Every so often, you meet someone with a job title that makes you go, "Huh?" Either it's too technical to understand, too hard to describe or in some cases, people just may not have heard of it. But, why would someone not have heard about a job existing?

Simple: All the changes that have come about the past 10 years, from environmental policy to emerging te...
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In the Greater Toronto Area and across Canada, Black History Month inspires Canadians of all diversities to take the opportunity to recognize and educate themselves about the legacy, achievements and contributions of black Canadians to this nation's history, culture and heritage.

My perspective is that black history is Canadian history, and this ong...
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She's Britain's most successful female solo artist but has remained a glamorous enigma - until now. Sade emerges from her country retreat to tell how she's a tree-climbing tomboy at heart

Sade is so very private, so extremely wary of the press that her friends - all of whom are bound to silence - have nicknamed her Howie, after Howard Hughes. T...
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In the 70s and 80s, Gil Scott-Heron's music was a mesmerising mix of wry poetry and politics and he became known as 'the godfather of rap' and 'the black Bob Dylan'. But then he got into drugs and, not so long ago, it looked like he was finished. Now the great outsider is back, he's made a new album and he's here on tour. He tells Sean O'Hagan his extra...
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In a grey room with a concrete floor, bars on the windows and fluorescent tube lighting, a group of about 40 tourists is sitting on narrow benches listening to Ntambo Mbatha, a 49-year-old former inmate on Ro...
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Hot Docs is pleased to announce that the February installment of the Doc Soup monthly screening series will feature SOUNDTRACK FOR A REVOLUTION (USA, 82 MIN) by filmmakers Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman (NANKING, Hot Docs 2007 selection; TWIN TOWERS, 2003 Academy Award winner). An official selection of the Cannes and Tribeca film festivals and shortlisted for a Be...
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Heralding Black History Month, The Canadian Stage Company presents the revival of Obsidian Theatre's acclaimed production of Intimate Apparel by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage. A turn-of-the-century love story set in New York, the production reunites director Philip Akin with the original Canadian cast: Dora Award-winning actor Raven Dau...
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