Reading Time: 4 minutes Over the past four-plus centuries, Mary’s reputation has waxed and waned. A movie due out this year should put a positive spin on it
Category: A&E
Rewriting our history won’t make it go away
Reading Time: 3 minutes Historical revisionists want to rename buildings, pull down statues and rename paintings. Leave our history alone, warts and all
We don’t want to go where trade wars have taken us before
Reading Time: 4 minutes Trump is obviously not deterred by the warnings from economists of a global trade war that could usher in a new depression
Visiting Liverpool in search of John Lennon’s first muse
Reading Time: 5 minutes Sixty years ago, John Lennon’s mother Julia was killed. He never got over the loss and you can find echos of her influence in Liverpool
Banksy, and art’s uneasy alliance with capitalism
Reading Time: 3 minutes The gift shop at the Toronto exhibit offers a swath of overpriced items. What would the ultra left-wing artist think of that?
Out of the roiling heat of Montreal, into the heart of artistic genius
Reading Time: 4 minutes And a full dose of air-conditioned museum comfort certainly doesn’t hurt the appreciation of Picasso
The man who cheated death again and again
Reading Time: 3 minutes Caryl Chessman won eight stays of execution until the gas chamber finally caught up with him on May, 2, 1960
Embrace the moment, regardless of the circumstances
Reading Time: 3 minutes By living lives of integrity, by doing our best despite our imperfections, we find a way to move forward
Why Roseanne shouldn’t have been cancelled
Reading Time: 3 minutes Pulling the plug on a successful product to curry favour in a politically correct environment is all too common today
Television’s telling trend to female cops
Reading Time: 5 minutes On fictional program after fictional program, women dominate. Now universities reflect that trend in reality. Will the job market follow?