Unpublished Newswire
Amid a struggle to attract new growth to rural Manitoba, some communities are finding creative ways to sell Manitobans on small-town living.
September 12, 2024 - 18:02 | Danton Unger | CTV News - Canada
When Jack Long opened his first musical instrument store in Toronto in 1956, he was a skilled jazz trumpeter without a clue about business. “I didn’t even know what an invoice was,” he often said.Mr. Long learned the hard way. When sales were slow, he and a drummer friend, Jack McQuade, started giving lessons in the store’s back rooms. When they discovered colleagues often wanted to borrow instruments, Mr. Long invented modest rental fees: “three dollars if it was small, four dollars if it was bigger.”
September 12, 2024 - 18:00 | Nicholas Jennings | The Globe and Mail
Curious, courageous, determined, Maria Tippett traced the development of Canada’s visual culture in a dozen books, among them warts-and-all biographies of some of the country’s most venerated artists.Her books, including definitive biographies of painters Fred Varley, Emily Carr and Bill Reid, helped shift attention to the achievements of artists in British Columbia, her home province.
September 12, 2024 - 18:00 | Judy Stoffman | The Globe and Mail
A month after the first note, a Global Affairs official wrote instead that no heads of mission, including Clark, were involved in the 'selection or approval process'
September 12, 2024 - 17:56 | Catherine Lévesque | National Post
The new mill will focus on production of oriented strand board, a versatile and specifically engineered wood panel commonly used in home construction.
September 12, 2024 - 17:55 | | Global News - Canada
As Saskatchewan is facing a shortage of veterinarians, owners of exotic pets are in a particularly tricky situation if their animal needs care.
September 12, 2024 - 17:37 | Hallee Mandryk | CTV News - Canada
