Learning, recognizing, being accountable and actively WORKING to stop your "socially acceptable" white supremacist tendencies and behaviours is critical to making lasting real change. #blacklivesmatter
Fiction writers in Canada are withdrawing from the 2024 Giller Prize.
Authors want Giller Foundation to cut ties with companies that support Israel's military. They're also expressing solidarity with those arrested for disrupting last year's ceremony
https://t.co/GM29Jq3dMc
I was proud to table a petition calling for the doubling of ODSP and OW rates in Ontario.
Last week, I heard from @Disability_WP at their Lobby Day. People with disabilities in Ontario are struggling to make ends meet. Enough is enough. It's time to raise the rates!
"As a Jewish infant under Nazi occupation...how could I not relate to the experience" of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation? @DrGaborMate, a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor asks.
Help is desperately needed for the Children of Gaza and the people of Rafah who are being moved to what are essentially internment camps of human neglect and suffering. Die in the desert or in your home. That is the choice given to Palestinians today. https://t.co/Mb3X7QgKTU
📣The CFC is pleased to announce their inaugural Hair and Makeup Training Initiative, in partnership with @cmucollege of Makeup Art & Design. This unique training program acknowledges the need for hair and makeup equity in the screen industry.
Read more: https://t.co/7GCQRorT1f
so proud of this student for calmly asking why she equates keffiyeh with terrorism. also glad CBC reported on this, it's happening everywhere
https://t.co/2GI2uLPHzW
i don’t know what the value of your relatively safe life is if you are not totally distraught by what we are being shown from gaza. i don’t understand what you live for at all… is it just to buy things? to try a restaurant you saw on tik tok?
ICYMI: 'Little Bird' a limited series by CFC alum @Podemskichick & produced by Lori Lozinski, earned a whopping 19 nominations at the 2024 Canadian Screen Awards (@thecdnacademy) 🙌 ⭐
nothing any politician in canada can say about “combatting” islamophobia means anything. it’s totally void of meaning unless they confront how much our government has sanctioned and promoted the ongoing violence against muslims.
it’s gonna be cool to watch another awards show where a bunch of films about human suffering and lessons we can learn from past horrors win awards and not have a single winner mention the tens of thousands of people who’ve been killed in gaza and are currently starving to death
Norman Jewison gave a lot to cinema. He even encouraged Hal Ashby to direct. When Spike Lee heard Jewison was going to direct MALCOLM X, he reached out to Jewison and basically begged him to step aside. Jewison listened and gave it to Lee. Rare.
Farewell Sweet Prince👑.
Thank U For One Of The
Greatest,Happiest,Most
Fun Experiences Of My Life.
Without U,I Would Not Have My Beautiful Golden Man.Norman U Made Moonstruck The GREAT FILM Ppl🩵.
Script,Actors,Etc,NEEDED U DEAR❤️
NORMAN JEWISON
LIVES ON THROUGH HIS WORK