A jogger takes a break on beside Mont Royal Chalet on the Mount Royal in Montreal on Oct. 29, 2020.Andrej Ivanov/The Globe and Mail Keep your Opinions sharp and informed. Get the Opinion newsletter. Sign up today. Not as it seems Re Parents, Minor-league Associations Question Transparency Of Hockey Canada’s …
Read More »B.C. government to make business case for spending $789-million to rebuild Royal BC Museum
The Royal BC Museum in Victoria.CHAD HIPOLITO/The Globe and Mail Next week, the British Columbia government will lay out its business case for spending nearly $800-million to rebuild the Royal BC Museum in Victoria. The announcement, made May 13, was a shocker. B.C. Premier John Horgan promised a “safer, more …
Read More »In The Palace Papers, Tina Brown sheds new light on the royal family’s major players
Tina Brown’s new book, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor, the Truth and the Turmoil is a follow-up to her well-received 2007 The Diana Chronicles and focuses on the period after the Princess’s death.Handout In July, 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, invited Tina Brown, then-editor of The New …
Read More »Jake Epstein ready for solo show at the Royal Alexandra Theatre
Jake Epstein decided to channel his complicated feelings about his experiences into a song-filled solo show, Boy Falls From the Sky.Luke Fontana/Handout Jake Epstein has some showbiz stories to tell. The erstwhile Degrassi: The Next Generation star went down to the United States to follow a musical-theatre career, making his …
Read More »A stay at Prince Edward County’s revamped Royal Hotel is a journey in local details
The Royal Hotel has anchored Picton, Ont.’s Main Street since 1879. Built to service an influx of commercial travellers and tourists brought into the area by the Prince Edward County railway, it was, according to The Settler’s Dream, a pictorial history of the County’s older buildings, the grandest accommodation in …
Read More »How Prince Edward County’s new hotels are designed for locals and visitors
When the Royal opens its doors this month in Picton, it will support many of the 27 recommendations set out in Prince Edward County’s destination development plan.The Royal Hotel In July of last year, as tourist sites around the world stood empty, Sandbanks Provincial Park in Ontario’s Prince Edward County …
Read More »Pianist Stewart Goodyear appointed the Royal Conservatory’s first ever artist in residence
Canadian concert pianist Stewart Goodyear has been appointed the Royal Conservatory of Music’s first ever artist in residence.STUART LOWE/RCM The Canadian concert pianist Stewart Goodyear has upcoming concerts with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Nov. 5 and 6) and in Toronto, where, on Nov. 27 at Koerner Hall, he’ll perform the …
Read More »Opinion: Canada needs a new playbook on climate
A DC Fast EV charging station in a public parking lot in Picton, Ont., on April 30, 2021. New electric-vehicle registrations in Canada currently range from 2 to 3 per cent. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail Dave McKay is president and chief executive officer of Royal Bank of Canada As …
Read More »Review: Denis Villeneuve’s tremendous Dune is pure cinematic madness
Timothee Chalamet, left, and Rebecca Ferguson in a scene from Dune. Chia Bella James/The Associated Press Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter. Sign up today. Dune Directed by Denis Villeneuve Story continues below advertisement Written by Denis Villeneuve, Eric Roth and Jon Spaihts, based on …
Read More »Director Daryl Cloran’s Beatles-infused As You Like It garners Broadway buzz in Chicago
Daryl Cloran’s As You Like It, first conceived at Bard on the Beach in Vancouver, made its American debut this month at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Handout Canadian director Daryl Cloran’s production of As You Like It – which mashes together the words of the Bard with songs by the Beatles …
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