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Commotion: the fate of the Vancouver Folk Fest, and what's new with NOW Magazine?

Today on Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud: longtime festival fans Lisa Christiansen and Naomi Moses, culture critic Huda Hassan

Today on Commotion: Lisa Christiansen and Naomi Moses, Huda Hassan

drone shot of Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Now Magazine Toronto logo 2022
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Today on Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud:

  • With the Vancouver Folk Music Festival cancelling its 2023 edition and possibly shutting down for good, we check in with two regular attendees, Lisa Christiansen and Naomi Moses, to tell us why this event is so important to the city, and how it could be saved.
     
  • CBC columnist and culture critic Huda Hassan joins Elamin to unpack the milestones, controversies and implications tied to the recent acquisition of Toronto legacy magazine NOW by rising media journalist Brandon Gonez and his company Gonez Media Inc.