It was the ship hailed by all sailors in the golden age of sail. She was the Marco Polo, and for years was the fastest ship in the world. She was a big ship indeed, just over 56 metres long,… »
Highlights / Arts, Culture, Lifestyle
ART- Cape Breton N.S. artist Onni Nordman
Sydney Nova Scotia painter Onni Nordman is a workaholic. He spends endless hours in his studio beside the cottage on a cliff in Cape Breton with the sea and sky he shares with his wife and manager Paula Muise. Cape… »
Environment: an Arctic marine protected area; coming closer
As climate change makes the once remote Arctic more accessible, pressure is mounting to seek the minerals, and oil, and fish reserves thought to be waiting there. One of the world’s most biodiverse areas though is the Lancaster Sound where… »
Interview with northern Ontario artist Ivan Wheale
It’s a long way from post-war England to Sudbury, Canada’s hard-rock mining centre in northern Ontario, but that was the trip Ivan Wheale made as a young man. Ontario artist on Manitoulin Island, Ivan Wheale in front of a window… »
Exposition of Canadian Nudes- at last
Interview with Victoria Henry, Director of the Canada Council for the Arts- Art Bank on the art exhibition “Getting Naked” Victoria Henry, Director Art Bank, Canada Council for the Arts. © supplied The Canadian Art Bank is a unique institution which… »
Documentary: The Antibiotic Hunters
Writer-director Bruce Mohun with a 3-toed sloth during filming of “The Antibiotic Hunters” © Dreamfilm.ca We’re running out of drugs to combat increasingly deadly bacteria. The drugs we have are losing their effectiveness, meaning infections that were previously easily controllable, could… »
Poetry- two very different Canadian styles- GE Clarke, Al Purdy
On this edition, poetry, a form of expression that can evoke all kinds of emotions from longing, to sadness, to love of course, joy, and philosophical thought. Today a little later an interesting take on a poem by one of… »
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New documentary film on female sexuality and “breaking free”
The Truth About Female Desire, a new documentary, presents an extremely frank look at contemporary Canadian women of all ages taking charge of their own sexual lives and freedom. Maureen Palmer is a director/producer with Bountiful Films, a documentary film… »
Ontario painter Michael Kilburn
Sweeping landscapes evoking the majesty of the Ontario wilderness, the peace of nature undisturbed by human hand, the rustic nature of tilting buildings in rural Newfoundland, the boats and sea, or the seabirds, ocean, and warm scenes of Florida, all… »
Book: Faith Under Fire- Alan Hustak
In 1914, none could imagine the horrors and loss awaiting the world, as millions of young men marched off to war. Already in middle-age, Canadian Frederick G Scott, a respectable priest, was very much of the Victorian and Edwardian mindset… »
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