Ordinary folks don’t care about arts: Harper
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008Sep 24, 2008 04:30 AM Comments on this story (178) Robert Benzie In Montreal Bruce Campion-Smith In Vancouver Les Whittington In Saskatoon [original] Prime Minister Stephen Harper has sparked a culture war in the federal election campaign with a claim that “ordinary people” don’t care about arts funding. Under fire for his government’s $45 million [...]
Harper Plays Populist Tune on Arts Cuts
Saturday, September 20th, 2008No Point Funding Programs ‘People Actually Don’t Want’. James Bradshaw, Globe and Mail, September 11, 2008 TORONTO — In his first detailed defence of $45-million in controversial cuts to arts and culture funding, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper called his party’s decisions good governance and said the government must walk “a fine line” between providing financial [...]
Author Yann Martel invites Stephen Harper to read the Kreuzer Sonata
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008Author Yann Martel has been challenging our Prime Minister to read great works of literature for some time now and documenting the process on his great web site. Recently he decided to suggest Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata, to which the Stand on Guard for CBC Coalition added Jane Coop and Andrew Dawes playing the music [...]