After weeks of discussion between the Movie Theatre Association of Canada and the provincial government, the majority of theatres in Ontario reopened for the August long weekend. But how will theatres adjust to the realities of operating in a pandemic?
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She’s sarcastic, smart and probably the boldest South Asian protagonist ever found in a TV series. Meet Devi Vishwakumar, of the latest Netflix series ‘Never Have I Ever’.
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There is next to no public space in St James Town. The most densely populated community in all of Canada has no public land. So when Poonam Sharma and Community Matters wanted to create an…
View More Giving Voice Through Folk ArtLast week turned out to be an unplanned Asian cinema watching binge, watching four Asian films – three Chinese and one Korean. I love Asian films as some of them have action and special effects that…
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“There was a desire to be inclusive,” wrote Don Heider in the conclusion to his 2000 monograph White News: Why Local News Programs Don’t Cover People of Color, “but no way in which that desire…
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