BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS June, 2015 At age 18, Debbie Lori Kaye became the youngest performer in history to have her own variety special on CBC TV. A tiny singer with a big voice, her star had been rising steadily
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JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs May 8, 2015 This week’s riots by thousands of Ethiopian Jews in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv mark the latest episode in a drama that stretches back well over 3,000 years. The Ethiopians were protesting what they see as
JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs April 30, 2015 Mother Nature has devastated Nepal just as the country was beginning to dig itself out from two decades of havoc unleashed by tectonic rifts in its human society. The earthquake that struck a week ago has
BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS April, 2015 “I last played here 18 years ago,” Bob Newhart told the reporters at a Toronto press conference in 1978 when he announced his return to stand-up comedy. “I think the act went over well because, as
JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs April 24, 2015 “If the world had any sense,” began my friend and fellow Africa correspondent Remer Tyson as we hunkered down behind a thick wall in Mogadishu to avoid the stray bullets whistling overhead in the early
BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS April, 2015 When I first met John Hirsch in 1977, he talked so passionately about Canadian theatre that I wondered why this Hungarian-born director wasn’t running a theatre company instead of working in television. He had co-founded Canada’s
JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs April 17, 2015 When, in 2011, Burma’s generals “hung up their uniforms” after nearly half a century of military rule and introduced an ersatz civilian democracy, no one in their right mind imagined the soldiers wouldn’t occasionally reach
How to make seal flipper pie By Greg Locke April, 2015 Goulds, Newfoundland — The spring seal hunting season opens this week on Canada’s Atlantic coast with hunters and fishermen from Newfoundland, Labrador, Quebec and the Maritime provinces heading out onto the
BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS April, 2015 It was the question everyone working in theatre lives to hear: “How would you like to be in a Broadway show?” Nicola Cavendish was about to star in a Canadian production of Educating Rita when she
JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs April 10, 2015 Perhaps I had spent a sheltered life, but the first time I recall hearing the phrase “global warming” was at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in October, 1987, at a conference centre in Vancouver.
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