Violinist/songwriter Anne Lindsay and the Creaking Tree String Quartet, both staples of the Toronto roots music scene, were multiple winners in instrumental categories in the third annual Canadian Folk Music Awards Saturday night at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Que.Lindsay, who [...]

Jani Lauzon relaxed and let the music flow.For eight years, she had put her singing career on hold to give birth and devote time to her daughter.As a new mother, she could no longer push herself to the level the music industry demands, [...]

Province pressed to cut loggingNov. 28
The last time I drove through it, its name was Algonquin Park, not Algonquin Forest Industries. Is Natural Resources Minister Donna Cansfield up to the challenge of ensuring it lives up to its name? Can she help the local communities diversify their economies to make them less reliant on forestry?We [...]

Like WKRP But Colder? Elizabeth Hay’s Giller Prize-winning book Late Nights on Air, set at a Yellowknife CBC Radio outpost in the mid-1970s, is to be turned into a TV series by Shaftesbury Films. Shaftesbury’s also turning last year’s Giller winner, Bloodletting %26amp; Miraculous Cures, by Vincent Lam, into a limited-run series for TMN.
For the [...]

Most parents know that reading to a preschooler is never as simple as rattling through the story and shutting the book. If it’s a favourite, it will be read many more times than the parent wishes to. Illustrations will be discussed, questions will be asked and the book will be a prized, if battered, possession.
All [...]

A bipartisan US congressional group was given in 2002 a virtual tour of the CIA’s overseas detention facilities and a detailed briefing about the spy agency’s interrogation techniques, The Washington Post reported.
Citing unnamed US officials, the newspaper said the information about waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tools drew mainly positive reaction at the time, [...]