By Anne Brodie Writer-director Marie Clements' devastating Bones of Crows follows a Cree woman from childhood through her life and one hundred years of violent, hateful abuse of indigenous people in Canada. Set against historic government decisions that resulted in discrimination as policy in …
A Girl Finds Hope, Two Women Tempt Fate and the Rest is a Drag!
By Anne Brodie Young actor Catherine Clinch is Cáit, The Quiet Girl and she will break your heart. She is 9 years old and one of four girls born to a poor Irish family expecting a fifth child, victims of the unspoken Roman Catholic doctrinal ban on birth control. It's rural Ireland, 1981 the man …
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On Heroism and Our Ability to Change and Adapt, Thrills, Chills and Victories.
By Anne Brodie Canadian athlete - and hero - Andrea Constand, a towering figure in the #MeToo movement related to the drug rapes of dozens of women by TV icon Bill Cosby, has come forward with her story. Karen Wookey's heartbreaking documentary The Case Against Cosby lays out exactly what …
Canada’s Beloved Emily Hampshire Sequeys From Schitt’s Creek to an Attack on the North Sea Oil Rig She Commands.
Emily Hampshire made an astounding move from the small-town comedy of the global sensation Schitt's Creek to leading a dominantly male crew aboard an oil rig in Ireland's treacherous North Sea. The Rig stars Hampshire as Rose who runs a traditionally male dominion; she faces up to discrimination and …
Truth and Reconciliation, Sigourney Weaver & Kevin Kline, Sinéad, Baked Goods!
By Anne Brodie In honour of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, The History Channel presents the documentary, True Story, from Eagle Vision, a comprehensive study of Indigenous history in Canada, culture, and life before and after colonialism. Kaniehtiio Horn narrates this ambitious …