Lyla Miklos

Hamilton

Host, Centre Stage at CIOI-FM (Hamilton, ON)

Contributor at The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, ON)

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What does Mark Carney’s slimmed down cabinet signal to Canadians and the world?

3 weeks ago | thespec.com | Lyla Miklos

Mark Carney was sworn in as the 24th prime minister of Canada on March 14. His cabinet was sworn in that day, too. Down to 23 ministers from the previous 37, this cabinet was lean and mean so it could focus on the trade war with the U.S. No longer just an existential threat, Donald Trump’s America with its daily taunts of turning Canada into the 51st state is now an actual threat to our sovereignty.
Celebrating more than 20 years of pagan pride in Hamilton

Sep 5, 2024 | thespec.com | Lyla Miklos

Pagan Pride Day has been celebrated across North America since the early 1990s. Its name owes its origins to the two spirit and LGBTQIA-plus pride movement. As pagan practitioners often face stigma and discrimination, Pagan Pride Day is a time for them to come together to find acceptance and community.
You can go home again: returning to my birthplace of Iqaluit 30 years later

Aug 31, 2024 | thespec.com | Lyla Miklos

Iqaluit is the capital city of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Its name translates into “place of many fish,” which is symbolized in the city’s official flag and seal. It now has a population of more than 7,000. When I was born there (half a century ago), it had just been officially recognized as a village. It was still a part of the Northwest Territories and called Frobisher Bay. In the late 1960s my grandparents Dezso and Katalin Miklos founded the Frobisher Inn.
Amazon’s ‘Fallout’ a scathing critique of military industrial complex

Apr 27, 2024 | thespec.com | Lyla Miklos

Once again, the source material for a prestige television series is a post-apocalyptic themed video game. Last year it was HBO’s “The Last of Us.” This year it’s Amazon Prime’s “Fallout.” Already a Subscriber? Sign in The original 1997 video game “Fallout” takes place after a nuclear war between the United States and China.
Hamilton and Burlington named world tree cities

Mar 27, 2024 | thespec.com | Lyla Miklos

I was delighted when I heard the happy news that the cities of Hamilton and Burlington were both named Tree Cities of The World by the Arbor Day Foundation, a program of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. This designation was first given out to cities across the globe in 2019. Cities named to this list demonstrate leadership in the management of their urban trees. This is the second year in a row that Burlington and Hamilton have received this honour.
Who gets to be called a hero?

Nov 7, 2023 | thespec.com | Lyla Miklos

Filmmakers George Lucas (“Star Wars”) and James Cameron (“Terminator”) had a revealing conversation in the 2018 AMC-plus documentary series “James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction.”Cameron observed, “You did something very interesting with ‘Star Wars,’ if you think about it, the good guys are the rebels. They’re using asymmetric warfare against a highly organized empire. I think we call those guys terrorists today. We call them Mujahedin. We call them Al-Qaeda.” Already a Subscriber?
The quest for the truth and the importance of journalism

Oct 5, 2023 | thespec.com | Lyla Miklos

Growing up I had dreams of being an investigative reporter like Lois Lane from the “Superman” comics, exposing corruption and revealing hard truths. Enrolling in Mohawk College’s broadcast journalism program after graduating from high school was a logical next step toward that goal. Already a Subscriber? Sign in Mohawk College announced earlier this year they are suspending its journalism program because of the lack of jobs in the industry.
A queer love story for the ages from ‘The Last of Us’

Feb 25, 2023 | thespec.com | Lyla Miklos

When the promos for the new HBO series “The Last of Us” first came out I wasn’t too interested. Zombies. Pandemics. Post-Apocalyptic Horror. I’ll pass thanks. I was never a fan of “The Walking Dead” or other zombie related media that had previously entered the pop culture zeitgeist. While we still live with the ongoing impacts of COVID-19, mass entertainment depicting the destruction of our society due to a pandemic cuts far too close to the bone.