Congrats to the B.C. filmmakers who were part of Oscar-winning teams at the 2025 Academy Awards! Vancouver producer Samantha Quan won Best Picture as part of the production team behind ANORA, while Stephen James + Rhys Salcombe won for Best Visual Effects on DUNE: PART TWO.

Elbows up here in Beautiful BC and across Canada 🇨🇦

A 35yo Canadian woman, Jasmine Mooney, from Whitehorse, Yukon has been detained by ICE at the US-Mexico border since March 3rd. On March 9th, she was listed as released, but was actually disappeared along with 30 other prisoners into a new detention center 1/3

Today is the birthday of one of Ukraine’s greatest modern poets, Lina Kostenko🎂 Let’s celebrate it by listening to this beautiful rendition of her poem Wings by one of Britain’s greatest modern actors and screenwriters, Emma Thompson. Happy birthday, Lina!

Pierre Poilievre is in PEI today. Did you know he doesn’t just want to cut the CBC—he wants to wipe it out. Islanders know what that means: no Compass, no Island Morning, no Mainstreet. Pierre Poilievre isn’t here to build Canada up—he’s here to tear it down.

Four Favorites with Francis Ford Coppola on his 86th birthday.

The 19 films just announced in this year's Cannes Film Festival competition:

“How do you make people see that everyone’s story is now a part of everyone else’s story? It’s one thing to say it, but how can you make a reader feel that is their lived experience?” —Salman Rushdie buff.ly/hziJhZN

Dear NDP voter, If there is no realistic chance the candidate in your riding will win, please vote Liberal. We can't afford to vote split in this election, that's how Conservatives win. Pierre is just like Trump, Canada can't survive either one of them. Carney for Canada 🇨🇦 Hugs

Pierre Poilievre and the CPC already campaigning off the Lapu Lapu festival tragedy. Can't even give the Filipino community a day to grieve. Mark Carney cancels rallies, the CPC make a video. One of these is PM material, the other isn't.

For the first time ever, an Indigenous person has been chosen to lead the federal department responsible for providing services to First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities. #cdnpoli thestar.com/politics/feder…

Kurt Brown: “If you don’t know what to write, ask your story, ‘What are you trying to tell me?’ Ask that and wait. There will be an answer.” #writing

How to interpret some of the most common screenwriting notes:

Wab Kinew calls out reporter.

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

“You know, once they’re declaring a renaissance, my God, that means that some dark age will be fast upon us.” —Tobias Wolff buff.ly/R1p1UHW

Not to add to the discourse, but… It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’ It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’ It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’ It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’ It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’

Robert Hass: “It’s hell writing and it’s hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.” #writing