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I had such a blast watching Tatiana Maslany in Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, and talking to her about the show, and the last 10 years since her Emmy win, and Mark Carney talking about both sides of his mouth while sending weapons abroad. cbc.ca/arts/maximum-pleasure…
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Great reporting by Eli on what a ripoff FIFA is for Toronto.
Jun 13
The FIFA World Cup - who wins when host counties spend billions? youtu.be/RHwr7Wo5ukw?si=4aub…
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The angle we didn't see in the official FIFA broadcast. Elyanna and Jessie Reyez throwing it down with the keffiyehs during the opening ceremony in Toronto.
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Palestine and the Keffiyeh at the #FIFAWorldCup 🇵🇸
#PHOTOS: Palestinian-Chilean singer-songwriter Elyanna and Moroccan-Canadian star Nora Fatehi were among the headlining acts as #Canada staged an historic opening ceremony for the 2026 @FIFAWorldCup on Friday arab.news/wmw2t
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MAXIMUM PLEASURE GUARANTEED (Apple ): Some goofy plot holes, but very entertaining. Copy-editors are an unused fictional resource. Who's a better detective than a good copy-editor?
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Maybe the best film I caught at Cannes.
Jun 9
You are cordially invited to “the most thrilling party of the year.”
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM. Conceived and filmed by genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves. Directed by David Greaves. In select theaters October 16.
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once again, me and da boys
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Well, this makes Canada spineless in the face of US Big Tech: “Two government sources said Ottawa is now preparing to ask CRTC to scrap entirely its initial 2024 ruling forcing foreign streamers to pay 5 per cent of their Canadian revenues into Canada’s cultural industries.”
Jun 8
Minister to tell CRTC to scrap demand for foreign streamers to fund local news, niche broadcasters theglobeandmail.com/politics…
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Jun 6
Israeli soldiers shot a seven-month-old baby in the head in the West Bank yesterday.
The same bullet that killed the baby also struck his mother. The father, a lecturer at Bethlehem University, was also wounded.
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She is one of the best actresses to come out of Canada but doesn’t get her due. The country curves her
Tatiana Maslany speaks out for Palestine while promoting her Apple TV show Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed
“There is no ceasefire in Gaza. Israel is continuing to bombard it. The US & Canada & the UK are all complicit. We have to keep remembering Palestine.”
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The best thing you can do when putting together a low budget film is consider what you *actually* need to pull off your vision. Film is inherently built on needless excess. Write for your budget instead of creating unethical working conditions.
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Yesterday on @YourMorning, quick takes on the Backrooms phenom, the meager attempt at making embarrassment fun in Masters of the Universe, what Scary Movie still has left to say today and the shallow charms of Power Ballad. Watch on Crave at the 1:21 mark. crave.ca/en/play/ctv-your-mo…
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Jun 5
Sean is 100% correct here BUT i would argue that Netflix's film strategy, though confused budgetarily, is primarily about pursuing a very Silicon Valley-esque approach to killing legacy competitors
you offer subscribers a facsimile of the old thing so they stop using it
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An award winning Canadian actor's new series has many people paying attention. Our pop culture columnist @JustSayRad weighs in on Tatiana Maslany and Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed. cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-8…
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Reviewed Scary Movie and pondered what this franchise has to say in a post-Get Out world. theglobeandmail.com/culture/…
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Also, reviewed Power Ballad. theglobeandmail.com/culture/…
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Two days ago, Derfel reported that Moss was leaving his position because of antisemitism, citing anonymous sources.
Now, Moss says he’s leaving because he was offered a new job.
He acknowledges concerns about AS, but says decision “had nothing to do with making a statement”
1) BREAKING: Here's an eloquent letter to the editor by Dr. Emmanuel Moss explaining his reasons for leaving Montreal. He laments that “the trajectory of healthcare in Quebec is concerning,” and “just as real is the rise of antisemitism in Montreal.”
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“We’re concerned the federal government has sold out Canadian culture in favour of big US tech interests. …The question we must ask is should US streamers, who’ve made tens of billions from Canadians, also be required to invest in Canadians telling Canadian stories?” — @The_CMPA
Jun 3
Looks like Ottawa just capitulated to U.S. streamers over Online Streaming Act: “At a time when Canadians face cost-of-living pressure, now is not the time to make culture and entertainment more expensive.” Essentially: Canadian government lost its spine. canada.ca/en/canadian-herita…
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It was a pleasure to follow the brilliant Canadian filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz over the past few weeks as she prepped for one very big Cannes pitch. theglobeandmail.com/culture/…
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The press room at the 2026 Canadian Screen Awards reportedly doubled in size this year, a change film critic Rad Simonpillai attributes to the media interest surrounding Hudson Williams.
“The doubled-size press room has everything to do with Hudson Williams.”
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Joined @elamin88 to dig into the CSAs, as a celebration for this moment in Canadian film and TV, and encouragement for Matt Johnson's edgelord humour.
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