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Filmmakers Guy Maddin, Matthew Rankin tell TIFF crowd about coming through Winnipeg’s ‘anti-mainstream’ scene | CBC News

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Two Winnipeg-spawned filmmakers who have both offered up surreal visions of the Prairie city — albeit almost 20 years apart — talked to a Toronto International Film Festival crowd this week about the reception to their latest movies and what it’s like to try to present Winnipeg to the world in film. Guy Maddin and Matthew Rankin…

Concordia professionals go on strike over ‘inequitable’ access to hybrid work | CBC News

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More than a year after their collective agreement ended, staff at Concordia University are calling on their employer to make hybrid work available to all professional employees — the union’s main demand as they hold several strike days during the fall semester. Members of the union for professional employees at Concordia University (CUPEU–CSN) have been…