Category Archives: Arts
Manitoba government offers money for online performances so people will stay home
WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is hoping that free online entertainment and classes will help people through the pandemic winter and convince more folks to stay home. The Progressive Conservative government announced a $3-million grant program Mond...
High court to decide whether Nazi art case stays in US court
WASHINGTON — Jed Leiber was an adult before he learned that his family was once part-owner of a collection of centuries-old religious artworks now said to be worth at least $250 million. Over a steak dinner at a New York City
MPs probe officials on ability to collect GST from Netflix, other foreign companies
OTTAWA — Opposition MPs pressed officials Thursday to say how ready they'll be to begin collecting GST on cross-border sales by foreign companies starting next year, as proposed by the Liberal government's fiscal update.Foreign companies without a phys...
Bullet holes from 2014 attack on Parliament Hill to be left untouched in renovations
OTTAWA — The scars from the 2014 attack on Parliament Hill are part of the "heritage fabric" of the iconic Centre Block and will not be fixed during extensive renovations on the building, according to a senior government official who
Ottawa beefs up loans for hard-hit sectors — but big airlines not included for now
Ottawa is rolling out a wave of new funding for pandemic-battered industries including tourism, the arts and regional aviation, with smaller companies top of mind — and large airlines notably absent. The Liberal government's fiscal update sketches out ...
News media lobby group asks MPs for rules to get compensation from Google, Facebook
OTTAWA — A lobby group for Canada's newspapers and magazines is asking MPs to enact new rules to help its members negotiate compensation from social-media giants that post content the traditional media produce. News Media Canada wants the government to...
Olympic champions Virtue, Moir and Tewksbury among 114 Order of Canada inductees
OTTAWA — Champion ice-dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir and Olympic champion swimmer Mark Tewksbury were among 114 athletes, artists, scholars and community leaders named to the Order of Canada. Gov. Gen. Julie Payette's office announced the new hono...
Angst around French language boils over in Quebec, as politicians warn of ‘decline’
MONTREAL — Perennial anxieties around the state of the French language in Quebec have boiled over in the past week, with politicians seizing on a Liberal legislator's initial brush-off of the issue as evidence of indifference to a crisis. Outside of
Winning design announced for N.S. art gallery to be built on Halifax waterfront
HALIFAX — The winning design for Nova Scotia’s new art gallery has been revealed. The new Art Gallery of Nova Scotia is slated to cover 13,000 square metres on Halifax’s waterfront, nearly doubling the space of the gallery’s current downtown home,
Bloc to promote bill on French-language proficiency for new citizens
OTTAWA — The Bloc Québécois will get to debate a bill Thursday that would require anyone applying for Canadian citizenship in Quebec to demonstrate functional proficiency in French. Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet says that familiarity with the offi...
