Geoff Johnson: Dual-credit programs help pave way to post-secondary studies timescolonist.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from timescolonist.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Victoria s Sean Horleor, left, and his partner, Steve J. Adams, wrote and directed Someone Like Me, which recently won the audience award for Canadian feature documentary at Toronto s Hot Docs film festival. It is available for streaming until May 16 through Vancouver Doxa festival (doxafestival.ca). Photo: Grady Mitchell Victoria-bred filmmaker Sean Horlor has Donald Trump to thank (or is it blame?) for his recent success at the largest documentary film festival in North America. Someone Like Me, which the Vancouver-based Horlor, 40, co-wrote and co-directed with his partner, Steve J. Adams, snagged one of five Rogers Audience Award trophies and $10,000 in cash at Toronto’s Hot Docs festival on Sunday. The roots of the film about a group of LQBTQ Vancouverites who attempt to sponsor a queer refugee from Uganda date back to 2015, when Trump was positioning himself for a run at the U.S. presidency.
Finn Halladay, son of Del Halladay, will play field lacrosse at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Kyle Pepper, son of Grant Pepper, and Sylvi Jenner, daughter of Fred Jenner, will both play at St. Bonaventure in upstate New York. “It’s a cool lineage,” said Claremont athletic director Darren Reisig, also a Mann Cup champion former Shamrocks player in the Western Lacrosse Association and pro in the National Lacrosse League. “The extra special aspect of this recruitment class are the ties to the Shamrocks of these three players as their fathers are ’Rocks alumni and Mann Cup winners from the 1990s.”
Will We Rock You? Schools musical-theatre productions navigate pandemic uncertainties timescolonist.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from timescolonist.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.