By Anne Brodie This week’s spirits raiser is HBO Crave‘s series Julia, charting Julia Child’s rise from Cambridge, Mass. cookbook author to local public television star to worldwide celebrity, and today, abiding adoration. British actor Sara Lancashire nails it as the “towering” high-spirited chef with that distinctive twittering voice, whose simplification of fine French cuisine for American cooks launched a… View Post
By Kadie Ward, Commissioner and CAO, Ontario Pay Equity Commission Together we have been exploring women’s worth and what that means in different contexts, and most importantly, how we value women’s worth impacts our personal economic security and the broader economy. We began this series talking about the clustering of women in certain sectors in the workforce and how those… View Post
Fans of Farmhouse Facelift feeling good as Season 2 lands. HGTV Canada’s renovation reality series stars siblings Carolyn Wilbrink and Billy Pearson – they look under the floorboards, behind the walls with their spirit of design, redesign, and renewal and nail it every time. Always upbeat and never fussy, the series is a heartwarmer as delighted country folk revel in… View Post
Tiger trainer and showman Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage aka Joe Exotic is currently serving a long stretch in prison on a murder-for-hire case involving targeting animal welfare activist Carole Baskin and animal cruelty at his exotic animal theme park in Oklahoma. Both were featured in a recent Netflix documentary, now re-examined in the series dramatisation Joe vs Carole with Kyle MacLachlan… View Post
Have you heard of this saying “elevation requires separation”? It carries a different meaning for many. In today’s article, we want to discuss separation from old habits, from our old selves and lives. Certainly it’s not without challenges but entirely necessary to avoid self-sabotage. As you journey with us over the next 11 months on What She Said Radio Talk… View Post
By Anne Brodie Wildhood is a poignant, bittersweet awakening story of Link, a Mi’kmaw teenager who escapes severe abuse at home and hits the road with his little brother Travis. Writer/director/producer Bretten Hannam’s Two-Spirit odyssey filmed in English and Mi’kmaw starring Phillip Lewitski, Avery Winters Anthony, and Michael Greyeyes details Link’s issues of feeling unloved and unsafe, being shamed for… View Post