Flamboyant Canadian billionaire and empty nester Ann Kaplan Mulholland and her husband, renowned plastic surgeon Dr. Steven Mulholland embarked on a colossal adventure two years ago. They relocated to England and bought a new home, the thousand-year-old Lympne castle in Kent, a wee fixer upper: 27K square feet, 27 buildings, and 139 acres. And as Mulholland discovered, it came with… View Post
Trying to be an ethical consumer in a capitalist system feels like playing a game where the rules are designed for you to lose. No matter how many brands you boycott, companies you cancel, or alternatives you seek, there’s always a new ethical dilemma lurking around the corner. And yet, despite the near impossibility of truly moral consumption under capitalism,… View Post
By Anne Brodie Tracie Laymon’s Bob Trevino Likes It is just the thing for a positive, warm feeling. Based on Laymon’s own experiences, we follow Lily Trevino (Barbie Ferreira), her father Bob Trevino (French Stewart), and her new friend Bob Trevino (John Leguizamo). Lily’s dealing with the trauma abandonment by her mother when she was little and, recently by her… View Post
English actor and comedian David Mitchell is new to me, but what a discovery! He’s crazy funny, quirky and physical in the BritBox Original Ludwig. Mitchell plays identical twins, John, a hermit singleton, a puzzle creator whose brain works in mysterious ways and James, an extrovert happily married to Lucy (Anna Maxwell Martin). One day James vanishes. Lucy must wrest… View Post
By Anne Brodie Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative journalist and host of the acclaimed podcasts Stolen and Missing & Murdered Connie Walker guest hosts a heartbreaking edition of CBC’s The Fifth Estate tonight. Walker follows a thirty-year-old case gone cold, the murder of Sonya Cywink of the Whitefish First Nation. Cywink’s sister Meggie launched her own investigation when it became clear that… View Post
Top – Sonya Cywink Bottom – Meggie Cywink and Connie Walker By Anne Brodie In 1994, 31-year old, pregnant Sonya Cywink from the Whitefish First Nation near Sudbury, was found murdered in a forest near London, Ontario. Thirty-one years later the case remains unsolved. Cywink’s sister Meggie has talken up the search for the truth by herself, in the face of… View Post