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2021 Spring Preview: Kids’ books This season’s books for children – from babies to teens – feature big-name authors and illustrators, anticipated debuts, and a fluffle of bunnies. PICTURE BOOKS The Rock from the Sky Jon Klassen Candlewick Press/Penguin Random House Canada, April Jon Klassen is back – not that he really went away. It’s just that it’s been four years since he released his last solo work, the final book in his bestselling Hat trilogy. ( This Is Not My Hat was the fir...

Posted: Jan 15, 2021 4:50 PM CT | Last Updated: January 19 Singer Rita Claire and husky Qimmiq are shown in a scene from the television show Anaanas Tent, filmed in Nunavut. A new Inuit-language television channel called Uvagut TV launches Monday. The name means Our TV in English. (Arvaaq Media Inc./The Canadian Press ) Inuit Canadians will soon have 24/7 access to Inuktitut-language television programming.   The Nunavut Independent Television Network (NITV) is launching a new channel — U...

The visual unconscious of The Searchers is mediated by its anti-hero protagonist Ethan Edwards, played by John Wayne. Ethan operates at the centre of the visual field of the film from beginning to end. The film opens with a shot of his sister-in-law, Martha (Dorothy Jordan), seeing him walking in from the desert, while gradually the rest of her family, including the dog, come out of the homestead to see him. With the wind blowing into the faces of Martha’s children, Ben (Robert Lyden) and Lu...

By Amber Dowling The Canadian film and television industry has been rocked following allegations that prominent filmmaker and “Inconvenient Indian” director Michelle Latimer is not Indigenous, as she has claimed to be for the past 20 years. The hurt and anger from the Indigenous filmmaking community that followed on social media has been palpable, drawing further attention to the need for systemic change as awards bodies and the funding arms Latimer has benefited from begin conversations ab...

>> greg: taking strange rights on planes? >> dana: do you remember tetherball? i liked it so much that my mom and dad put one in our backyard where we grew up. i loved foursquare. i also did love kickball. i was pretty fast. fast runner. >> emily: i can see that. lawrence, in dallas, what was the scene like for you? describe it. >> lawrence: we dominated in all sports. honestly, i think eliminating these activities is why the stress level for these kids are going up. they have no diversity. mayb...

Been reminding us all might matters most, the people who made it through and people who didnt and their stories. madeline williams is here with us, a senior graduating in two weks with a story to tell. young lady thank you for joining us here. i wish it were under different circumstances. we were talking about that earlier. you lost friends, three of them. >> yes. how are you dealing with this? you have your mom with you. but this is not something were set up to cope with easily. >> well i. >> h...

>> what was your motivation for doing this? >> free palestine. the u.s. government funds and in israel and killing innocent people. >> anything you can tell me about yourself. >> yeah, im about the age of 20 years old. i smoke pot. and i live in america. >> you smoke pot? >> every day. >> you might have hacked the director of the cia while you were high? >> probably. >> are you sophisticated hackers? >> i would kind of put us like in the middle maybe. were not like stupid, but were not really sm...

Sought in america because it confers privilege? >> it gives you a special status, but what does it take away from you. nplay at recess, who was king of the hill or fast runner or grades on the test. as kids we compote in college, you are sold that you are a special class. i was offered to live on the black hall. there was a hall that was for me so i could commune with me with people of the same pigment >> i was uncomfortable with being told i needed to be a certain group of people with skin colo...