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Nearly 70 years ago, the Alberta government – under then premier William Aberhart – issued the Accurate News and Information Act to force newspapers to print official statements in response to news stories that the cabinet disagreed with.

It isn’t easy to get out to a world-famous gallery to see the works of Vincent van Gogh. Thankfully, the Arden Theatre is bringing those works to St. Albert, albeit in a cinematic sense.

Art is a powerful medicine. That’s the theme of the seventh annual Rubaboo Aboriginal Arts Festival and one that artistic director Christine Sokaymoh Frederick firmly adheres to. She cites a famous Louis Riel quote.

American politics is a pretty interesting place these days, with candidates such as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump posturing themselves as the most viable leaders for their respective parties during this presidential election year.

Night Hours features works that capture the vastness of the night sky and the supernatural darkened world.

Marriage is a big topic this month in theatre. Over at the Citadel, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf represents the visceral strip down of a broken marriage.

On his merry way to the 2016 Grammy Awards, singer-songwriter Alex Cuba returns to St. Albert’s Arden Theatre to give us bootie-bustin’ dose of trendy Cuban-soul-rock music.

The new series for Reel Mondays is all spooled to start with a marvelous little British period drama based on one woman’s real life experiences around the First World War.

Even here in Alberta, the heart of country music, RĂ©mi Bolduc’s broad-based jazz ensemble is respected and admired for its eloquence, energy and musicianship. It’s not that Bolduc and the jazz ensemble tours here that often.

Hollywood might be Tinseltown but it’s also a place where businesspeople are always trying to make the most profit with the least risk.