It’s Oscar season again and the films competing for this year’s statuettes are as wildly diverse a group as the Academy has seen this millennium. While all of the films in competition are deserving of recognition, category by category it is not all that hard, in most cases, to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Month: February 2008
Viewpoint: Juno’s fawning over top-selling pap a disservice to real artists
When Celine Dion refused to play the Halifax Commons last November, the uproar from the East Coast city was swift and punishing.
French immersion cuts upset parents

Lisa Xing, Centretown News
Ian Derby-Turnbull, 12, is helped by his teacher, Kristi Bloc, in his Grade 7 late French immersion class at Glashan Public School. The program faces the axe in September.Solution to Dalhousie grocery store woes may be just around the corner
The Dalhousie neighbourhood may get some much-needed nutrition relief after two years without a grocery store.