Thomson was a ‘fearless cultural bureaucrat’
Governments funded the artists, they did not choose them. Under Shirley Thomson's watch, no prime minister would even think of criticizing a play they had not yet seen.
Even in death she loomed larger than life. Shirley Thomson's passing commanded front page news in the nation's capital. And that is as it should be.
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