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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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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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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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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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“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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*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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Kerry Diotte is my Minister of Parliament (MP). He is my representative in Ottawa. He is the person I go to in hopes of having a national voice to air my opinions on the state of the country in which I live. Recently, my MP attended and spoke at a rally organized by an alt-right website. …
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I was once told that trying to explain canoe trip to people was like trying to cut vegetables with a screwdriver. Here is my attempt. Yesterday sucked. And it was awesome. I had been paddling on the North Saskatchewan River for three days, each day an 8 hour paddle. I had put in at Drayton …
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In a moment of late night pregnant online shopping/nesting/love my opulent wife bought me a DNA test from the groovy people at 23andMe. I spit in a vile. I mailed it away. I waited. Subplot: I'm adopted. My parents never hid this from me. I've written about it in several places. HERE and HERE (page 8) for example. …
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I performed this bit for Booty Goose's Weird Al Karaoke. It was a super fun night. As the title says, it is sung to the tune of 'Take it Easy' by the Eagles. It is called 'Aroused by Sneezes' (karaoke track found at the bottom): Well, I'm running down the road tryin' to loosen my …
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