Anne Lagace-Dowson is director general of the anti-bullying Tolerance Foundation. She is an award winning broadcast journalist and political analyst. Anne appears every weekday morning at 9.05 am on CJAD for a lively debate on the topics of the hour. On Thursday, she appears on the Radio Canada premier political panel at 10 pm with Celine Galipeau on Le Telejournal. She authors Bloke Nation, a weekly column in the entertainment weekly HOUR. LaPress calls Anne a hinge between English and French Canada. In 2008 Anne made an impressive political debut for the NDP, almost taking down the star Liberal candidate in Westmount. She is the daughter of the late Hugh Dowson of Toronto, and Quebec City's Claire Lagace. She is a proud standard bearer for French immersion. Anne is married to independent film maker Brian McKenna,mother to Emma and Tess, stepmother to Robin, Katie, and Conor.
 



 

  • Margaret

    Submitted : Thu, 02/02/2012 - 00:00

    In The Iron Lady, we were hungering for a great political film.
    We did not get it. Instead, Meryl Strep as Margaret Thatcher, which is almost worth the price of admission on a Tuesday night, served us up a master class in acting.

  • What’s opera, doc?

    Submitted : Thu, 01/26/2012 - 00:00

    I went to the opera on Saturday night. It was a completely enjoyable evening and not just because half bottles of bubbly are available at the intermission.
    It was the Opéra de Montréal’s production of Il Trovatore (The Troubadour) by Giuseppe Verdi, directed by 35-year-old Quebecer Oriol Tomas. It was first performed in 1853 and is considered to be one of the three Verdi masterpieces, along with Rigoletto (1851) and La Traviata (also 1853).

  • The Proust Questionnaire

    Submitted : Thu, 01/19/2012 - 00:00

    Bookstores are full of self-help books. There are a lot of parlour games to be played, which you can often buy at the same stores you find the self-help books.
    But the most telling self-help parlour game is not a game or a book. It is a questionnaire. Not the kind you filled in at the doctor’s office. Or at school, when searching for a career or an aptitude.

  • Torching the planet

    Submitted : Thu, 01/12/2012 - 00:00

    At sunset the lone fisherman makes his toss. It’s a small circular net, weighted so it sinks, trapping the catch. It is a timeless gesture that goes back millennia. I watched it each evening in Mexico on holiday. But if you ask that fisherman how the fish are doing, he shakes his head.

  • Mr. Potter and the great vampire squid

    Submitted : Thu, 01/05/2012 - 00:00

    If you haven’t seen it yet, there is still time.
    It’s a Wonderful Life. The film with Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed. It first came out in black and white and then was colourized. For a lot of people it’s a Christmas tradition along with A Charlie Brown Christmas.
    But this year, watching it again, it really hit me. It is shockingly relevant to the post-2008 crash world. It scans as a parable about Goldman Sachs, except in the movie Goldman is called Mr. Potter. He’s the Scrooge of the piece.

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