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“What do you do when your mother is Miriam Toews?” Midway through Georgia Toews’s debut novel, Hey, Good Luck Out There, the protagonist, Bobbi, has just finished a gruelling stint in rehab for alcohol addiction. Kicked out of her bedbug-infested apartment, she ends up wandering through the streets of Toronto dragging along a small carry-on…
“Faouzia could be Gen Z’s next big pop star” The Moroccan-Canadian singer built a huge fan base and netted a Juno nomination—without even releasing an album Earlier this year, Faouzia Ouihya got a cryptic heads-up to tune into the 2022 Juno nominations announcement. The young singer—whose stage name is Faouzia (pronounced Foe-zee-ya)—watched it at home…
“Inside the Stratford Festival’s $72-million theatre makeover” This summer—after years of delays—the show will finally go on at Stratford’s immaculately redesigned Tom Patterson Theatre In August of 2019, Antoni Cimolino, the artistic director of the Stratford Festival, stood on a platform under construction, a blue light shining brightly off the metal scaffolding. He had a…
“Artist Stan Douglas is representing Canada at the Vienna Biennale” Vancouver artist Stan Douglas is Canada’s first ever Black representative at the prestigious exhibition Canadian artist Stan Douglas has been selected as Canada’s representative at the prestigious Vienna Biennale exhibition. Douglas, who hails from Vancouver, is a multidisciplinary artist whose work encompasses photography, theatre, and…
“Artist Stan Douglas is representing Canada at the Venice Biennale” Vancouver artist Stan Douglas is Canada’s first ever Black representative at the prestigious exhibition Canadian artist Stan Douglas has been selected as Canada’s representative at the prestigious Venice Biennale exhibition. Douglas, who hails from Vancouver, is a multidisciplinary artist whose work encompasses photography, theatre, and…
“Putin’s also destroying Ukraine’s history” Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was one of Russia’s most renowned composers, the first to win international fame. Vladimir Putin’s war has destroyed his former house in Ukraine, just one of countless cultural deprivations to go along with his slaughter of innocents. This is the “special military operation” that Putin insists is…
“Six must-read books for April and May” An ode to Canada’s lost buildings and a memoir by Elamin Abdelmahmoud are among our picks for the best books of the season 305 Lost Buildings of Canada By Raymond Biesinger and Alex Bozikovic (Goose Lane Editions, March 22) Theatres, hotels and industrial plants from St. John’s to…
“Emily St. John Mandel can’t stop writing about pandemics” In 2014, the Canadian-American author Emily St. John Mandel was catapulted to fame by her fourth novel, Station Eleven, a remarkable portrayal of a horrific flu pandemic that kills 99 per cent of humanity, and of the travelling troupe of Shakespearean actors who visit settlements around the…
“This Canadian teenager wrote your favourite Frida Kahlo quote” The web has wrongly credited the brooding meditations of a Canadian teen to the artist Frida Kahlo. Is that necessarily a bad thing? In the summer of 2015, Rebecca Martin was perusing Facebook when she noticed an inspirational quote meme posted by an acquaintance: I used…
“#Heather O’Neill on Sarah Polley” I grew up in Montreal in the ’80s, without cable TV. My dad and I did everything we could to occasionally pick up the PBS channel from Vermont. This involved a small Brechtian production. We put piles of old Yellow Pages on the radiator to lower and raise the television…