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Donating to a music scholarship in Bette-Joan Rac's name, collector Alex Archbold honours Edmonton piano teacher's legacy while fulfilling his own dreams

Cecilia Eckbäck's latest novel, The Historians published by Harper Collins Canada, explores the relationship between a group of friends living in Sweden in 1943 after one of them dies in mysterious circumstances.

Annual Old Strathcona ice festival partners with the downtown to encourage walking tours and visits to area restaurants.

“The themes on this album involve emotion, darkness, depression, journeys, revelations, hopefulness, isolation, embrace, and escape,” said Banff musician Kasey Nolan. “There’s one song to reflect each of those things, while they are all also encompassed in the entire album ... I wrote it with the intention of it being one progressive piece.”

“Land of Big Numbers,” by Te-Ping Chen (Mariner Books) A Chinese tech company recently made headlines for its use of “smart” cushions in office chairs to monitor its employees’ workplace performance.

“Wild Swims,” by Dorthe Nors (Graywolf Press) “Hygge” is the Danish word for a sense of coziness and comfort that is supposedly characteristic of that Scandinavian country.

Bundle up and enjoy the outdoor entertainment, lights and ice sculptures for this year's Deep Freeze fete, in and around Alberta Ave.

“We Could Be Heroes,” by Mike Chen (Mira) In Mike Chen’s “We Could Be Heroes,” Jamie and Zoe each wake up alone in an unfamiliar apartment. Neither has any memory of who they are or how they got there.

TORONTO — The pandemic has its prints all over Canada's winter TV season.

A local filmmaker is looking to film an upcoming movie in the Cold Lake area, which will transform the city into Soviet-era Russia