Grab your cup of coffee or tea, and sit down with a selection of this week’s great reads from The Globe.. Today, more children are being raised by single parents than ever in Canada, for a myriad reasons – divorce with full or partial custody, women conceiving via a sperm donor, the death of a partner. But despite that rise, single parents say that the existing financial support structures haven’t caught up with the times.
was more than a decade in the making. The project began as a short film in 2012, then was adapted into a one-woman play that ran for two years starting in 2014. Now, the queer Muslim Pakistani filmmaker is making her feature film debut with the same story.is a hybrid of coming-of-age film, comedy-drama and Bollywood fantasy, and was nominated for five Canadian Screen Awards this year.