The higher I climb Mount Ulriken, on this steep trail lined with massive Sitka spruces and Scots pines, the more I feel connected to Bergen, a city where people choose optimism, make nature their church and cherish brown cheese. With each brutal step, I feel the sacrosanct expanse of the Seven Mountains of Bergen, the … Read more
The subject of immortality is a popular theme to explore in fiction. It’s something that everyone thinks about or at the very least finds interesting. Since movies are a visual medium, it becomes even more powerful when the idea of immortality is explored on screen. It’s easy to project yourself onto a character grappling with … Read more
For hundreds of years we have been haunted by women who share their beds with Satan, using infernal powers to curse good people and steal the souls of believers. The witch is one of the most famous horror figures, and it’s still hard to shake the image of the white-haired, black-hearted old woman with a … Read more
Comment this story Comment Growing up in Toronto, my knowledge of Aboriginal communities was limited to a few days of history lessons. In textbooks, descriptions of the past were suspect, haloed by the now familiar rhetoric of the “white saviour”. Indigenous peoples in Canada have been trying to reclaim their culture from church and government … Read more