The vast majority of Canadians support tighter restrictions on international travel imposed by the federal government, a new poll suggests.
Eighty-six per cent of respondents agree with stricter measures that suspend flights to most sun destinations and require quarantining at a hotel at the passenger s expense upon arrival in Canada, according to an online survey by Léger and the Association for Canadian Studies.
The poll also found that 87 per cent of respondents think the government should go further by banning international travel until there are several consecutive days of reduced COVID-19 numbers.
The wariness of foreign trips stems in part from more transmissible and possibly more lethal variants of the virus emerging abroad as well as homegrown politicians jetting off to far-flung beaches during the holidays, says Léger executive vice-president Christian Bourque.
Cineplex curates Black History Month slate of films; partners with The Black Academy
by The Canadian Press
Last Updated Feb 1, 2021 at 1:14 pm EDT
TORONTO Theatre giant Cineplex is celebrating Black History Month by offering a curated collection of more than 100 films across Canada.
Titles including “Harriet” and “Selma” are available throughout the month on the Cineplex Store.
Select films will also screen in Cineplex theatres in markets where cinemas are permitted to operate.
The company will donate $1 from every transaction on the Cineplex Store and from in-theatre ticket sales of the select titles in February to The Black Academy.
Toronto-raised actor-brothers Shamier Anderson and Stephan James co-founded The Black Academy in early December as a permanent, year-round operation to showcase Black talent and combat discrimination and systemic racism.
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To paraphrase
Wonder Woman 1984villain/meme Maxwell Lord, “Life is bad . but it can get worse.” Thanks to a depressingly slow vaccine rollout, moviegoing isn’t likely to return to anything resembling normalcy until the summer, and maybe even longer. (I don’t mean to be defeatist, merely realistic.) So from now until then/whenever, what do restless, frustrated, desperate Canadian audiences need to know about 2021 moviegoing? Here are my best answers.
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NEWS OF THE WORLD: You can always rely on Tom Hanks to bring you something worthwhile. Here he’s working again with one of the best directors these days, Paul Greengrass (
Captain Phillips, the
Bourne movies) and with a special co-star: 12-year-old Helena Zengel, the German girl who was so brilliant in
System Crasher, which came around earlier this year. Her character was traumatized and unmanageable, and she won major awards. She performs distress again, as a girl who was captured and raised by Kiowa people, can’t speak English and only remembers a bit of the German she used to know. So she says very little in this film but conveys lots with looks, expressions and movement. Hanks gradually figures out how to communicate with her.