By James Camp 5/22 5:24pm

books

"Canada." (Courtesy Ecco)

True North: Horrible Things Happen in Richard Ford’s Impressive Seventh Novel

Near the end of Canada (Ecco, 432 pp., $27.99), the new novel by Richard Ford, the narrator suggests a few literary parallels to the story he’s just finished telling. It’s quite a crib note:

[These books] to me seem secretly about my young life—The Heart of Darkness, The Great Gatsby, The Sheltering Sky, The Nick Adams Stories, The Mayor of Casterbridge. A mission into the void. Abandonment. A figure, possibly mysterious, but finally not… Read More

By Rex Reed 4/24 8:24pm

movies

Speedman in Citizen Gangster.

Citizen Gangster: An Epic (Canadian) Saga of Crime and Obsession

A cross between Robin Hood and Baby Face Nelson, Edwin Boyd was (and still is) Canada’s most popular and notorious bank robber. A decent family man and decorated war hero, he returned from World War II with one dream in mind: to provide for his wife and two children by making a living as an actor. All he got was frustration, desperation, rejection and tragedy. Thanks to careful writing and direction by newcomer Nathan Morlando and a powerful, charismatic centerpiece performance by Canadian heartthrob Scott Speedman, Citizen Gangster is a sympathetic portrait of this legendary career criminal as steeped in nuance and controversy as that of Clyde Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde. Read More

By Rex Reed 7/26/11 7:27pm

movies

Speedman, Hampshire and Baruchel.

When Good Neighbors Hop the Fence

In dramatic Contrast to the usual vapid monotony that permeates most Canadian  films, Good Neighbors is a toxic thriller with unbearable intensity about an odd group of tenants in a small Montreal apartment house in the dead of a Quebec winter. Shades of Roman Polanski’s The Tenant and Alfred  Hitchcock’s I Confess come to mind Read More

By Mike Taylor 9/15/10 8:14pm

Lehman Brothers Sues Canadians, Non-Canadians

Bankrupt investment firm Lehman Brothers Holdings, which today celebrates the two-year anniversary of its historic implosion, is suing the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and many others for $3 billion, Reuters reports.

Lehman says it’s owed the $3 billion because CIBC and others were unfairly allowed to make claims against it as it filed Read More

By Sam Chandan 4/28/10 9:11pm

This Maple Leaf Doesn’t Crumple

Real estate bankers, be on guard: The International Monetary Fund has set its gaze on a share of your firms’ profits. More than six months after the Group of Twenty (G20) leading nations put forward a global bank tax, the I.M.F. presented its interim report on April 16. Titled “A Fair and Sustainable Read More

By Dana Rubinstein 9/22/09 12:08pm

Canada Wants as Much as 100K Feet

On Nov. 14, 1997, when the government of Canada opened its brand-new Consulate General offices on the mezzanine and concourse levels of 1251 Avenue of the Americas, the country’s trade minister and two uniformed mounties traveled down south for the occasion.

The Canadians unveiled an 80-square-foot artwork by Inuit artist Irene Avaalaaqiaq, and Mayor Giuliani Read More

By Tom Acitelli 10/20/08 5:10pm

O, Canada! Office Market Up North Buoyant, But Dull

Our neighbors to the north have a stronger office market and a brighter outlook for said market going into 2009, according to a CB Richard Ellis analysis. Highlights from the analysis, part of an invitation-only Webcast held Oct. 14, include:

  • Canada’s commercial real estate market is faring better compared to other Read More