While entrepreneurship can be exciting and incredibly fulfilling, it’s not always as glamorous as many people assume it to be. As a solo entrepreneur myself, I know that self-employment can be stressful and time-consuming. I have to take on most of the responsibilities of the business myself, as I don’t have an accounting team or administrative assistant to balance my… View Post
Molly Shannon has pretty much toiled under the radar in recent years, in small roles and guest appearances, but she jets back to relevance in Madeleine Olnek’s excellent biopic Wild Nights with Emily. Shannon lowers the registers on her comic rawness to deliver a warm, funny, engaging, even sprightly performance as poet Emily Dickinson. Shannon plays her, not as the reclusive… View Post
Patricia Rozema’s ‘Mouthpiece’ follows a thirty-year-old Toronto woman for a short time, from the death of her mother to the funeral and eulogy. Cassandra’s in a tough place, trying to reconcile a lifetime with her mother and feel her feelings while organising the funeral and reception. It’s the universal story of primal loss, given bold new life through a unique… View Post
Taron Egerton vigorously assumes the persona of young Elton John in the musical fantasy Rocketman. which is markedly different from straight ahead Bohemian Rhapsody. Dexter Fletcher’s supple musical fantasy more akin to a stage play than biopic uses set pieces that flow into one another, tightly and brilliantly episodic, skipping from one eye-popping paragraph to the next. Fletcher’s mastery of its unique movement is breathtaking… View Post
Now open at 356 College St, LeTao is a Japanese confectionery that just marked their 20th anniversary this year. LeTao can be found in every major Asia city (Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, China) and now, the first location outside of Asia can be found in downtown Toronto – located at Bathurst and College, just outside Kensington (Augusta… View Post
Linda Villanova is driven to manage her rare and incurable disease – Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC) – that is four times more prevalent in women and is the number one reason for liver transplants among women in Canada. She is an advocate for other women to learn about the disease, and to remind women that they can live well with PBC…. View Post