My Film Festival picks for today give us an acting duel between a current and a future Pope, superb journalism trailing nationalist agitators in India, Inuit people trying to understand Canada and all ...

“Canada is back.” So said the new Liberal government when it took office – back to being a peace keeper nation. During the 2015 Federal election, many social justice advocates joined the campaign to ...

It’s mostly serious issues in the films I’m recommending at VIFF today and Friday. But there’s also a comic road trip, a thriller and some pure frivolity. Note also that down below I’ve listed more ...

Alexander von Hofmann's latest film Tinglewood is a spine chilling thriller and will screen at VIFF as part of the shorts series High School Stories/Teenage Hell. It is an engaging look at family ...

The Vancouver International Film Festival is well under way and, according to one source, doing better than last year, financially. I’ve seen it myself. I’ve been in several packed or even sold-out ...

Los Angeles journalist Linda Marsa’s latest book, "Fevered," takes you on a journey and lays out all the ways that our current business as usual carbon-intensive systems are bad for our health. Not ...

Broadway tour shows notwithstanding, you don’t need a fleet of 18-wheelers to deliver cutting edge musicals to Metro Vancouver. With its new staging of the late Vancouverite polymath Tom Cone’s ...

Team Canada Coach Alan Bates sent this report directly from Brazil on day 1 of the team's journey... Homeless Cup Team Canada Coach Alan Bates reports from Brazil. His letter follows:Hi Street Soccer ...

Remember The Tea Party? The Canadian rock band, which rose to fame during the mid-90s, is mulling over selling its website domain to the right-wing U.S. political movement of the same name. Band ...

Abe Chen, original creator/producer along with Locking Kuan, started the event five years ago and every year the stakes for the mingling battling of international superstars and local dancers ups the ...