Canada’s uncomfortable reliance on migrant workers
A new documentary, Migrant Dreams, explores the questions behind temporary foreign workers
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Katie Couric takes on America’s gun problem at Hot Docs
Katie Couric’s ’Under the Gun’ looks at what has changed in the gun-regulation since the Sandy Hook school shooting. A lot, it turns out, but for the worse.
Why romance novelists are the rock stars of the literary world
Romance writing isn’t just a billion-dollar industry. It’s also the nicest meritocracy around.
Children 404 explores plight of gay kids in Russia
Film playing at Hot Docs festival gives voice to a group that’s all but vanished from Russian public life
Who’s the ’slick fraudster’—the man claiming he’s an MIA or the U.S. military?
An MIA’s family will contribute DNA to prove the man lost to the jungles of Vietnam is their kin
Forty years later in a village in Vietnam
Canadian doc ’Unclaimed’, premiering this week at Hot Docs, finds a lost American soldier with almost no memory of his past
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Brian D. Johnson on hits from the 20th annual festival
Click here to surrender your privacy
A Hot Docs film details how Google and Facebook serve up reams of private data to the CIA, FBI and others
Meet chess champ Rochelle Ballantyne
At the end November, the 17-year-old could very well be the first African American female chess master
The documentaries of tortured artists
A slew of new films at Hot Docs focus on pushing the boundaries of the creative process