Laurie Scott 🇨🇦

Opulent October
Tom Thomson
1915-16

Autumn's Garland
Tom Thomson
1915-16

🚨National Statement from Canada's Healthcare community: #ScienceMatters!

Too often lies – about vaccines, COVID, ivermectin, etc. – harm patients, policies & the public.

Canadian medical, research, clinical and healthcare organizations stand up for science!📢

Signed by over 20 leading orgs...👇

Graham Greene as Lennie and Nicolas Van Burek as George in Of Mice and Men (Stratford Festival, 2007). By John Steinbeck. Directed by Martha Henry. Designed by John Pennoyer. Lighting design by Bonnie Beecher. Sound design by Todd Charlton. Photography by David Hou.

It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of Graham Greene. Graham was a globally recognized film actor and an award-winning stage and television performer, who joined us here at the Stratford Festival for one unforgettable season, in 2007.

My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.

Four members of the Beatles—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr—standing on an airplane staircase, dressed in suits and ties from the 1960s. John Lennon, on the left, wears sunglasses and raises his left hand in a wave, while Paul McCartney, second from the left, smiles and waves with his right hand. George Harrison, second from the right, makes a playful face with his mouth open and hand near his face, and Ringo Starr, on the right, holds his jacket and looks forward. The black-and-white photo captures them against a clear sky, with a metal railing visible in the foreground.

On Aug. 18, 1964, The Beatles landed on Canadian soil for the first time.
They didn't land in Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver.
It was Winnipeg.
And their visit there was a massive event for locals.
This is the story.

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Sundown - Lake Rosseau
A.J. Casson
1981

✨ Announcing our 2026 season! ✨
The culmination of a 40-year career with the Festival, including 14 seasons as Artistic Director, this will be Antoni Cimolino's farewell season, with plays united under the theme of "This Rough Magic".

The 2026 playbill across our four venues...

Canada needs to move toward a public health model of supporting grief Canada needs a national grief strategy to improve support, reduce costs and treat bereavement as a public health issue.

I’ve written about the need for Canada to fill a void in supporting mental health. The Canadian Grief Alliance’s proposal for next steps.
policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/ju...

Yep.

Unlocked | Michael Harris: Canadians would go to the wall for this beautiful country, no matter how tawdry Trump’s trash talk and tariffs get

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

Library and Archives Canada’s backlog is delaying books, blocking research, and hurting public knowledge. “Telling our story well depends on our ability to research it properly, and LAC is often more hindrance than help,” writes Mark Bourrie. thewalrus.ca/canada-archives-...

"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance

Aah Mahwi Nibi is now protected forever!
This 29-hectare stretch of Lake Huron shoreline on the Saugeen (Bruce) Peninsula is home to rare habitats, clean water, and incredible biodiversity. Thanks to our supporters and partners, this land is safe for future generations. Learn more: brnw.ch/21wTsQF

Christine Baranski. Maggie Smith as Rosalind in As You Like It, Stratford Festival 1977. Play by William Shakespeare. Directed by Robin Phillips. Design by Robin Fraser Paye. Lighting design by Gil Wechsler. Photograph by Robert C. Ragsdale.

Christine Baranski: “I think I’m an actress because when I was in high school, we took a train up to the Stratford Festival and I was just hit with an arrow in the heart."

Read more on how a trip to Stratford Festival sparked her love of theatre and acting: www.ellecanada.com/culture/cele...

There are some days when the news can be overwhelming and leave you feeling sad and afraid. Today is one of them.
Try to remember that the good in the world has always outnumbered the bad, stroke a cat and enjoy the sunshine x
(Pic @imageplotter.bsky.social)

Lush looking island in the evening sun

Photo taken on this day in 2021, looking over at a lush Ontario Place as the sun set. Today completely denuded of plant and building. Never forget who did this and the local companies & people who made money off helping out.

The top 10 vacation spots in Canada — voted by you! Where's the best place to visit in Canada? For weeks, listeners have been voting for the vacation spots they love across this big, beautiful country, to build The Current's travel bucket list. Did you...

Stratford's one of CBC's Top 10 Canadian Travel Destinations! 🎉
Our beautiful hometown made The Current's shortlist of best places to travel to in Canada. Thanks to everyone who voted for us throughout the month.

We hope you can come visit us soon! Performances for our 2025 season are underway.

New Day
Adele Webster
2023

Sunset
Tom Thomson
1915

Incomparably fantastic portrait of pensive, slightly melancholy man in the 1430s by Robert Campin, whose day was today.

This is so Canadian. Body Break doing a special elbows up get out to vote segment.

Hudson’s Bay artifacts should be given to the public: Wab Kinew WINNIPEG - Manitoba's premier says he wants Hudson's Bay's artifacts to be handed over to the public rather than put up for auction.

Wab Kinew says items held by Canada's oldest company are part of Canadian and Indigenous history and don't belong in private hands. Hudson's Bay is currently working toward an auction for its 1,700 art pieces, 2,700 artifacts and the 355-year-old royal charter that launched the company.🇨🇦🦫
#Indigisky

Yockenthwaite - A Yorkshire Dales Hamlet by Alison Christine CC BY 2.0 is one of my favourite images of Yorkshire. The star though is the postbox

Yockenthwaite - A Yorkshire Dales Hamlet by Alison Christine CC BY 2.0 is one of my favourite images of Yorkshire. The star though is the postbox. Did you know that there is an official heritage colour for postboxes Royal Mail red, colour ref no. 538BS381C, is the official colour used

Dismay as cross-border library caught in US-Canada feud: ‘We just want to stay open’ The Haskell Free Library and Opera House sits half in Canada, half in Vermont. Now, the US is planning to cut off main entrance access to Canadians

Dismay as cross-border library caught in US-Canada feud: ‘We just want to stay open’

Solidarity. SNL.

The Jack Pine
Tom Thomson
1916-1917

An extremely stocky and muscular ox, painted by George Garrard in 1813.

"they hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak"

our beef:

This work was funded by.........NIH