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'What We Dreamed of Then' Finds Big Emotions in Small, Familiar Places
Shot in Saint John, this New Brunswick/Nova Scotia co-production explores how an ordinary father slips through the cracks of a system not built to catch…
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
'You’re Better Than Anyone Down Here'
What Canadian Olympians and comedy gods have to teach us about going big from home
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
Affirmation Across the Generations
'Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery' by Canadian filmmaker Ally Pankiw is a rallying call for change inspired by Sarah McLachlan and her successful…
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
Review: Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband)
TIFF's 2025 Best Canadian Feature award-winner from acclaimed Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk returns with a film about promises, love and northern…
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
Review: You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution, Spread Love & Overalls, and Created a Community That…
Nick Davis spins an affectionate story about a group of friends who changed the comedy world
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
Review: Sk+te'kmujue'katik (In the Place of Ghosts)
L’nu (Mik’maw) filmmaker Bretten Hannam confronts the spiritual scars we carry in haunting new film
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
Peace, Love & Understanding Among the Stars
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is one of the biggest festivals in the world, and still manages to feel like an intimate celebration of…
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
The Best of New Brunswick Books
Your summer reading list awaits with fiction, non-fiction, poetry and young readers honourees from the 10th annual New Brunswick Book Awards
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
New TV series Revival comes alive in New Brunswick's deep, dark woods
The rural noir supernatural mystery pays homage to its graphic novel roots with a mix of humour, heart and horror that plays out on the back roads of…
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
Fashionably Late... C'mon & Watch Rachel McAdams
Elbows Up with a Wink and a Smile from A True Canadian Charmer
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
Slammingly Simple Atlantic Salmon
Salt, pepper, capers and dill highlight the great taste of this New Brunswick staple
 • Michael Hawkins
Fashionably Late...c'mon & meet Paul Gross
My nominee for Can Con Captain Canada for his extensive body of work exploring Canadian values, both past and present
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
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