If you’ve watched the CBC lately, or taken the Toronto subway, you’ve seen The Republic of Doyle. The network is going all out to raise awareness of its new prime-time crime caper. This heavily-promoted comedy-drama isn’t just hype, though: it’s living up to critical and audience expectations (yes, even earning praise from the Globe and Mail’s exacting TV critic and Doyle namesake, John Doyle).

Arthur Spray visits the Atlantic Canada House on Vancouver’s Granville Island at the Olympics.

If there is something that can be said about Atlantic Canadians, it is that we throw one hell of a party, and everyone wants to come.  What better place to show the rest of the country our hospitality than at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, BC, as the entire world comes to our doorstep to see who we are.  

Atlantic Canada prides itself on many things, whether it’s people, history, or geography. An unspoken addition to this list would almost always be its booze. Whether you’re talking about of stories about rum-soaked coves or hometown brews, Eastern Canada is inseparable from its myths and legends of liquor.

Actor, playwright, and director Graeme Gillis takes it all in. By day, this member of the Actor’s Studio can be found busily inspiring young dramatists as the Artistic Director of Youngblood, the company of emerging, under-30 playwrights at Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City. By night, he’s probably channelling his experiences into a new play. Gillis is someone who has grown comfortable with being away from home, while developing his imagination on what he has left behind.

Don’t call Dave Carroll a flash in the pan just yet. Just days after wrapping his third and final YouTube video instalment in his United Airlines trilogy recounting his now famous broken guitar story, Carroll got an extraordinary offer from New York.  Carroll accepted and appeared on ABC's The View Thursday January 14th along with Rachel Weisz, star of The Lovely Bones.

2009 has been a massive year for Nova Scotia’s Joel Plaskett. After releasing the critically acclaimed triple album Three (MapleMusic), he opened for Paul McCartney on the Halifax Commons and toured through most of Canada’s finest theatres. Even with a record eight East Coast Music Award nominations announced earlier this month, this multi-talented singer, songwriter, and producer found time for an intimate acoustic performance at the Pearl Theatre in Lunenburg NS right before the holiday season on December 12, 2009.

A feature review and interview, by Heather Ladd

In a season when Handel’s Messiah is hauled out, dusted off, and performed to countless audiences around the country, a new and intriguing choral piece has been launched. Peter-Anthony Togni’s Lamentatio Jeremiah Prophetae, a concerto for bass clarinet and choir, was performed on November 14 to a full and rapt audience gathered at Toronto’s St. Anne’s Anglican Church.

The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall, started their most recent Canadian visit in St. John's on Monday. The Duke, better known as Prince Charles, has toured Canada 15 times prior to this visit. For his wife Camilla, this marks her first official visit to the country as a member of the royal family.

After releasing their sophomore album Things Fall Apart  (Sonic/Warner) in May of this year, The Novaks haven’t looked back. With numerous successful gigs this summer including an opening slot with KISS, this band is ready to throw down the hammer on their Canadian tour later this month.

The Fredericton-based Beaverbrook Art Gallery has won an appeal in a long-standing dispute over 85 works of art in its collection that were being claimed by Lord Beaverbrook's descendents.

The ruling, which was released overnight, brings to an end a five-year legal battle between the gallery and the U.K.-based Beaverbrook Foundation, which is controlled by descendents of the Canadian-born British politician and businessman, who died in 1964.