Chris Donald
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The Green Knight: A Visual and Auditory Masterpiece
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On July 30,ย The Green Knightย was released in major theatres across Canada. Directed by David Lowery and released by well-known production company A24, The Green Knightย is an adaptation of a 14th-century Middle-English poemย Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.ย Dev Patel stars as Sir Gawain, the nephew of King Arthur (Sean Harris) sent on a quest to…
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Feeling SOUR: Olivia Rodrigoโs Introduction into the Music Industry
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On May 21, Olivia Rodrigoโs debut album SOUR was released. Coming off her chart-topping single โdriverโs license,โ the release of SOUR was anxiously anticipated by fans and music fanatics alike. After the albumโs release, it skyrocketed to the top of the charts, holding the number one position on the Official Charts for two weeks. With…
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Pride Month at Laurier begins as Students’ Union hosts ‘An Evening with Jonathan Van Ness’
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Pride Month was kicked off for the Laurier community this year with the event โAn Evening with Jonathan Van Ness,โ hosted by the WLU Studentsโ Union in collaboration with nine other Ontario colleges and universities. Spencer West, disability advocate and motivational speaker, had a virtual, hour-long chat with Queer Eye celebrity and nonbinary influencer Jonathan…
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Quoi de neuf en Franรงais sur Netflix?
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Franรงais English L’augmentation de la consommation tรฉlรฉvisuelle est un effet gรฉnรฉralisรฉ du confinement. Alors, pourquoi ne pas en profiter pour se cultiver tout en se divertissant? Le portail canadien de la plateforme Netflix propose une sรฉlection de films, de sรฉries et dโรฉmissions en franรงais qui raviront les francophones et les francophiles. Voici quatre รฉmissions ร …
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Quatre chanteuses francophones ร suivre en 2021
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Franรงais English Dans un marchรฉ saturรฉ par les musiciens anglophones, comment sโen sort la musique francophone ? Plutรดt bien, ร en croire le succรจs notable rencontrรฉ par ces quatre artistes francophones au cours de la derniรจre annรฉe. Aya Nakamura, Charlotte Dipanda, Cลur de pirate et Marwa Loud sont des chanteuses superbes qui viennent de tous…
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Le public est au rendez-vous pour les RV de la francophonie
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Franรงais English Les Rendez-Vous de la Francophonie est un รฉvรฉnement annuel qui cรฉlรจbre la diversitรฉ et la vitalitรฉ des cultures francophones au Canada. Pendant tout le mois de mars, dans toutes les provinces, les RVF proposent des activitรฉs culturelles, familiales et divertissantes. Cette annรฉe, bien entendu, tout se passe en ligne. Nous avons parlรฉ avec…
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Les cรฉlรฉbrations du mois de la Francophonie ร Toronto : un peu diffรฉrentes cette annรฉe!
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Franรงais English Toronto ne nous dรฉรงoit pas pour le mois de la Francophonie cette annรฉe. Entre autres, la Semaine de la Francophonie ร ouverte ร tous, ร partir du 20 mars, avec la soirรฉe dโouverture jusquโau 27 mars. Les francophones de la rรฉgion peuvent toujours compter sur cet รฉvรฉnement qui sera offert en ligne cette…
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Le sirop d’รฉrable coule dans les veines des Quรฉbรฉcois
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Franรงais English Au Quรฉbec, ยซ culture ยป rime avec ยซ nourriture ยป! La ville de Quรฉbec compte de nombreux restaurants rรฉputรฉs qui mettent ร l’honneur des traditions culinaires ancestrales. Nous sommes allรฉs ร la rencontre dโun des employรฉs ร Lโรrabliรจre du Cap pour en savoir plus sur leurs plats les plus populaires. ย On trouve…
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Taking a look at the COVID-19 vaccination process
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As of Mar. 29, over two million total doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered throughout Canadaโthus, over 300,000 people have been fully vaccinated.ย โFor full vaccination, the vaccines approved for use require two doses, administered a few weeks apart,โ the Ontario government has stated.ย By no means is this vaccine god-sent. However, it…
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Best Arts & Life volunteer stories of 2020-21
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COVID-19 and the new movie theatre experience by Amichai Abraham Back in August of 2020, staff writer and honorary movie critic Amichai Abraham bit the bullet and took readers through exactly what it was like to visit theatres during the pandemic. Of course, theatres have been closed indefinitely for quite a long time now, and…
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