Plus, dispatches from Ontario’s broken health care system
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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

 

In today’s edition of This City: writer-director Megan Park on her new Muskoka-set movie, My Old Ass; dispatches from Ontario’s broken health care system; and more.

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“THE TITLE WAS A REMINDER NOT TO GET TOO MUSHY”

My Old Ass is a time-travel dramedy in the grand tradition of 13 Going on 30 and Seventeen Again—only with a Muskoka backdrop, magic mushrooms and a gender-reverse Justin Bieber hallucination sequence that was approved by Team Biebs. Writer-director Megan Park grew up in Lindsay, Ontario, and spent her summers on the lake. In this Q&A, she tells us about filming in Muskoka, working with producer Margot Robbie and her movie’s spicy title.

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DYING FOR A DOCTOR

Half a million Torontonians are without a primary care physician. The search is maddening, exhausting and often futile. Doctors and patients alike are fed up with the broken system. Here, dispatches from the front lines.

 

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