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iPhoto caption: Waseem Alzer in 'The Green Line'. Photo by Jeremy Mimnagh.

REVIEW: The Green Line unspools an exquisitely written narrative of love and loss in Beirut

Playwright-director Makram Ayache’s The Green Line opens by describing this “no-man’s land” as an imaginary place — a political concept that materialized in the vegetation that reclaimed the land. For Ayache, the Green Line becomes a site of reckoning, remembrance, and restitution.

By Ferron Delcy / Sep 30, 2025
Chris Tolley and Laura Mullin, the co-creators of CBC's PlayME podcast. iPhoto caption: Photo courtesy of the CBC.

As the trade war rages on, CBC’s PlayME stays true to its mandate of platforming Canadian writers

“I think all five of these shows really help us plant a stake in saying who we are as Canadians,” says PlayME co-creator Chris Tolley.

By Nathaniel Hanula-James / Mar 12, 2025