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Music may be the food of love, but theater is the stuff of laughs in this comedy-drama about the romances and backstabbing at a Canadian Shakespeare company. The next production at the cash-strapped New Burbage Theatre Festival needs to be a hit, and over the objections of director Geoffrey Tennant (Paul Gross), it's Macbeth. As well as staging the difficult (and purportedly cursed) tragedy, Tennant must deal with a mutinous troupe, an incompetent festival manager (Mark McKinney of The Kids in the Hall) and the legacy of his dead, beloved predecessor, who haunts him like Banquo...
...digs, Western ski-resort companies are scouting out the market-just as foreign golf-course firms did a few years earlier. This week, Shanghai will host the first-ever Asia Pacific Snow Conference, aimed at educating Chinese on everything from managing ski resorts to choosing the best snowboard wax. Canadian ski-resort developer Intrawest Corp., which runs Whistler Blackcomb, says it may start work on up to five new resorts in China in the next six months. Meanwhile, Italian firm Tecnica, the world's largest ski-boot manufacturer, arrived in China last fall; the company has already sold...
...genres. This diverse array of songs is unified by Case’s uncannily expressive vocals and the crack musicianship of her collaborators from fellow alt-Americana acts Calexico, The Sadies, and former member of The Band Garth Hudson. Fans who know Case exclusively through her work with the Canadian power-pop outfit The New Pornographers will be surprised by this album’s grittier, more soulful aesthetic. Country-fried “Confessor” tracks like “Star Witness” and “Hold On, Hold On” inhabit a different sonic...
...Case has arrived at her vocal and lyrical maturity via a meandering musical route, giving a handful of genres a try along the way. (That same route, by the way, could also make the Washington-State-raised Chicago resident eligible for a prize as Most Canadian Non-Canadian to Live Outside of Canada.) While at art school in Vancouver in the 1990s, Case played drums in a couple punk outfits. Her upbeat alter ego from those days still surfaces regularly when she sings with the New Pornographers, Vancouver's indie pop-rock supergroup. And Case has also been in cahoots...
...Dubai deal was checked out by a 12-member board headed by the Treasury Secretary, which is mandated under U.S. law governing foreign investments. U.S. critics say the oversight process paid insufficient attention to the security implications of the transaction and failed to keep Congress informed. But the Canadian process was even lower key. Transport Canada officials met with executives of P&O Ports Canada Inc. after being notified of the deal last month, but only to check whether the new owners would honor the company's existing security plan. Under Canadian regulations, a new port-terminal owner...