Reading Time: 3 minutes Humphrey tried and tried again but, ambition notwithstanding, he was never meant for the job
Category: A&E
Compassion is at the heart of the best of humanity
Reading Time: 3 minutes Those who show the greatest compassion are among the most powerful and influential, because they’re driving change
Was the 2008 financial crisis exacerbated by official misjudgment?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Countries as disparate as Ireland, Iceland and Greece showed that misplaced financial exuberance has many pedigrees
Is intolerance doing permanent damage to artistic integrity?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Special interest groups demanding a say in casting choices flies in the face of diversity and freedom of expression
The subsidy table is set, and actors and writers will dine
Reading Time: 3 minutes The CRTC has backed away from a 21st-century funding model for the creation of Canadian content. We’ll all be poorer as a result
Is a run for the presidency in Ronan Farrow’s future?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The author of War on Peace demonstrates the kind of qualities that suggest a political career in the making
Make your own music and memories in Big Pink
Reading Time: 5 minutes The famous house in southeastern New York state was once used by The Band. Now it’s available to the public for overnight stays
Behind the extraordinary art of the ‘Walt Disney of Japan’
Reading Time: 4 minutes Hayao Miyazaki is brilliant, inspired, outspoken and unconventional. It’s a combination that makes for remarkable films
Mister Rogers’ well-lived life in the neighbourhood
Reading Time: 3 minutes A new documentary, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, examines the extraordinary life and career of Fred Rogers
Parents have the power to release their child’s remarkable inner gifts
Reading Time: 3 minutes The talents of some children are like buried treasure. But you can trust a parent to see these precious gifts and help unearth them