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  • Women Talking: Sarah Polley and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

    In Women Talking, Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Miriam Toews’s novel, Mennonite women gather in a hayloft and discuss the horrific and violent sexual assaults committed...
    Sarah Polley and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers discuss Women Talking and its themes of justice, reconciliation and forgiveness
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  • Brother brings Scarborough to the world

    Samuel Engelking Brother, Toronto’s answer to movies like Boyz N The Hood and Moonlight, opens with two siblings daring to climb a hydro tower. It’s...
    Brother stars Kiana Madeira and Lamar Johnson will be bringing their Scarborough story to TIFF
    Movies & TVNews & FeaturesTIFF 2022
  • Canada’s Rising Screen Stars 2022

    Cooper & O'Hara and Samuel Engelking We can’t keep up with Canada’s Rising Screen Stars. They’re everywhere. Halifax’s Ben Proudfoot just won an Oscar. Domee...
    Canada's Rising Screen Stars 2022 collage
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  • Domee Shi’s Pixar love letter to Toronto

    TURNING RED directed by Domee Shi, written by Shi and Julia Cho, with the voices of Rosalie Chiang, Sandra Oh, Ava Morse, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and...
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  • The sound of Toronto in 2022: 20 artists to watch

    Samuel Engelking Toronto's music scene is awakening from its slumber. After a long Omicron nap, venues are cautiously reopening, tours are getting rescheduled and albums...
    Savannah Ré
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  • The Porter gives Black Canadian history a new look

    Nick Lachance THE PORTER premiering Monday (February 21) at 9 pm on CBC TV and streaming on CBC Gem. New episodes weekly through April 11....
    Actors Ronnie Rowe and Mouna Traoré stars of the CBC drama The Porter discuss their new look at Black Canadian history.
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  • Love, sex, dating and relationships in the time of COVID-19

    Haley McGee met the love of her life during the first months of lockdown. In February 2020, the Canadian-born and now UK-based playwright and actor...
    LifestyleLove and Sex
  • #FreedomConvoy2022 and Canada’s descent into Trumpism

    The #FreedomConvoy2022 - or the #FluTruxKlan, take your pick - rolled into Ottawa this past weekend. Some of its remnants are still there. They're refusing...
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  • Op-ed: Our Turks and Caicos vacation became a COVID quarantine story

    My family of four is in quarantine at the Beaches resort in Turks and Caicos, unable to return to Canada from a very extended vacation...
    A child in quarantine in Beaches Turks and Caicos after catching COVID
    Lifestyle
  • Toronto workers demand more than the bare minimum

    Years after they fought for it and won, workers in Ontario are finally getting the $15 minimum wage they were promised. But they're not stopping...
    Nadira Begum of Workers' Action Centre in Regent Park, where the Justice for Workers campaign is "very famous."
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  • How a community of chefs is reinventing West African food in Toronto

    Victor Ugwueke wants people in Toronto to try the food he grew up eating in Nigeria.  Working with food has always been a part of...
    Victor Ugwueke of Afrobeat Kitchen does his take on popular West African food, like Jollof rice, egusi and fried plantain.
    FoodFood & Drink
  • Andrew Phung’s terrific Run

    RUN THE BURBS created by Andrew Phung and Scott Townend, with Phung, Rakhee Morzaria, Zoriah Wong, Roman Pesino, Candy Palmater, Julie Nolke, Jonathan Langdon, Ali...
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  • Omicron is our second shot at COVID redemption

    I keep waiting for aliens from another galaxy to swoop down on the planet and save us from this wretched pandemic. Surprise! I was sure...
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  • 2021’s best movies: Yasmine Mathurin finds healing in One Of Ours

    Yasmine Mathurin didn’t consider herself a filmmaker when she started making One Of Ours. She began the five-year journey to tell a story that felt...
    One Of Ours film director Yasmine Mathurin lays back at the Hot Docs theatre
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  • Toronto’s best music 2021: Luna Li’s unexpected path to breakout success

    Luna Li didn’t expect her music to take off while she was sitting at home.  Hannah Bussiere Kim, the mid-20s Toronto singer/songwriter behind the spritely...
    Luna Li
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