In the wake of last week’s building collapse, the challenges and exploitation of offshore garment manufacturing has been harshly and unavoidably brought into the Canadian market conversation. Loblaw’s low-price label, “Joe Fresh” is being named amongst the lengthy list of retailers supplied from the condemned building that has killed (at time of writing) up to […]
History is full of powerful figures, but the lives and impacts of the ordinary people around them is often over looked. This is not the case in Glossolalia, a collection of poems from Marita Dachsel. Dachsel transports her audience back in time to the 1800’s, to visit the rise of Mormonism and polygamy during the […]
Written and directed by, and based on Benjamín Ávila’s infancy growing up in a family of political activists, Clandestine Childhood takes place at the tail-end of 1979. Juan (alias Ernesto Estrada) and his mother Cristina (alias Charo), father Horacio (alias Daniel), Uncle Beto, and baby sister Vicky have returned to Argentina under fake names after […]
If it’s possible to describe Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami’s style of shooting in one word, then careful comes to mind. There’s elegance in his ability to capture the wholeness of moments, and because he resists quick cuts in favour of long drawn out and exquisitely framed shots, we’re presented with something that at first we […]
Maps & Atlases is a band that debuted as a schizophrenic math-rock group, but has slowly been trying to marry their tapping guitars with the melodic structures of folk songs. Their 2010 album Perch Patchwork was an almost perfect combination of hyperactive technical performance and organic songs. Their latest album Beware and Be Grateful follows […]
In the wake of last week’s building collapse, the challenges and exploitation of offshore garment manufacturing has been harshly and unavoidably brought into the Canadian market conversation. Loblaw’s low-price label, “Joe Fresh” is being named amongst the lengthy list of retailers supplied from the condemned building that has killed (at time of writing) up to […] 