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Hilltops, The

Igal Hecht (Canada, Canadian Spectrum) Screenings: Sunday, May 1, 4:30 p.m. The ROM Theatre (100 Queen’s Park) Tuesday, May 3, 9:45 p.m. Cumberland 2 (159 Cumberland Street) The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that most dangerous of topics for filmmakers: the kind that makes you think your film is interesting because it’s about something people are interested [...]

Weekend Planner: March 5–6

This edition of Weekend Planner offers up some stellar options: catch screenings of a documentary about Palestine, watch robots fight or academics debate, meet up with the Boys in the Band, and celebrate David Suzuki's birthday with dinner and a movie.

TIFF’s Tel Aviv Tiff

In an earlier TIFF post, we joked that the film Five Hours From Paris won our award for the “worst summary we’ve ever seen from TIFF” with: “In a suburb of Tel Aviv, an Israeli cab driver who longs to fly and a Russian music teacher who is soon to board a plane find out [...]

Northern Stoplights

Photo of George Galloway at Stop the War, in London, on February 24, 2007, by davidChief. Incendiary British anti-war MP George Galloway was scheduled to speak at a Toronto Coalition to Stop the War event tonight. On March 20, though, he received a letter from Robert J. Orr, Immigration Officer for Canada in London, England, [...]

The People / United / Will Sometimes Be Defeated

CUPE Ontario’s university workers are now officially like the awkward kid no one wants to play with at recess. As we reported earlier, that branch of the union passed a motion a few days ago calling for an academic boycott “aimed at Ontario universities and any institutional connections pertaining to research that help the military [...]

I Am CUPE, Hear Me Roar

CUPE members taking part in a protest against Israeli military attacks on Gaza; photo by Medmoiselle T. In a startling and uncharacteristic move, CUPE Ontario has done something controversial. Even more unexpectedly, they’ve gone about it in controversial fashion. The segment of the union which represents university workers passed a motion this weekend, calling for [...]

Bringing It All Back Home

A mural by British artist Banksy appears on the Separation Wall in Palestine. Photo by walker cleavelands. 2009 kicked off with promise in the air, a tonic sense of the future around which Western civilization warmed itself. Despite a snowballing economic catastrophe unseen since the 1930s, the world staggered onward, still high from the incredible [...]

Jewish Protesters Stage Sit-In at Israeli Consulate

The Israeli consulate at Bloor and Avenue was briefly taken over by a group of women, Jewish protesters, earlier today. The group, which includes writer and activist Judy Rebick and local filmmaker B. H. Yael, was protesting the recent invasion of Gaza, as well as the Canadian government’s failure to condemn that military action. Their [...]