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Dec 30, 2024 | 
povmagazine.com | Matthew Hays
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
cultmtl.com | Taylor C. Noakes |Cult MTL |Matthew Hays
McGill has always been on the wrong side of historyAre major institutions so terrified of being perceived as critical of Israel — or worse, of promoting peace — that they’re literally digging up trees? McGill did just that, removing a white pine sapling — a symbol of Indigenous people depicted on Montreal’s flag — planted in the name of peace.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
cultmtl.com | Matthew Hays |Cult MTL |Toula Drimonis
My older brother Pete and I were having a chat on the phone one weekend a few years ago. “I’m looking for ideas for documentaries,” he told me. “And I want to tell local stories.”I had been working on the script for a graphic novel about working in a Le Chateau clothing store in West Edmonton Mall, where I’d worked briefly in the 1980s. It’s called The Le Château Diaries, I said, as it seemed a rite of passage for queer youth to work at Le Château when I was growing up in Alberta.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
cultmtl.com | Matthew Hays
“Working on Flashback, a documentary about an Edmonton queer club, made me rethink my own history.” Marie Farsi’s adaptation of André Alexis’s award-winning novel is on through April 21 at the Segal Centre. “The story about my life is not complicated, it’s not sad, it’s not tormented.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
thestar.com | Matthew Hays
WARNING: This article contains spoilers. For Lynne Griffin, the audition seemed very straightforward. After all, the character the Toronto actress was trying out for didn’t have many lines. But one question seemed unusual: “How do you feel about having a plastic bag over your head?”She was actually fine with that because as an avid swimmer she had lots of experience holding her breath.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
cultmtl.com | Cult MTL |Matthew Hays
Best Ribs in Montreal: Best of MTL 2024As voted by our readers in the 2024 Best of MTL readers poll, here’s where you can find the best ribs in Montreal. For more results from the Best of MTL, please click here. These are the best restaurants for ribs in Montreal. To read the 2024 Best of MTL issue, please click here. For more on the food and drink scene in Montreal, please visit the Food & Drink section.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
mjbizdaily.com | John Fraser |Matthew Hays |Kate Lavin |Gerald Aben
(This is a contributed guest column. To be considered as an MJBizDaily guest columnist, please submit your request here.)It’s no secret that the federal government’s original decision to make marijuana a Schedule 1 controlled substance was motivated by politics instead of science. While it has taken more than 50 years, the federal government is now on the cusp of rescheduling marijuana to Schedule 3 in acknowledgement of the cannabis plant’s numerous health benefits.
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May 7, 2024 | 
povmagazine.com | Matthew Hays
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
mdpi.com | Matthew Hays |Elizabeth Ligon Bjork |Matthew Jensen |Scott Richard Kustes
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
cultmtl.com | Natalia Yanchak |Lorraine Carpenter |Matthew Hays
Reviews of five video games produced in Montreal (and the region) by Natalia Yanchak and Marc Shakour. With more than 300 video game studios in Quebec, it’s not unusual for several games to be released by Montreal studios every month. These five games being released in April — highly polished, super fun titles in a variety of genres — are the result of years of development by small, hyper talented local teams. There’s something for everything coming out of Montreal’s indie game scene this month.
