Katie Boland, one of Canada’s most popular young actors, has a stunning sixty credits to her name. Boland has won the Birks Diamond Women In Film Award, was named Playback’s 2013 10 To Watch, and Best Emerging Actress by The Toronto Film Scene. In 2001, the Toronto International Film Festival called her one its Rising Stars. Most recently, Boland appears in Born to Be Blue,… View Post
Excerpted from Hot Thai Kitchen by Pailin ChongChitnant. Recipes copyright © 2016 Pailin ChongChitnant, Photography copyright © 2016 David Tam. Published by Appetite by Random House, a division of Random House of Canada Ltd., a Penguin Random House Company. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.
Spike Lee’s new film Chi-Raq addresses the scourge of gun violence in contemporary society. He adapted Aristophanes’ Lysistrata to the present day streets of Chicago where more people die from guns in a day than US military in Iraq. Teyonah Parris leads his all-star cast as Lysistrata. She is at her wits’ end over the non-stop violent deaths of men… View Post
∼ Written by Kate Gardiner, Genetic Counsellor at LifeLabs Prenatal testing is becoming an increasingly popular tool that more and more expectant parents are using to determine the health of their unborn baby. Kate Gardiner, a genetic counsellor at LifeLabs, debunks the myths of prenatal testing and provides valuable advice for soon-to-be parents on different options that are available. Myth… View Post
How She Travels ∼ by Kathy Buckworth One of the great pleasures of travel is of course the different food options that are available in different destinations. But for those traveling with food restrictions –such as allergies, gluten-free, vegetarian, vegan or religious boundaries – it requires some definite pre-planning to ensure a healthy diet can be maintained and medical safety is… View Post
Horror Rating 4/5 Starring John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Gallagher Jr. Written and directed by Dan Trachtenberg A single mailbox torn off its post towards the end of 10 Cloverfield Lane is the only obvious nod to Cloverfield the game changing 2008 horror apocalypse film about evading monsters in NYC. Thematically they are strongly united by the theme… View Post