Music: It’s like Bluesfest but with batons
A few blocks west of Parliament Hill in the nation’s capital is a mysterious site called LeBreton Flats, which Ottawa’s city...
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Music: Belly of the beast
Every summer for two afternoons, the National Arts Centre Orchestra puts a few rows of chairs at the front of its rehearsal room...
Music: Come, Creator Spirit
On Friday Yannick Nezet-Séguin makes his first appearance in Philadelphia as the music director-designate of that city’s great...
Music: The kid’s all right
Montreal’s Yannick Nézet-Séguin will be the Philadelphia Orchestra’s next music director. The hometown paper provides...
Girl You Know It’s True
Our Rachel Mendleson consults the experts on Stephen Harper’s Starr-turn. Former Rheostatic Dave Bidini proves...
Canada’s unlikeliest rock star
Stephen Harper may not want to quit his day job. But that doesn’t mean he couldn’t.
The Re-framing of Stephen Harper
Just because you haven’t heard enough of Stephen Harper’s Ringo impression last weekend, the Ottawa Citizen today had dueling...
The Commons: Huzzah, Mr. Ignatieff asks a question that is not entirely rhetorical
But never let it be said Parliament is no place for a Ringo joke
The critics are sort of raving (III)
Dan Gardner dissents .
The critics are sort of raving (II)
The Telegraph’s Damian Thompson takes note.