Tag Archives: Arts
Château Laurier believes swap of famous Churchill portrait was by a 'professional'
OTTAWA - The Chteau Laurier says it's been able to narrow down a time frame of when it believes a famous portrait of Sir Winston Churchill was stolen from its walls: sometime between Christmas Day las...
Aug 23, 2022
Battleford Food Truck Festival and Trade Show to start this week
The Town of Battleford is getting geared up to host its first Food Truck Festival and Trade Show. The event will run at the Battleford arena, with Discovery Co-op as the main sponsor.Town community pl...
Aug 23, 2022
Renowned architect Moshe Safdie gifts archive and Habitat 67 condo unit to McGill
MONTREAL - After more than 50 years designing buildings around the world, renowned Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie is donating his professional archive to the Montreal university where he got ...
Aug 23, 2022
Feds won't extend bilingualism bonus to employees who speak an Indigenous language
OTTAWA - The federal Treasury Board says it has no plans to expand a bonus - now paid to employees who speak English and French - to those who know an Indigenous language. The bilingualism bonus is an...
Aug 23, 2022
‘I Wanna Rock’: Opening night finally arrives for Rock of Ages
The EA Rawlinson Centre will be Rockin once again as a major musical production takes the stage.The show "Rock of Ages", a musical featuring the songs of the classic rock era opens at the performing a...
Aug 22, 2022
Famous Yousuf Karsh portrait of Sir Winston Churchill stolen from Château Laurier
OTTAWA - It sounds like a caper from a movie: a thief seems to have swapped out the famous portrait of a scowling Sir Winston Churchill, photographed by Yousuf Karsh in 1941, with a signed copy. A sta...
Aug 22, 2022
Battlefords Agricultural Society reports strong numbers from exhibition
It was a great week for the Battlefords Agricultural Society as it wrapped up their Northwest Territorial Days Exhibition with some great numbers. The event ran from Aug. 17 to 19 at the exhibition gr...
Aug 22, 2022
Battlefords Agricultural Society reports strong numbers from exhibition
It was a great week for the Battlefords Agricultural Society as it wrapped up their Northwest Territorial Days Exhibition with some great numbers. The event ran from Aug. 17 to 19 at the exhibition gr...
Aug 22, 2022
B.C. First Nation arrives in Scotland, asks museum to return totem pole taken in 1929
VANCOUVER - Delegates from the Nisga'a First Nation are in Scotland this week to discuss repatriating a memorial totem pole it says was stolen nearly a century ago. Seven members, including Nisga'a Na...
Aug 20, 2022
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says decline of French in Canada 'extremely troubling'
CAP-AUX-MEULES, Que. - New census data showing a decline of French in Canada is "extremely troubling," the prime minister said Friday, but he added that Ottawa still has a responsibility to protect li...
Aug 19, 2022