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Canada’s colonial past will be explored through music by the Lily String Quartet.The Calgary-based chamber ensemble, often heard performing live on the CBC, will play music new and old on Sunday at The Matchbox in Red Deer.

Don’t write to be famous, write to tell stories — then create a believable world, says R.P. MacIntyre, the next writer-in-residence at Red Deer College.

MONTREAL — Yoko Ono says she will always remember Montreal’s skyline when she thinks about the bed-in for peace she staged with former Beatle John Lennon in a downtown hotel 40 years ago.

Madonna and her three children toured a day-care centre built by her charity Monday as critics slammed the star’s attempt to adopt a second child from this poor African nation and a judge delayed a ruling in the case until Friday.

The Red Deer College music program is winding down the concert season in style with two nights of musical variety this week.

Books on the Arctic, Islam, the Canada Pension Plan, city politics and aboriginal cultural preservation have made the short list for the 11th annual Donner Prize.

Ticketmaster wants the Manitoba government to abolish its ticket-scalping law, saying it’s unenforceable.

If success equals talent plus determination, then The Painted Birds are probably destined for great things.

A evening of live jazz is being planned to support valuable local programs funded by the Red Deer Community Foundation.

VANCOUVER — Nickelback is a love ’em or hate ’em sort of band, and on Sunday the Juno Awards loved them.