Our cookbook of the week is Sift by British pastry chef Nicola Lamb. Jump to the recipes: fruity marshmallows , miso walnut double-thick chocolate-chip cookies , and caramel-poached oranges with sabayon and langues de chat . Asking “why” has served Nicola Lamb well. The pastry chef, recipe developer and writer trained in renowned New York […]

Set for release on May 13 with Sutherland House Books, Canada’s Main Street: The Epic Story of the Trans-Canada Highway by Craig Baird finally gives this nation-shaping infrastructure project its due. In this excerpt, Baird introduces the ambitious, messy and overlooked saga of the coast-to-coast highway that is the true spine of modern Canada. The […]

The latest salvo in U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war is a threat to slap 100 per cent tariffs on foreign films. In a post to Truth Social Sunday night, Trump wrote: “I am authorizing the Department of Commerce, and the United States Trade Representative, to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% Tariff […]

There’s only one sure way to beat the February blahs, and you don’t have to dress in layers, or dress at all, to enjoy it. Snuggle up and crack open a good book.     How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love and Plenty Bonny Reichert Appetite by Random House During […]

Our cookbook of the week is Crave by Calgary-based sisters Carolyne McIntyre Jackson and Jodi Willoughby, who co-founded the Prairie bakery of the same name. Jump to the recipes: raspberry crumb loaf , oatmeal milk chocolate toffee cookies and vanilla sheet cake with strawberry buttercream frosting. Carolyne McIntyre Jackson and Jodi Willoughby have worked together […]

Our cookbook of the week is Wafu Cooking by Sonoko Sakai. Jump to the recipes: chunky chocolate miso banana bread , pasta with miso Bolognese sauce and miso-honey butter on toasted onigiri . Cook, teacher and writer Sonoko Sakai has called many places home. From being raised in places such as Mexico City and Tokyo […]

Let’s start with the nagging question of what that asterisk means in the title Thunderbolts*. Is it signalling that the movie is void where prohibited by law? That perhaps some animals WERE harmed in the making of it? Batteries not included? Results may vary? According to the studio behind the movie, it means “the Avengers […]

Amy Jordan needed to scare the daylights out of the reader early in her new thriller, The Dark Hours. She wanted them to share the terrors experienced by a young Irish cop named Julia Harte when she and her partner assume they are responding to a routine noise complaint in a residential area. Early critical […]

Our cookbook of the week is Tahini Baby by chef and television host Eden Grinshpan with Rachel Holtzman. Jump to the recipes: basbousa pancakes with orange blossom syrup, creamy feta wedge salad with garlicky bread crumbs and mint, and rosemary-honey halloumi fries . Eden Grinshpan takes a fluid approach to veg-forward food. The recipes in […]

Before we delve into the so-so action-capital-gains-thriller that is The Accountant 2, let’s take a moment to consider just how long it’s been since the two-film franchise’s first instalment. Nine years. Nine. It’s not a record for a sequel — Mary Poppins took more than half a century to return — but it is a […]