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Advocates View Health Care as Key to Driving LGBTQ Rights Conversation
When Allison Scott came out as a trans woman in 2013, she told not only family and friends, but also her primary care physician.
January 20, 2021
She didn’t need his help with hormone therapy. She had another doctor for that. But she wanted to share the information with her doctor of more than 10 years in case it affected other aspects of her health.
by Craig Takeuchi on February 4th, 2021 at 11:00 AM 1 of 6 2 of 6
Health measures during the pandemic may have prevented people from watching films at cinemas, but online festivals have opened up a whole new world of possibilities. Once-landlocked screen celebrations can now reach a wider geographic range of audience with online offerings. Such is the case with the following upcoming film programs that can be seen in Vancouver, elsewhere in B.C., and some even beyond.
In addition, some of the selections, that were previously presented at other events like the Vancouver International Film Festival and the Whistler Film Festival, are a second chance to catch titles if you may have missed recent opportunities to do so.
In 2003’s
The Corporation, B.C. filmmakers Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott warned us that if the modern corporation was put through a psychological assessment, it’d be diagnosed a psychopath. In 2020, they returned with a sequel that admits an awful truth: the psychopaths won.
The New Corporation recaps the ensuing years of economic collapses and global decay, even incorporating COVID-19 into its narrative as both a technical obstacle to be worked through and the inevitable result of corporate disregard for public health. (And yes, this anti-corporate exposé counts Rogers and Bell among its production partners, which is perhaps the most 2020 thing about it.)
by David Friend, The Canadian Press
Posted Feb 1, 2021 9:00 am ADT
Last Updated Feb 1, 2021 at 9:10 am ADT
Morena Baccarin, left, and Gerard Butler are shown in Greenland in this undated handout photo. Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin star as parents racing to escape a planet-killing comet in Greenland, which arrives on Amazon Prime Video on Feb. 5. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Amazon Prime, STXfilms, Daniel McFadden
Gerard Butler dodges Earth-destroying comets in a thrilling new disaster flick, while Winnipeg director Guy Maddin takes the spotlight in February with a career-highlights retrospective.
The shelf of streaming picks is expanding this month as some of the biggest companies march out libraries of programming in hopes that subscribers will stick around for the show.