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Ottawa protestors plan to stay put
Politics Insider for Jan. 31: Protesting truckers settle in for the long haul; public opinion on the convoy waivers; Ottawa contradicts itself on Ukraine
Tracing the remarkable rise of Joni Mitchell
An ambitious new retrospective explores the early years of the small-town folk singer, from a Yorkville coffee shop to an undeniable musical force
The poetry and wisdom of Joni Mitchell and Gordon Lightfoot
Two new biographies explore the lives of the Canadian music icons
The Interview: Joni Mitchell
From 2014: Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell on Georgia O’Keeffe, the Kardashians, the men she loved and her life in B.C.
Strippers, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell
Our review of a new book by Graham Nash
Leonard Cohen’s tale of redemption
A new biography of Leonard Cohen provides new details on Jimi Hendrix, Phil Spector and Joni Mitchell
Forever Young
Neil Young was the designated patriarch at this year’s Juno love-in between elders and upstarts
Newsmakers
Madonna fiddles while Joni burns, Close encounters you might not want, and In his brother’s footsteps
Quite an introduction
Between the sometimes-luminous opening ceremonies and the corny clichés of the closing show, Canada presented versions of itself the world had never seen
A missed opportunity for diversity
Mark Steyn on the opening ceremonies: Where was the genuinely bizarro cavalcade?
The Opening Ceremonies: To see ourselves as others see us
Paul Wells reports on the “sometimes incomprehensible, but sometimes heart-stoppingly beautiful” show
‘Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music from Hank Snow to The Band,’ by Jason Schneider
One of the few Canadian music books that goes back as far as Hank Snow and Wilf Carter—and sheds new light on some of the more canonized mouldy oldies