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Chatting with Maid Marian: Christie Laing on the OUAT Finale’s Big Twist

After Snow White and company spent the better half of the third season trying to defeat Zelena (better known as The Wicked Witch of the West), you’d think the witch’s death would mean happily ever after for our fairy tale heroes. Alas, that is not how things work on ABC’s Once Upon a Time. Sunday’s 2-hour finale found Emma and Hook sent back to the past via Zelena’s time portal, witnessing our favourite fairy tales unravel all over again — and trying their best not to change the future.

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The Queen of Comedy: Canada’s NAOMI SNIECKUS

As the saying goes, laughter truly is the best medicine—and if anyone knows about laughter, it’s award-winning actress, writer, and comedienne Naomi Snieckus.

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The Working Actor: Chatting with KEVIN O’GRADY

For many Canadians, seeing actors and actresses from their home country find success can be thrilling and encouraging—even more so when the actor is talented, deserving, and his career is really starting to blow up.

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Bold and Brave: BRICK MANSIONS’ Carolina Bartczak

Some actors catch the acting bug early—they dream of working on big Hollywood pictures as a child and fantasize about accepting their Best Actor Academy Award by the age of twenty-five. They take acting classes at the community center, pose for head shots taken by their friends, and make sure to catch every film by […]

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‘Mythos’ Makes Waves and Soars with ‘Sea and Sky’

In an industry where less than 10% of women produce or direct films, it’s refreshing to see someone like Miriam Pultro hammer away at the glass ceiling and build a platform for creative storytelling with “Mythos”. The critically acclaimed web series, which has been nominated and won numerous industry accolades, is the classic mythological tale of a hero’s journey based on mortality, family, love and fate.

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The Bomb Girls Are Back!

Throughout history, women have always been fighters. We’ve fought to be educated, to go to work, and for the right to vote. So when the fate of their show was announced last spring, the ladies of Bomb Girls didn’t take their series cancellation lying down. They fought back.

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CBC Searchlight 2014: Is Keats Conlon Canada’s Best New Artist?

The CBC—Canada’s government funded public radio and television media giant – is determined to bring Canadian content to us, as Canadians and part of that task, for them at least, is digging through the Canada’s crop of aspiring talent to find a handful of people who deserve to be on the radio in their Searchlight 2014 […]

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More Than A Sharp Pair of Stilettos: BANSHEE’s Hoon Lee

I love television—I always have. I love being swept up in a story and having the opportunity to get to know captivating characters, to get to return to their lives week after week. As I’ve gotten older and started to explore film-making myself, my appreciation for shows that take risks has really grown. I admire […]

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P.O.W: Kitty Holtzclaw

In her exclusive series, staff writer Rebecca Rowell puts a spotlight on women in the workforce. P.O.W or Power of Women is a series of interviews with women who are making breakthroughs in their careers and teaching the upcoming generation a few things about woman power.  My next profile for the P.O.W series is a woman pastor. She’s an […]

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P.O.W: Dawndy Mercer Plank

In a new series, staff writer Rebecca Rowell puts a spotlight on women in the workforce. P.O.W or Power of Women is a series of interviews with women who are making breakthroughs in their careers and teaching the upcoming generation a few things about woman power.  Author’s Note: To begin my new series, P.O.W, I […]

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Glassy is Classy: The Girls With Glasses Celebrate 3 Years! (And some big news …)

When inspiring television for women was headed down a spiral and “trainwreck TV” was on the upswing instead, Brooke White and Summer Bellessa joined forces to create and co-host a new kind of show with the “smart girl” in mind. A show for women that was different: refreshing, happy, uplifting, clean and with a whole […]

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Miriam Pultro’s “Midsummer” Love

To film or not to film, that is the question. Recent years have shown that the talented bard William Shakespeare is a well-liked commodity in film, and actress and writer Miriam Pultro finds the answers to the popular verse while filming her modernized adaptation of William Shakespeare’s adored play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in Midsummer.

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Dating A Wedding Photographer

About four years ago I was lucky enough to steal the heart of a sweet Indiana girl with a passion for teaching the younger generation. She also loved Celine Dion, fashion, photography and lifestyle blogs. I’d never heard of the enormous phenomenon, “modern vintage,” until I met her.

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