CTV fires Rachel Gilmore and has once again demonstrated whose voices carry weight in their newsroom. Spoiler, it’s not those of dedicated women journalists, and it’s not the Canadian public. In 2022, they unceremoniously dismissed Lisa LaFlamme, a respected, award-winning journalist, in a move that smacked of ageism and sexism. Lisa’s supposed transgression? Embracing her natural grey hair. The public’s… View Post
Someone I’ve been thinking about a lot these past few days is my grandmother. Not because we were particularly close — in fact, I barely knew her, growing up in another province — but because in moments like this, it feels natural to reach back. To draw a line between ourselves and the generations before us who endured uncertain, transformative… View Post
By Anne Brodie Misericordia (“compassion or empathy”) is an unsettling, unobvious thriller, a quiet but gale force knockout that may leave viewers gasping. Alain Guiraudie’s adaptation of the novel Stranger By The Lake, the French, Spanish and Portuguese co-pro is extraordinary – clever, sneaky and perplexing. Its intricate psychological portrait of a close-knit, claustrophobic village is frequently dark, visually; you… View Post
More than anything, I just want politics to be boring again. I long for headlines so dull they barely register. “Minister Attends Meeting, Leaves On Time” is the dream. I want a government so functionally beige that I forget who’s in charge, because everything is just…working. No daily drama. No emergency press conferences interrupting my funny dog videos on Tiktok…. View Post
I’ve long felt that Parks Canada matter, but this morning I read an article in the National Observer that Parks Canada is facing a massive $450 million in cuts and lapsed funding over the next two years. It made my stomach drop. I may be especially sensitive about this subject right now because I’ve been anxiously watching the damage Trump… View Post
Is Danielle Smith a traitor? That question exploded across social media after her recent interview with Breitbart — yes, that Breitbart, part of Steve Bannon’s cartoonishly villainous empire. And with it came the T-word: treason. Treason feels like such an “old-timey” word though, doesn’t it? Like we half-expect someone in revolutionary garb to march a traitor up to a wooden… View Post