The Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games closed on Sunday night with a spectacular light show, which failed to brighten the spirits of Canadian fans after both their men’s and women’s squads suffered crushing 2-1 overtime defeats to the U.S. Despite the setbacks, we salute the accomplishments of all of our Olympic athletes by recapping…

The history and achievements of Black Canadians are scarcely taught in schools, resulting in what the father of Black History Month, Carter G. Woodson, had lobbied against — discounting the relevance of Blacks in society by failing to remember their history. Despite facing systematic discrimination, Black Canadians have been able to persevere and be triumphant.…

There is a video of Joni Mitchell singing her song Coyote that encapsulates everything I love about her style. She throws a pair of skates into a red sports car, then turns to offer her hand to a coyote hanging out nearby. The real-life coyote was faithless American playwright Sam Shepard, and the 1976 song…

Robert Lantos dwells in a different world from you and me. We’ve done many interviews over the years. And no matter where I’ve found him – lighting a cigar with a blue jet of butane in his Toronto office, or lunching on the cliffside terrace outside Cannes, or on location in a Budapest arena draped…

When Libby Znaimer was told she had pancreatic cancer in 2008, she knew the diagnosis came with one of the lowest survival rates of all cancers. The number of Canadians who survive pancreatic cancer is tragically low, and for those diagnosed at an advanced stage three – like Libby was – the situation is much…

The literary lioness’s new memoir is called Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts, which is apt for a woman who contains multitudes. She’s a novelist, poet, playwright, advocate, inventor, mischief-maker and bird lover. “Every writer is at least two beings,” she writes. “The one who lives, and the one who writes.” Here, by the…