Category: In the News
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Time to Write Again!
My poor blog has been neglected for a few years. And, the last few years? Holy moly. How are you? If I were to summarize, do a “Reader’s Digest” version of the recent years it would look like this: 2018: Wrote short film script: The Rolling Pin 2019: Edited script and it received funding from…
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Québec…My Country, Mon Pays
My plans to write about the film “Québec, My Country, Mon Pays” today became heightened after the past weekend’s tragedy at a Québec City mosque. My heart goes out to the people who were practicing a peaceful prayer, their families, and the community, that includes us. I lived in Québec City. J’ai vecu a Québec.…
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Demain… Tomorrow… There will be one…
Hope. Commitment. Change. Health. Care. Movement. Not waiting for someone else to solve the problem. That’s what we need. What the whole world needs. Especially, right now when there seems to be small groups of people making decisions that put millions at jeopardy, world wide. The film “Demain” (Tomorrow) is an elixir, a well needed…
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Gardening… therapeutic art
My first garden was in the back yard of our Banff house in a little dark corner with black earth. My first plant, a strawberry plant. Our neighbours’ fence was high above, blocking my sun, but dripping gooseberries that I guiltily snuck from time to time. When my first strawberry emerged, albeit tiny, I was…
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French Films in.. Vancouver? Yup!
Parlez-vous le Francais? Speak French? No? Doesn’t matter!! Here in our own Vancouver, we are lucky to have French films being brought in by Visions Ouest Productions, Régis Painchaud and Lorraine Fortin, for the 23rd Rendez-Vous French Film Festival. Around 50 films (including shorts) from Québec and around the world will be presented, most with…
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A bridge back to the arts…
The last few posts have been distinctly more political and heated. I had felt a strong need to write about something that impassioned me. The state of a group of seniors’ situation in a place in which I’m deeply familiar. That story hasn’t ended. And, I will keep a strong eye on it until it…
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How deeply do we care…Action not just words…
Last Saturday night I watched a documentary called “What About Me?“. I scanned through comedies, dramas, and documentaries to find something that would soothe my despair over losing a friend to suicide last week. Imagining the incredibly bright light of Haigan Day in her final darkness alone sent myself stumbling blindly. “What About Me?” was…
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Why bother, they’re going to die…
Imagine: You’ve led a full life in a community where you paid your taxes. You’ve purchased over and over again in your community, spending your money at local businesses. You’ve had a family. Your own home. Your own house. Your own garden. A dog. Maybe a few. Some cats, despite that damn hair on the…
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Beyond Belief, Booze over Elders…
Yes, it’s true. The PEI government has chosen to construct a new liquor store in the community of Montague, Prince Edward Island, and postpone, once again, their 2009, 2015, 2016 promise of a brand new Riverview Manor, residence for seniors, to (we’ll see) 2017. BUT, the new liquor store will be ready for business in…
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Keep Going….
Today, the announcement for the new government liquor store in Montague was published by CBC in a positive light, gleefully optimistic about an increase in liquor sales next year, in their new building that will be constructed. A new building that will break ground as soon as ….. next week. Ready for an opening in…
