Arts & Politics

By: Kindah Mardam Bey 

So we try and keep the worlds of arts and politics separate, like we do church and state, but sometimes the two inevitably intermingle and produce a blaze of fireworks.

A big ticket item this week came hot off the campaign trail when Stephen Harper gave the Liberals the golden egg vote for the arts when he stated that "I think when ordinary working people come home, turn on the TV and see a gala and all sorts of people at a rich gala all subsidized by the taxpayer, claiming their subsidies aren't high enough when they know they have actually gone up, I'm not sure that's something that resonates with ordinary people," he said. "Ordinary people understand we have to live within a budget."READ MORE