Posts from — May 2008

VANCOUVER – As a horrified class of teens looks on, a former Indo-Canadian gang member pulls up his shirt and runs his fingers across an ugly, jagged scar running from his belly button to his shoulder.

A new documentary that takes a wide-ranging look at steroid abuse suggests an American culture of winning at all costs is at odds with its public condemnation of the performance-enhancing drugs.

In a few days, Michael Willcock’s travel companions could either be shot, arrested, or sent to a concentration camp near the India/Tibet border.

Eddie Murphy is planning a return to the film franchise that launched his big-screen career – Beverly Hills Cop.

Only a handful of MPs and senators showed up for a special pre-release screening of a film driving the controversy over a Conservative bill that would deny tax credits to Canadian movies and TV shows that the government deems offensive.

OTTAWA – The Tory staffer who was axed Tuesday for using her boss’ name to try to secure an extra ticket to a controversial Canadian film walked into the Ottawa screening last night with her head held high.

Toronto, May 30 : Toronto will add yet another film festival to its name this year when it holds the world’s first Breast Fest Film Festival in November in support of breast cancer therapies.

A controversial new film has become the talk of Parliament Hill. Critics of the movie say it’s nothing more than pornography and it highlights what’s wrong with public funding of Canadian films.

Toronto will host a movie event billed as the world’s first-ever film festival dedicated to breast cancer awareness, a Canadian charity said.

There will be a few music components to the Canadian Film Centre’s 14th annual Worldwide Short Film Festival taking place in Toronto from June 10 to 15.

This city is awash with books, photo exhibits, televised debates, documentaries and a new film all analyzing the legacy of the massive student-worker demonstrations that paralyzed France 40 years ago this month.

This city is awash with books, photo exhibits, televised debates, documentaries and a new film all analyzing the legacy of the massive student-worker demonstrations that paralyzed France 40 years ago this month.

Toronto will host a movie event billed as the world’s first-ever film festival dedicated to breast cancer awareness, a Canadian charity said.

Canadian director Bruce McDonald chose the Junction as the location for his forthcoming horror flick Pontypool not only for the abandoned church in which his film shoot is set up, but also because the…

It might as well have been Celine Dion walking into the Coffee Tree at Bloor and Jane Streets Tuesday afternoon. The resemblance is striking. Both the French Canadian pop phenomenon and actor, si…

TORONTO (Reuters Life!) – Toronto will host what is being billed as the world’s first-ever film festival dedicated to breast cancer awareness, a Canadian charity said.

Toronto will host what is being billed as the world’s first-ever film festival dedicated to breast cancer awareness, a Canadian charity said.

A new film festival is being launched to focus on movies about breast cancer and breast health.

Updated: Thu May. 29 2008 8:31:19 AM The Canadian Press

Two Canadian “Sex and the City” fans paid $16,000 to be in New York City to attend the film’s premiere – then got turned away.

Film career also keeping Canadian actor busy

TORONTO – A new film festival is being launched to focus on movies about breast cancer and breast health.

A group that supports young people affected by breast cancer is planning a new Toronto film festival dedicated to films about the disease.

BINGHAM FARMS, Mich., May 28, 2008 — Fashion cues from Paris, Milan and New York, by way of the auto industry, are debuting in Bingham Farms, Mich., with the opening this month of Canadian General-Tower’s new Innovation Studio.

A provocative movie about the sex lives of young people is too hot for some Conservatives to handle – and a parliamentary staffer has been fired for ordering tickets to a special screening. Tory MPs are denying they ever planned to watch the film, often called YPF, [...]