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It’s Only the End of the World has just been named Canada’s official entry for the Best Foreign Language Academy Award! The latest film from Canada’s youngest auteur, Xavier Dolan also won two prizes at Cannes and its finally opening in theatres. Dolan’s emotionally rigorous study of a young man …
Continue Reading about This Weeks Movies – An International Feast! | Reviews by Anne Brodie
Ten days of screenings, special public events, master classes, question and answer sessions, meet-and-greets, red carpets, parties, press conferences, junkets, the almighty barbeque and people watching have come to a close. One thing remains for #TIFF16 - the presentation of the awards! TIFF’s Piers …
With 75% of Canadian women being a size eight and up, it is now more than ever that the media landscape needs curvy women on the scene. Body acceptance and fat shaming have been all over the news in 2016, with the extremely thin, Selena Gomez, being called ‘fat’ in photos taken while on vacation and …
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Maudie (Dir. Aisling Walsh) Nova Scotia primitive artists Maud Lewis’ was born “crooked” and in some ways it shaped her destiny. She was treated like an outcast in her small village and a slave by her aunt who kept her against her will, but didn’t want her. Maud was fiercely independent and had a …
Continue Reading about TIFF Takeways for the Future! | by Anne Brodie
The War on Drugs must end. Its fundamental objective has been stymied: suppression of the drug trade. To the contrary, many aspects of that trade have flourished. A worldwide illegal market, dominated by gangsters, abounds, with only sporadic and limited interference by national and international …
Continue Reading about Legalize and Regulate Drugs – and Face Substance Problems, by Bill Bogart
