered with leaves and broken glass and protected by barbed wire. She did peek inside and wonder about this abandoned
The spark for Waubgeshig Rice's novel Moon of the Crusted Snow ignited in 2003 during a massive power outage that darkened Ontario and parts of the other U.S. "I was living in Toronto at the time, but on that day I was back on the reserve
The National Gallery of Canada has purchased a painting that was once thought lost to the art world. The Gallery announced its acquisition of At the Lunch Table, a 1901 painting by the Austrian painter Carl Moll, on Thursday afternoon in a media release. The painting is
Here is John Rebus, the old lion in the winter of his life. His old colleagues are gone. His old snitches are gone. Even his favourite seedy hangouts have become wine bars. He's off the police force. He's suffering from COPD and he's certainly not the physical
There is little doubt that the novel of this year in CanLit is Esi Edugyan's widely hailed Washington Black. This is the story of Washington Black, a slave child born into the brutal plantation system in Barbados, who is taken away from this cruelty by a
