@ Home with Alan Gratias
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I was beginning to take more notice of my community of trees as consumers of carbon dioxide and providers of oxygen. Read More
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Gravitas Edward Burtynsky
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If you were in charge of the world for one day, what would you change?
Love to see what would happen if everyone believed climate change was real, and post-truth and alternative facts weren’t things we had to contend with. Read More
Gravitas Sarah Slean
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Photo courtesy Rick Matthews Sarah Slean answers 21 Gravitas Questions Signed to Atlantic/Warner Records at 19, three-time Juno nominee and modern-day Renaissance woman Sarah Slean has released 11 albums. She has also published two volumes of poetry, starred in short films and a movie musical, written two string quartets, held numerous exhibits of her paintings,… Read More
Gravitas Gavin Crawford
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Photography by Sarah Kirby Image Photography Gavin Crawford answers 23 Gravitas Questions Gavin Crawford is currently the host and laugh meister on Because News which airs weekly on CBC Radio One. The program is a panel show on which three celebrity panellists compete to answer questions about current affairs. He also starred in Festival Players… Read More
@ Home with Alan Gratias
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Nothing quite says summer as much as the garden party, pink pants, broad brimmed hat, and gin and tonics. Read More
@ Home With Alan Gratias
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Photography by Alan Gratias Alan visits Peni Patrick and Victor Lind The invitation from Peni was simple. “Come for vodka tonics in the shade under the big maple tree. I will put out the wicker furniture.” The winter has been mean, far too long, and brutish. Now spring is playing tricks so the prospect of… Read More
Saitarg’s Gravitas Quotient Charlotte Gray
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Photography by Mark Rayes Roberts Charlotte Gray Answers 17 Questions Charlotte Gray is one of Canada’s best-known biographers and writers of popular history. Her 11th book, Murdered Midas; A Millionaire, His Gold Mine, and a Strange Death on an Island Paradise will be published in September. Her ability to provide intriguing entry points into Canadian… Read More
Saitarg’s Gravitas Quotient David Bidini
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Photo courtesy Pat Kane David Bidini answers 22 Gravitas questions Author and musician Dave Bidini is the only person to have been nominated for a Gemini, Genie, and Juno, as well CBC’s Canada Reads. A founding member of Rheostatics, he has written 10 books, including On a Cold Road, Tropic of Hockey, Around the World… Read More
@ Home with Alan Gratias
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On route, the guests stop in astonishment in front of what I thought was an oversized abstract painting but turns out to be a traditional pull-down classroom map with a dated colour delineation of Europe. Read More
Alan Gratias is at home with Judith and Xander van Bastelaar
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Guests appear from all over the property, emerging from the beach house, from the stone benches around the open pit fire, and from the tiki huts at the water’s edge. Out of the darkness over a hundred family and friends are herded into a group with the beach as background. Read More