By Sunny Verma, President & Founder of TutorBright A lingering question keeps coming up in conversations around the world, over dinner tables, in policy meetings, and everywhere in between: Why are our children not reaching their potential – especially when it comes to education? We speculate on the reasons, from social media to a changing curriculum, but often the missing… View Post
By Ashley Kwong, Creator of Memory & Company Let me introduce myself. My name is Ashley Kwong. I am the owner and creator of a new club in Markham, Ontario, for people living with memory loss. It’s called Memory & Company. I started on my journey of creating Memory & Company because I had worked in the memory care industry… View Post
It’s not just Natalie Portman’s astounding performance in Jackie that makes this fictional biopic so compelling – it’s the storytelling. Director Pablo Lorrain’s brutalist approach changes our idea of who Jacqueline Kennedy may have been. We follow her in the aftermath of JFK’s assassination more angered than sad, dominating the farewell ceremonies. She is portrayed as a force of nature… View Post
Cinematheque at TIFF Bell Lightbox Until Dec 23rd The late, great German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s contributions to film have been widely acknowledged. The cinematic universe he creates is ordinary and extraordinary, melodramatic and mundane, operatic and obtuse, cruel and loving, contradictory and rare. His films are treasures. They are peopled with troubled souls in German cities navigating the aftermath… View Post
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” — Leon C. Megginson This was me, almost seven years ago. An orange sized tumour had been removed from the mesenteric wall of my small intestine after 6 hours in the OR. At this… View Post
Jessica Chastain presents a new kind of feminine hero in Miss Sloane – or anti-hero depending on your point of view. She’s extraordinary and brilliant, a bruisingly cunning woman in a powerful position as an anti-gun lobbyist. She moves forward like a shark, never looking at the damage she’s caused just off to the side. Miss Sloane looks only forward,… View Post