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Can You Hear Me Now? is a book by Celina Caesar-Chavannes.(Random House Canada) Can You Hear Me Now? is a memoir by entrepreneur and former politician Celina Caesar-Chavannes. Caesar-Chavannes was the first Black MP to represent the riding of Whitby, Ont. But her political career wasnt easy, and she was known for speaking out about social and racial injustices within political institutions and in her community. She eventually decided to leave the party she ran for, the Liberals.  Can You He...

Maximo Park at Bingley Music Live 2017 WE have been starved of most meaningful live music now for over a year. But there is, now, at least light at the end of the tunnel as bands tentatively pencil in dates for later this year. They include one of the country’s best live acts: Maxïmo Park, who have announced a show at the O2 Academy Oxford on September 2 – and a new album out this weekend. The Geordie indie-rockers are no strangers to Oxford, having raucously played the Academy and, ...

Maximo Park, 2020. Credit: Em Cole When Maxïmo Park scissor-kicked their way on to the indie scene in the mid-’00s alongside the likes of Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs, The Rakes, Franz Ferdinand and fellow north-east rivals The Futureheads, they came armed with a debut album crammed full of killer pop tunes. Back then frontman Paul Smith was a bowling bookworm of energy, documenting his quest for romance in the face of rejection on 2005’s ‘A Certain Trigger’. Over the last 15 years, the...

Linda Leith Publishing / The Walrus Dany Laferrière remembers the confusion he caused among locals after landing in Montreal in 1976. “They didn’t understand,” explains the Haitian-born author in Working in the Bathtub, a new book of interviews, “how someone who worked in a factory, who was black, an immigrant, from an extremely poor country like Haiti, could want to be a writer.” What happened next may well have puzzled Laferrière’s neighbours even more. His 1985 debut, How to ...