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The budding career of indie folk singer/songwriter Leith Ross took a detour the day after their first show as a featured performer when the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic halted touring and live shows.

Also for beer drinkers who love the craft brews over the big brands.

Also: An animated feature from Quebec, a tough critique of China, and a rehab scam.

Also a couple of Canadian films: LGBTQ fears or religion.

Also: A poignant film about surviving a marriage breakdown.

Also: Two more DOXA films (one of them Canadian), and a pair of amusing comedies.

We listen. We watch. We remember.

“I could have been that missing woman — I would have been just another missing woman in a camp, or just another young Indigenous girl beat up by her boyfriend.” Instead, she decided to fight back. 

“Will aunty die from the virus?” Andrea Landry's three-year-old daughter asked her one morning while they were playing quietly on the floor. Landry recognized her daughter's fear, and she recognized her own. She knew this pandemic was an invitation to feel complicated emotions, but also a time to look to traditional knowledge systems, to survive in the same way as her ancestors did.

Disney wildlife times two, a blast at American politics and a traumatic teen drama Also a couple of small but amiable comedies, one of them Canadian

Some modest recommendations and stay for the last one, an alarm about what has happened to the internet.

October 24 – November 24, 2019 in Vancouver

You can take out almost anything from libraries these days, but this one requires a leash.

Canadians cheered Bianca Andreescu at viewing parties, sports bars and even at the Toronto International Film Festival as she made sports history on Saturday, September 7, 2019.

The Saulteau and West Moberly First Nations have been working to bring back the Klinse Za caribou herd from the brink of extinction. Five years after they started a maternal pen for pregnant mothers to raise their calves in a protected area, the mountain herd has gone from 16 animals to nearly 100. Caribou guardian Julian Napoleon said his people share the herd's story of strength and survival .