“YVR Screen Scene For India is a show of support and a call to action,” said Furminger, who is the host of the YVR Screen Scene Podcast. “I have a lot of family in Mumbai and Delhi. These last few weeks – with every headline about overcrowded hospitals, oxygen shortages, and over- inundated crematoriums, as well as frantic messages in the family WhatsApp group – have left me feeling so powerless. I know I’m not alone in that.
“And so I decided to take that feeling and channel it into doing some good. I reached out to my favourite local South Asian Canadian actors and invited them to participate in the live video event with yours truly – kind of like
COVID-19: YVR Screen Scene for India benefit brings together actors for online event Fundraising event set to help with India COVID-19 relief hosted by YVR Screen Scene Podcast s Sabrina Rani Furminger.
Author of the article: Dana Gee
Publishing date: May 03, 2021 • May 3, 2021 • 3 minute read • Actor and filmmaker Agam Darshi (Funny Boy) is one of a group of actors that will be helping to raise money for India COVID-19 relief with the YVR Screen Scene for India benefit. Photo by Dekko U Studio /PNG
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James Croot17:50, May 01 2021
Nurses begins streaming on TVNZ OnDemand at midday on April 30.
REVIEW: Just when you thought there was no more room for North American medical dramas, Canada gets in on the act. We’ve already had the Ontario hospital system thoroughly examined by Syrian refugee Dr Bashir “Bash” Hamed (Hamza Haq) in the entertaining
Transplant and now joining it (as well as old south-of-the-border favourites
Grey’s Anatomy and
Nurses. As the title helpfully suggests, it follows the trials and tribulations of a group of frontline caregivers at the fictional St Jude’s Hospital. In typical medical soap fashion, we initially meet our central quintet on their first day. After the predictable jibes from ER veterans about them being “fresh meat”, our nervous five are given a pep talk by charge nurse Sinead O’Rourke (Cathy White), which is both inspiring and sobering. Comparing them to the “rock star” interns starting on the same day, she say
What caused the outrage?
The episode in question, which aired on February 9, reportedly contained a scene in which a young Orthodox Jewish man named Israel was hospitalized for a shattered leg. When a doctor informed Israel and his father that he required a bone graft, Israel said, âYou want to put a dead leg inside of me?â
In the scene, his father said âA dead goyim leg from anyone. An Arab, a woman,â to which a nurse chimed in, âOr God forbid an Arab woman.â Israel ultimately refused the bone graft, saying that âItâs God who heals what he creates.â Goyim is the Yiddish word for non-Jewish persons.