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Words for those hard to describe situations


There are situations in life where words don’t seem to work. These situations seem to be indescribable and baffling. Language, specifically the English language, just doesn’t do situational justice. I am here to remedy that. Here are some stupid words that may help: Arsethsma - adjective: When someone's tone of voice is like a laboured whine; …

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Interview with Babak Anvari (Under the Shadow)


UNDER THE SHADOW, written and directed by Iranian born Babak Anvari, premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and it broke viewer's  minds, literally (an audience member actually screamed 'I can't handle this' during the show). The follow up to his British Academy of Film and Television Awards nominated short 2x2, Anvari wasted little time …

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CBC Poetry Prize


Some of the first serious writing I ever did was poetry. I was 15. I started writing poetry because who fucking cares. Poetry continued into my adulthood. Mostly when I was guiding and a bit when I was living in British Columbia. It was a quick and easy therapy that made me feel like I …

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Full of Hell


Annie Strom was 5'4 and full of hell. On the ice, off the ice, she walked like she was 6'10 and made out of mountains. This was one of the reasons she excelled at hockey and sucked at friends. This didn't bother her. She didn't care. Captain of the Regina Magical Horses hockey team of …

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Interview with GOT’s Sean Savage


    For Sean Savage, being a camera operator is more than just helping frame a shot. Savage, who shot the films The Last Kingdom, Elizabeth and is the ‘A’ camera operator on the dragon production team for Game of Thrones, sees himself more of a visual interpreter than just a camera operator. “I’m translating …

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Rheo makes media consumption easy


“The way we find media has changed,” says Alan Cannistraro, CEO of Rheo. “What technology has done of the past few year is it has really catered to the idea that if you know what you want then it really easy to find stuff. But if you don’t know what you want, then it really …

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Story Summit 2017: Ed Lantz


*This is the first in a series of stories focusing on a lovely little gathering in Banff called The Story Summit. I was invited there by the inventive people of AMPIA to cover the conference and I will be tweeting insights and photos from here, here, here, and here. Any questions or insights, email me …

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