Welcome to The Globe and Mail’s business and investing news quiz. Join us each week to test your knowledge of the stories making the headlines. Our business reporters come up with the questions, and you can show us what you know. This week: Royal Bank of Canada posted second-quarter profit …
Read More »Royal Winnipeg Ballet to premiere T’əl, a historic Indigenous-language production
Open this photo in gallery: Dancers Stephan Azulay, front left, and Tymin Keown, front right, rehearse for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s T’əl: The Wild Man of the Woods, which debuts April 25. Silhouetted against beams of fluorescent light shining from the ceiling of a vast studio, more than two dozen …
Read More »What reason did the Royal Family give for heavily editing a photo of the Princess of Wales? Take our news quiz for the week of March 16
Welcome to The Globe and Mail’s news quiz. Join us each week to test your knowledge of the stories making the headlines. This week: All eyes are on Catherine, Princess of Wales. That is, if our eyes can be trusted. Catherine, 42, has been out of the public eye since …
Read More »Landmark Toronto hotel sees net-zero retrofit
Open this photo in gallery: The Royal York Hotel is making strides to becoming a net zero, carbon neutral building. ‘There’s no question that the Royal York is deeply embedded in the heart of the community,’ says general manager Edwin Frizzell. ‘Net zero is part of our effort to position …
Read More »Sailor Isabella Bertold finds inspiration in everyone
Open this photo in gallery: Sailor Isabella Bertold.Photo illustration The Globe and Mail. Source photo: Royal Vancouver Yacht Club/Handout Isabella Bertold has conquered a few worlds. For four years, she worked as a venture capitalist investing in start-ups. She is a world-class sailor and was a member of Canada’s national …
Read More »Canada’s history in six coronations, from Victoria to Charles III
About the event Modern coronations are carefully rehearsed, but not 1838′s. Only Victoria and one Westminster Abbey official came prepared for the five-hour event. Clergymen skipped pages in the complicated program, in one case dismissing Victoria from the abbey too early; an elderly lord tripped on the slippery steps in …
Read More »How do you pick the perfect concert piano? Inside the Royal Conservatory’s $300,000 bet
The nightmare began two weeks before the unveiling. Jim Anagnoson’s standard anxiety dream, in which he was onstage at the piano and realized the conductor was beating his baton to a piece Anagnoson didn’t play – that dream he knew. Most concert pianists had their own version of it. Anagnoson …
Read More »Six royal funerals, one changing Canada: What the deaths of monarchs have revealed about us
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Read More »Opinion: Why does the Royal Family remain? The better question is, what does Britain even stand for any more?
Tom Rachman is a Canadian-British writer based in London. His new novel, The Imposters, comes out next year. Horses dragged the golden carriage through London, eight glum beasts clopping no faster than you’d walk, owing to the tonnage of the absurd vehicle, with its carved cherubs, palm trees and sea …
Read More »Prince Charles and Camilla’s royal visit starts in St. John’s today. Latest updates on their Canadian tour
Charles, Prince of Wales, greets people as he visits Canada House in London on May 12. He and his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, visit Canada from May 17 to May 19.HANNAH MCKAY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Royal visit: Latest updates Charles, Prince of Wales, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, are …
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