The farcical Céline Dion jukebox musical Titanique is setting its course for Canada. Producers of the off-Broadway smash say the show will make its maiden voyage to Montreal later this year, followed by dates in Toronto. Titanique is a musical parody of James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster Titanic. It’s centred on a Dion character who crashes a tour group … Read more
Tokyo claims the Diaoyus belong to the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa, which includes the area once known as Ryukyu. However, Beijing has long disputed the notion that the Diaoyus were part of the Ryukyu kingdom. Okinawa or Ryukyu? The prefecture on the front line of China-Japan ties Liu Chengyong, director of the China National Archives … Read more
Coloradans looking for travel recommendations don’t need to go far to hit the nation’s top spot. That’s according to Men’s Journal, which this week released its list of the 50 best vacation destinations for 2024 and dubbed Ouray the No. 1 must-hit locale. The Western Slope mountain town beat out many of the country’s most … Read more
The team at Research Casting International in Trenton, Ontario is responsible for preparing and building many dinosaur skeletons that are on display in museums around the world. (Ideacom International Inc. ) Roberto Verdecchia is one of the directors of Secrets of the Jurassic Dinosaurs The next time you step into the Royal Ontario Museum, the … Read more
Data found by UKG, a multinational technology company that provides human resource management services, exposed how managers have just as much of an impact on people’s mental health as their spouses. A UKG survey, which studied ten countries across the globe, found that 69 per cent of people have their mental well-being affected by their … Read more
Tokyo digital art museum teamLab Borderless closed its doors on the city’s Odaiba artificial island in August 2022. But now it is about to be reborn, in the Azabudai Hills development. The highly anticipated reopening of the art attraction in its new home in the centre of the Japanese capital takes place on February 9, … Read more
The Current11:27Explorers say they’ve found Amelia Earhart’s plane A deep-sea exploration company says it may have found the wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s plane, reigniting a mystery that dates back to the famed pilot’s disappearance in 1937. “She’s America’s favourite missing person … she was a fantastic person, a pioneer in the aviation field, an early … Read more
The city was long seen culture-wise as little more than a gateway to the heritage sites of Mysore and Hampi. But that is changing as private institutions spearhead a boom in creativity and inclusivity, across art, music, theatre and food. Inside India’s beautiful district of the dead, now among its finest attractions Validation has come … Read more
Nerene Virgin, a former actor, public broadcaster, anti-racism advocate and educator also known for her trailblazing work, has died in Burlington, Ont., at age 77. Virgin, a sixth-generation Hamiltonian, was a teacher before gaining prominence for playing Jodie on the TVO children’s show Today’s Special in the 1980s. She was also host of the CTV public affairs show Eye on Toronto. In … Read more
People could be making tracks to see an impressive new exhibit of 320-million-year-old footprints at the Cape Breton Fossil Centre in Sydney Mines, N.S. A group of geologists from Cape Breton University recently found fossilized claw imprints that are remarkable for their size and age. “The stuff we get on Cape Breton and in Nova Scotia … Read more
