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Creative Women Doing Sixty: Rita MacNeil, Cape Breton's First Lady of Song

Apr 22, 2013 - Mehreen Shahid, TEC Intern

"I don't read and write music, I just feel it, and it all comes at once." – Rita MacNeil   On Monday, April 22, residents o...

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Creative Women Doing Sixty: Jeanne Lamon Takes Home Centre Stage

Feb 14, 2013 - Mehreen Shahid, TEC Intern

Even as she was learning to co-ordinate fine motor skills using her tiny fingers at three years old, Jeanne Lamon knew she was meant to play the vio...

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Creative Women Doing Sixty: Review of Dear Life by Alice Munro

Jan 29, 2013 - Jessie Hale

It is nothing particularly groundbreaking or controversial to announce that, at eighty-one years old, Alice Munro is still one of the most brilliant...

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Creative Women Doing Sixty: Celebrating the Marvellous

Jan 08, 2013 - Beth McAuley

  In 1994, when Gloria Steinem turned sixty, she published a collection of essays entitled Moving Beyond Words. Ms. Steinem is, of course, the f...