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This season's books for children - from babies to teens - feature big-name authors and illustrators, anticipated debuts, and a fluffle of bunnies Picture Books The Girl Who Loved Giraffes Kathy Stinson and François Thisdale, ill. My Indian Saqamaw Mi'sel Joe and Sheila O'Neill Breakwater Books, April When Scottish-Canadian explorer William Epps Cormack wrote about his 1822 journey across Newfoundland in search of Beothuk camps, he referred to his guide solely as "My Indian." Orca Book Publishers, April Author Hannalora Leavitt lost most of her vision when she was 12 due to cancer. [Extracted from the article]

There's no problem too big to solve when you have the Wenger Giant Swiss Army Knife, complete with 85 tools, including fish scaler, cigar cutter, double-cut wood saw, toothpick, and [...]

This year's Polaris Prize for best Canadian album went to Final Fantasy, but the true hidden gem found on the Polaris short list is Malajube-a French-language band from Montreal. Listening [...]

The Science of Sleep begins with the main character, Stephane Miroux, whipping up a mystical recipe for making dreams, with ingredients like a handful of reminiscences, musical choices (on vinyl) [...]

High school is hell--especially if you're the Canadian Idol. When Melissa O'Neil won the TV singing contest last year, her classmates were starting Grade 12 at Lester B. Pearson High [...]

The Canadian Idol stage is packed--everyone from U.S. teen actress Amanda Bynes to CTV head honcho Ivan Fecan is angling to congratulate winner Eva Avila. But when the pride of [...]

When radio deejay Pascal Beausoleil told his colleagues at CHOQ--a French-language station in Toronto--that he was going to get the 75-year-old chairman of the CBC to talk on-air for 15 [...]

The overly polished blues guitar on Bob Dylan's latest, Modern Times, may have you pining for the raw edge of Highway 61 Revisited, but there are some truly pleasurable moments [...]

HBO's cop drama The Wire gives equal attention to the police and the criminals. Jimmy McNulty may be the best detective on TV, but drug dealers like Avon Barksdale and [...]

Mr. Meaty, a new kids' TV show, is raising a few eyebrows. "It brainwashes children that animals were meant to be eaten," states one online petition, which currently has 585 [...]

"I'm sure they were probably all terrified of me and thinking I was a monster," says Mary-Louise Parker, referring to her three female co-stars in The Robber Bride, a CBC/Oxygen [...]

Back in 2004, Anna Paquin was the envy of her liberal American friends. The holder of two passports--Canada and New Zealand--the New York-based actor could have easily set up house [...]

If the Prime Minister of Canada and the Ottawa press gallery were members of a family, says Luann Linquist, a California-based, Oprah-approved therapist, 'then the press are the kids and [...]

About a decade ago, Toronto bluegrass band Heartbreak Hill was drawing big crowds at the city's Silver Dollar club. They were young musicians (in their 20s) and the audience skewed [...]

The Sopranos social club will never be the same. As soon as Tony Soprano found out that one of his guys, Vito Spatafore, was gay, the Freudian slips started to [...]

Meet Glamour Girl, Party Girl, Fashion Girl, Preppy Girl, Rock 'n' Roll Girl, All-Star Girl, Country Girl, Urban Girl and Boho Girl--your six-year-old's new role models. Girl Authority is the [...]

"I HATE SHOPPING," says Michaelle Jean. "I do it all in one day, power shopping." But she loves clothes. After three days of intense governor-generalling in Winnipeg, Jean plops down [...]