Arts & Culture

10 Things Canadians Used to Have in Their Homes That Have Basically Disappeared Once upon a time, every house seemed to have the same strange collection of objects. Nobody announced their disappearance. One day, they were just gone. There was a time when you could walk into almost any Canadian home and immediately recognize the inventory. A phone book sat near the telephone. An ashtray was somewhere in the living […]

  There are times for headlines, interviews and debate. And there are times to turn down the noise, settle in and spend an hour with a good book. The Canadianist Radio Network is introducing The Book Hour, a weekly radio series devoted to books, ideas and long-form storytelling. Each edition will feature a book presented aloud, giving listeners a chance to experience writing in a way that has largely disappeared […]

The Canadian TV Guilty Pleasures We’d Never Admit We Loved They weren’t always prestige television. Some were cheesy, some were weird, and some were so unmistakably Canadian they probably couldn’t have been made anywhere else. But when they came on, we watched. Canadian television used to be wonderfully strange. There was a time when you turned on the television and had no idea whether you were about to watch a […]