Culture Archives

Russian rap: turning rants and raves into culture

by Robert Price | Dec 19, 2018 | A&E, Politics/Law | 0

PRICE: Vladimir Putin wants Russian bureaucrats to regulate the nation’s rap music. What could go wrong? ($$)

Staying when the government tells you to move

by Mike Robinson | Dec 2, 2018 | A&E, Lifestyle | 0

ROBINSON: How a decision to remain in an ancestral village helped ensure a family maintained strong ties to a culture ($$)

Does Canadian culture warrant widespread taxpayer support?

by Frontier Centre for Public Policy | Nov 29, 2018 | A&E, Politics/Law | 0

Protecting cultural industries from competition and propping them up with public money is just wasteful (FREE)

Stan Lee, left-wing culture warrior

by Michael Taube | Nov 20, 2018 | A&E, Lifestyle | 0

TAUBE: Under his leadership, Marvel directly challenged societal norms on race, religion, war, gender and sexuality ($$)

Rhodes cultural policy is a template for Canada

by Constantine Passaris | Oct 24, 2018 | A&E, Municipal, Public Policy, Travel | 0

The Greeks believe that supporting the arts and culture is not a luxury but an investment in human progress (FREE)

The subsidy table is set, and actors and writers will dine

by Peter Menzies | Sep 12, 2018 | A&E, Politics/Law | 0

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 western civilization worth defending?

by Frontier Centre for Public Policy | Jun 20, 2018 | Education, Opinion, Science, Technology, World | 0

The science, culture and philosophy of the West have been embraced around the world. And millions still flock to our shores (FREE)

Tax the Internet in the name of Canadian culture?

by Peter Menzies | Jun 20, 2018 | Business, Lifestyle, Opinion, Politics/Law, Technology | 0

MENZIES: Canadian production is booming. It hardly needs more official intervention – and funding – to continue to grow

There’s no taboo to social lying

by Dana Wilson | Jan 24, 2018 | Lifestyle, Opinion | 0

Too often, the truth can set you free – from jobs, relationships, money and social opportunities (BASIC membership content)

Victim culture marks a return to a culture of revenge

by Frontier Centre for Public Policy | Jan 22, 2018 | Crime, Education, Opinion, Politics/Law | 0

Where perceived slights are personally avenged, and the law is supplanted as the final arbiter of justice (FREE)

A new wave of B.C. small-town cultural renaissance

by Mike Robinson | Jan 14, 2018 | A&E, Municipal, Opinion | 0

ROBINSON Let’s be honest, most of B.C.’s artistic community has always lived on the Gulf Islands, on Vancouver Island, up the Sunshine Coast, in Haida Gwaii rather than in Vancouver (PREMIUM membership content)

The enduring legacy of maverick media baron Jim Shaw

by Peter Menzies | Jan 6, 2018 | Business, Opinion | 0

A hard-nosed businessman, he made a brilliant cable territory swap, competed ferociously with Telus and pulled Global television from the Canwest inferno (FREE)