Prince Edward Island’s Rock the Boat Music Festival is returning for its seventh year with headliners from across the country, which were announced Thursday afternoon. Those acts include the Nova Scotia rock band The Trews, Ontario duo The Reklaws, country…
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Beam Paints paintstones wrapped in beeswaxed cloth. (Anong Beam) When Anong Beam looks back on her beginnings as a paint manufacturer, she remembers it feeling “abstractive.” “It seemed like such a really extreme thing,” she recalls. “It would be like…
A painting by David Bowie that was purchased at a northern Ontario landfill’s donation centre for $5 has set a global record for the late British musician’s work at over $50,000, with a week to go before the auction ends.…
Joshua Whitehead’s novel Jonny Appleseed has been optioned for a four-part digital miniseries by Stories First Production. Jonny Appleseed tells the story of Jonny Appleseed, a young Indigiqueer sex worker finding his way in the big city, as he goes through the…
Artists finishing a mural in Selkirk, Man., on the legacy of residential schools have added a new section to commemorate the students whose remains were found recently at a school site in Kamloops, B.C. “When that news came about . .…
As Saskatchewan prepares for Step 2 of its reopening plan, venues and musicians are getting ready to put on shows for music lovers. This is good news for many musicians in Regina. Not only does it will present new opportunities for…
David Screech had already selected his seats and put in his credit card information for Springsteen on Broadway tickets when he noticed the COVID-19 vaccine requirements: his two doses of AstraZeneca-Oxford wouldn’t be enough for admission. Screech, the mayor of View Royal,…
Before she became an artist herself, Carly Jaye Smith was given the chance to help paint a mural in downtown Moose Jaw. She was just a kid at the time, but the feeling of turning public spaces into art has…
Last July, Sarah Frazer learned she had two years at most before she would need to replace her failing kidneys. “I was 23 at the time — a 23-year-old girl sitting in a physician’s office in Toronto General, being told, like,…
Jimbo, a contestant from the first season of Canada’s Drag Race, is speaking out after an ice cream store in Windsor, Ont., turned down a woman’s request to feature an image of the drag queen on a cake. Jimbo is the stage…