According to the Inside the CBC blog and the National Post, Toronto's favourite boyish-looking provocateur, Avi Lewis, is back on the airwaves with his newest show, Frontline: USA. The show promises to "strip away the spin and highlight real issues such as poverty, violence, race, health, and immigration" in America. Considering that Lewis is involved and that the show airs on Al Jazeera English, chances are that Frontline: USA won't be a Dobbsian exercise......

It was a record-breaking year at Hot Docs, as more than 68,000 people came to watch more than 200 screenings of 129 films. If those numbers aren't enough, here's another one for you: attendance was up a whopping 33 per cent from last year. This year the festival decided to be a bit more environmentally-friendly, and had audience members using their ticket stubs as ballots for the coveted Audience Award. The winner was announced Monday......

Not to Thunder Bay or anything, just up to York University. Art lovers can check out Governor General Award winning video artist Istvan Kantor at the Art Gallery of York University. Controversial is the word thrown around when describing Kantor’s work. His regularly uses blood in his work and has been kicked out and had a restraining order placed on him by the National Gallery of Canada. Interestingly his works are now in the National......

We like indie power couple Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis. We really do. But, like thongs and poorly developed film, they're over-exposed. Torontoist genuinely wants to see The Take, the duo's first foray into documentary, and a moving tale of Argentine workers. That said, having to listen to them on every CBC program last week, and see their smiling mugs on the telly ad nauseum left Torontoist a little Brand Naomi'ed out. But if you've......