Peter Herrndorf – today’s President and CEO of the National Arts Centre (title changed from Director General used in Southam’s day) comments on the importance of good contacts in government to get things done at federal cultural agencies and the connections he developed, especially with former Finance Minister Mitchell Sharp, the [...]
Yesterday, in celebration of the launch of Art and Politics, we brought you an interview with G. Hamilton Southam.
Today we’ll continue this series with conversations with Marcel Masse, Marti Maraden, and Robert Lepage.
On political patronage – The Hon. Marcel Masse was the minister responsible for culture on the Conservative government of Brian Mulroney. [...]
We’re very excited that today is the release of a Dundurn book on the history of the National Arts Centre, Art and Politics.
The author, Sarah Jennings, is a political/cultural journalist who served for nearly a decade as the CBC’s national arts reporter from Ottawa. She’s provided us with some of the MP3’s of her interviews [...]
I can think of nothing better than to enjoy the summer by the side of a remote lake, as Gerard Kenney is fortunate to do. Here he tells about his recent book, Lake of the Old Uncles, and his life-long trip to that cabin.
Tell us about your book.
My book is about a one-kilometre trip that [...]