Harps from Howl – Monday Music Pick: Harp Duet
Sarah Pagé Howl! performance by howlarts Celebrated harp player Sarah Pagé performs a harp duet set with harpist Robin Best. Pagé has performed as a soloist with both the McGill…
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Jesus freaks, jew-haters & Guinea pig savers – Friday Film Pick: David Modell – A Passion for Faith, Death and Freedom
Christian born agains, radical animal rights activists and neo nazis - sound like the USA? Nope, it's the land of lovely cups o' tea, Great Britain.
The beauty and agony of home – A conversation with God’s Lake Narrows artist Kevin Lee Burton
Kevin Lee Burton talks about his new interactive web project, the politics of storytelling, community and belonging.
Racist bottled water adverts pulled – Boycott against Quebec company Eska continues
Quebec bottled water company Eska has found out the hard way that racist advertising doesn’t sell. After one week of a small but scrappy boycott campaign, the company has decided…
No asylum in progressive Denmark – Friday Film Pick: Denied
A short 2009 documentary by Aage Rais-Nordentoft about the Iraqi asylum seekers who sought refuge in Brorson’s church, Copenhagen, to avoid being deported to Iraq – but were ultimately forcefully…
Toronto theatre fest gets funding pulled – A conversation with Artistic Producer Michael Rubenfeld
Toronto’s indie theatre festival SummerWorks has recently reported that core funding from Heritage Canada has been pulled at the last minute. Given the ire the festival drew from the government…
Cancel your concerts in Israel – Friday Film Pick: Gaza Island
A musical parody drawing attention to Gaza, riffing on Gilligan's Island.
Paying for It – prostitution minus gender – A review of the new comics memoir by Chester Brown
A new comics-memoir from the author who brought us Louis Riel looks at the benefits of paying for sex.
A Public Service Announcement – From all us cyclists to all the law-makers and police
bike lanes from Casey Neistat on Vimeo.
Cultivating Canada – New book looks at reconciliation by way of cultural diversity
A new book about reconciliation and cultural diversity in Canada is FREE for your summer reading list.
Montreal group takes over ad space – Artung Collective replaces ads with art all over city
Art takes over ads in Montreal and the result is audacious.
A pioneer of political poetry and song – Gil Scott Heron (1949 – 2011) RIP
The world lost one of the pioneers of political poetry, rap and song yesterday. Gil Scott Heron passed away at the age of 62. He will be missed but his…
Non-violent solutions in Palestine/Israel – Friday Film Pick: Budrus
One of the best political films of 2010 has recently been released on DVD. If you didn’t catch Budrus in select indy theatres, at activist events or at the many…
A film festival grows up – Hot Docs wrestles with the politics and popularity of documentary
Dissecting the huge sprawling beast that is the Hot Docs film festival.
Help make this documentary! – Friday Film Pick: The Secret Trial 5
A new crowdfunded documentary looks at Canada's security certificates and asks you to get involved.
Looking back at Toronto’s G20 – Friday Film Pick: Into the Fire
Finally, a decent analysis of one of Canada's darkest days - last summer's G20 protests and police repression explored in Into the Fire.
Courage, candour and inspiration – A review of The Interrupters
The new Steve James documentary is courageous and beautiful social cinema.
The activist-terrorist complex – A Review of Better this World
A new documentary charts the courageous and tragic course of two activist's lives, now charged under anti-terrorism laws.
The sordid tale of the Trump golf course – A Review of You’ve Been Trumped
A new documentary takes aim at Donald Trump's Scottish golf course adventure.