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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 first book to receive both the Caldecott and the Kate Greenaway medals.) Since then, he’s only done c...

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 Anaana's 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 — Uvagut TV — starting first thing on Monday, at 12:01 a.m. It will be available nationally to S...

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 Lucy (Pippa Scott), it’s almost as if seeing Ethan has physical effects. Between the film’s end an...

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 about where to go next. In an investigative piece published on Dec. 17, CBC News revealed Kitigan Zibi...

>> 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. maybe you fall down and then scratch your name but you get back up and you go. right now everybody wants...