By Anne Brodie The Canadian Reads 2015 book Ru, the dramatic true story of Kim Thúy whose family fled Vietnam for Canada, endured a nerve-shattering journey and adjustment to a strange culture has been adapted for the big screen. They were the so-called "boat people" fleeing a murderous regime. …
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By Anne Brodie But first, lately, I've become obsessed with the late Diana Vreeland, iconoclast and longtime editor of Harper's Bazaar and later Vogue, who then turned the staid Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on its head. Prime Video has the 2011 doc Diana Vreeland: The Eye …
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A Black Panther Saga, the Return of a YA Dynamo, CBC Launches Your Faves’ New Seasons, Comedy Dada …and Cake!
Ann Pornel and Alan Shane Lewis, Hosts of The Great Canadian Baking Show Season 4 By Anne Brodie Shaka King's Judas and the Black Messiah an intense fact-based chapter in the life of the Black Panther is important. Party Chairman Fred Hampton was less famous than, say, Eldridge Cleaver, Angela …