The life and times of Canada’s longest serving Prime Minister AKA “Weird Willie”. A new book looks at Canada’s longest serving Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie-King, and also perhaps the strangest. However it also looks at the times and sensibilities… »
Highlights / Arts, Culture, Lifestyle
Requiem for Radio: How the loss of RCI shortwave inspires an artist
(if photos do not appear, refresh screen) The shortwave towers and broadcasts of RCI are but a memory, but for a New Brunswick based artist, they have become the source for a myriad of artistic efforts. March 2014, The destruction… »
Shane Wilson- Unique artist in a unique medium, moose antler and horn.
Shane Wilson is a rare artist. Fascinated by the idea of carving at a young age, he has developed an art form that is almost unique to him alone. Now an extremely accomplished sculptor, he works in the highly unusual… »
Arts & Entertainment, International, Society
Book: The Vimy Oaks: A Journey to Peace
It’s a little known story about a man who loved trees, a man of peace whose duty sent him to war in the battlefields of France. From amongst the blasted stumps he saved some acorns to regrow those once magnificent… »
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Arts: Documentary film; Secrets of Survival
For those who experienced the war, there were horrors, and too often, desperate actions taken to ensure survival that required secrecy. Millions of families were torn apart. An emotionally powerful new documentary film follows two children of war as they… »
Documentary film: controversial grizzly trophy hunting
The Grizzly Truth. Yes it’s about bears, magnificent, huge, powerful bears. But they’re not the unpredictable killing machines so often portrayed, nor are there even that many of them left. A new documentary looks at the various myths surrounding… »
Legend of Canadian Pacific- author Barry Lane
Today one might call it a “fully integrated travel provider”. As such, it was also the biggest in the world. It is a fantastic tale of a uniquely Canadian company, Canadian Pacific, and a new large coffee table type book… »
Culture: Erasing hate in Montreal
It began with a large spray-painted Nazi Hakenkreuz (sanskrit- svastika) that he spotted while driving to a job. Corey Fleischer operates a power-washing graffiti removal service in Montreal, but the image bothered him all day. Later he drove back to… »
Doc film-The complex and often controversial issue of surrogacy
A new documentary explores the complex issue surrounding couples who can’t have children and surrogate motherhood. Nick Orchard of Soapbox Films in Vancouver is the director of “Having Our Baby: The Surrogacy Boom” Nick Orchard, director *Having Our Baby* © Soapbox… »
Arts & Entertainment, International, Society
Rare ancient book acquired in Canada: The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela.
In the mid 1100’s, and some 100 years before Marco Polo would travel some of the same routes, a Jewish merchant embarked upon an amazing 13 year journey throughout present-day Spain, Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle-East. His name was… »
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