For its 18th annual edition, the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival is back with a wide variety of films in what organizers call “Canada’s largest pan-Asian film festival dedicated to showcasing contemporary Asian films and work from the Asian… »
Wojtek Gwiazda
Wojtek Gwiazda is a veteran award-winning broadcast and print journalist. As one of RCI’s senior host-producers he focused mainly on news and current affairs programming. He has hosted a variety of programmes, including MASALA CANADA, the Indo-Canadian Report, Canada in the World, North Country, and The Music Shop (a Canadian rock music show). Before joining RCI, he worked extensively for Canada’s national public broadcaster CBC radio, as well as for publications such as The Montreal Gazette, Cinema Canada Magazine, and Canadian Business Magazine. He produced a program on the history of Quebec song for Canada’s national French radio service Radio-Canada, and was an on-air music columnist at the service. He retired from RCI in July, 2015 and can be reached at wojtekgwiazdamtl@gmail.com or on Twitter at @WojtekGwiazda
Krzysztof Wodiczko talks about his ‘Homeless Projection’ at the Montreal Biennale
Since the 1980s artist Krzysztof Wodiczko’s video projections on buildings have taken complex issues into public spaces. His latest work “Homeless Projection: Place des Arts, 2014” features homeless people talking about their lives, others’ perceptions of them, and their perceptions… »
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Politics Today – October 26, 2014
On this edition of Politics Today RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda looks at the week’s political news including the discussion on national security and individual rights after the shootings in Ottawa. twitter.com/wojtekgwiazda
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
For more than two decades University of Regina professor James Daschuk has assembled documentation of how disease and the politics of starvation decimated the Indigenous population in what is now the western prairie provinces of Canada. From diseases such as… »
Economy, International, Politics
Canada loses Ford Motor Company investment to Mexico
A planned Ford Motor Company investment in a Canadian plant in the city of Windsor which would have created 1000 jobs has fallen through, and will now be built in Mexico, according to a press release Friday (October 24) from… »
International, Politics, Society
Day after Ottawa shootings, questions about security, democracy and new laws
The day after the shooting of a soldier in Ottawa at the National War Memorial and the shooting of the gunman in Canada’s Parliament buildings, Members of Parliament were back in the House of Commons on Thursday (October 23), after… »
Montreal documentary film festival announces line-up for 17th edition
The line-up and events at the 17th edition of the the Montreal International Documentary Festival (Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal – RIDM) were announced Wednesday (October 22) in Montreal. This year the festival, which presents documentaries from Canada and around the… »
Everything you wanted to know about minimum wages, but didn’t know who to ask
“There is no consistent connection between higher minimum wages and employment levels in Canada” says a new study by the Ottawa think tank the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) released on Tuesday (October 21). The study which looked at… »
15th edition of imagineNATIVE features Canadian, international Indigenous artists
Started in 1998 the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and its annual tour (that takes selected programming to remote Indigenous communities) is in its 15th annual edition starting October 22 and focuses on new and innovative film, video, radio, and new… »
‘L’avenir (looking forward)’ theme of latest edition of Montreal Biennale
Featuring 50 artists and four curators, the latest edition of La Biennale de Montreal opens October 22 and continues until January 4, 2014. At a press conference Tuesday (October 21) Sylvie Fortin the Executive and Artistic Director of the art… »
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