Profiles

Kurt Browning

A Lifer Who Loves to Glide by Iris Winston “I’m a lifer.” Canadian skating legend Kurt Browning is talking about how important a part figure skating has played in his life. “Some people will be the best in the room in competition, but they’re not lifers,” says the four-time world champion. “They’re not going to be skating for fun at 65...

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Gertrude Kearns, celebrated Canadian war artist

See her works in Outside the Lines: Women Artists at War, a new exhibition at the Canadian War Museum. By Paul Gessell Generally, there have been two types of war artists. The old-school ones who painted during the two world wars tended to depict soldiers as relentlessly heroic. Then came the 1960s and the Vietnam War: Artists around the...

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