When the COVID-19 pandemic finally ends and we look back at this very sad period in human history, there will be a few takeaways that will benefit us down the line. Platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams head the list. They have certainly made an enormous impact on my life, notably in my role hosting a video show for Suburban On Air and my role as a communications professional and a city councillor.
I have met too many people to mention whose businesses have been decimated by the pandemic. Others are only surviving thanks to federal government assistance. For
Marcie Balaban, COVID-19 could have spelled the end of her stellar quarter century career as a motivational speaker and business matchmaker. The latter represents the co-ordinated pairing of entrepreneurs and corporations by arranging small boardroom meetings with various owners or upper management of companies that Balaban, via her company Letâs Get Going, believes are good matches. Instead of blindly talking to unknow
The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA), and Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (PBALille) have each developed programs in recent years specifically for people with autism and other neurodiverse conditions. The three institutions, all of which are members of the FRAME (FRench American Museum Exchange) network, have combined their expertise to create a Guide for Welcoming Museum Visitors with Autism Spectrum Disorder, a free digital publication.Â
As agents of change, inclusion and social cohesion, the museums in the FRAME network are deeply committed to providing equal access to their collections for all audiences through targeted programs for visitors with special needs. To close Autism Awareness Month (in April), FRAME, the DMA, MMFA and PBALille are releasing this guide to help museums around the world make the arts and the museum experience accessible to people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a group with few museum programs that are tailored to it
A McGill phonebooth and the largest art heist in Canadian history
The story of the “Skylight Capers” and the 1972 robbery of the Montreal Fine Arts Museum
Alexandre Hinton, Multimedia Editor
An ill-omened spirit fell over Montreal in the early morning hours of September 4, 1972.
The city was in a state of despair as the public mourned the
loss
of 37 Wagon Wheel club-goers in an atrocious fire. Few celebrated the
Montreal Expos victory
over the St. Louis Cardinals. The
top song
on the Canadian charts for that week was
“Alone Again,” a morbid ballad composed by Irish singer-songwriter Gilbert O Sullivan.
Meanwhile, three thieves were preparing to execute the largest art heist in Canadian
the Benin Bronzes held in the country’s museums are to be returned. ‘We face up to our historic and moral responsibility to shine a light and work on Germany’s historic past,’ said Grütters after an online meeting of museum directors and politicians convened by the cultural ministry. Some 1,100 of the sculptures from Benin can be found in German museums, with a complete list to be published by 15 June, it has been agreed. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, has said that he hopes returns can begin as early as 2022.
On Wednesday,
Samsung announced that the family of Lee Kun-hee, the founder of the company who died last October, will pay more than 12 trillion Korean won (nearly US$11 billion) in inheritance taxes on his estate. As part of the tax owing,
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