October 24, 2011 Bill Brownstein for Postmedia News Canadians tend to shy away from superlatives, particularly when describing ourselves. We’re generally a bashful people and leave the bravado and bragging to our neighbours to the south. So we know something special beckons when a couple of homegrown TV execs outdo themselves in calling their new …
Oct 21, 2011 Bruce DeMara for The Toronto Star Eccentric genius, recluse, hypochondriac. Canadians may think they know who classical music legend Glenn Gould is. Mark Kingwell begs to differ. Kingwell, an author and associate chair of philosophy at the University of Toronto, will offer a more textured view of Gould as the series Extraordinary …
Friday, October 21, 2011 Cassandra Szlarski for The Canadian Press TORONTO From the very beginning, TV producer Kenneth Hirsch knew it would take extraordinary measures to adequately profile the lives of 18 extraordinary Canadians. His plans would not be limited to a TV broadcast — it would involve books, tours, DVDs and an immersive online …