Tag Archives: Arts

Battlefords Community Players to stage Christmas classic Nov. 30
The immortal words "every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings" will be heard in the Battlefords this holiday season. The Battlefords Community Players will stage a story generationally beloved ...
Nov 09, 2023

Bus carrying crew for Shania Twain concert crashes on icy highway in Saskatchewan
WOLSELEY, Sask. - Members of Shania Twain's concert production crew were on a bus that crashed Wednesday morning on an icy highway in southeast Saskatchewan. The music star's management company, Maver...
Nov 08, 2023

Cochin Community Players gets ready for new show
There'll be some laughter in the house later this month and into December when the Cochin Community Players put on their latest play The Cemetery Club. Betty Ternier Daniels, chair of the board of dir...
Nov 08, 2023
BUH Festival of Trees putting community first
For more than 28 years, its been as much of a Christmas tradition as tinsel and turkey in the Battlefords as the Battleford Union Hospital (BUH) presents its annual Festival of Trees. The four-day eve...
Nov 06, 2023

Vast digital trove of recordings by Canadian literature greats nears completion
EDMONTON - Jason Camlot was chatting with his new boss in the English department of what was then Montreal's Sir George Williams University in 1999, when he spotted a dusty cardboard box of 80 reel-to...
Nov 04, 2023

Prince Albert dance instructor voted national ambassador
Prince Albert's Sarah L'Abbe has earned the right be the face and voice for a national dance organization.The 18-year-old has been voted the 2024 national ambassador for the Canadian Dance Teachers' A...
Nov 01, 2023

Ministers' responses on Afghan monument contract 'pathetic': design team
OTTAWA - An architectural group that lost out on building a monument to Canada's mission in Afghanistan is accusing two federal cabinet ministers of giving a "pathetic" explanation for how the contrac...
Nov 01, 2023

Mother of peacekeeper killed in Bosnia is this year's Silver Cross Mother
OTTAWA - Chris Holopina called his mom in Manitoba every single week while he was deployed in Bosnia in 1996. At 23, he was doing exactly what he'd always wanted to do: serving in the Canadian Armed F...
Nov 01, 2023

Protesters condemn Quebec plan to double tuition for out-of-province students
MONTREAL - Protesters who oppose Quebec's plan to double tuition for out-of-province students said Monday the provincial government hasn't offered any evidence that the move will protect the French la...
Oct 30, 2023

Indigenous group wants Buffy Sainte-Marie to lose 2018 Juno over ancestry doubts
A group of Indigenous women is calling for Buffy Sainte-Marie to lose her Juno Award for Indigenous album of the year, after a CBC story raised doubts about the singer's ancestry. "We invite the Juno ...
Oct 30, 2023