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When Roger Ebert died April 4, the film criticism community lost one of its most popular voices. Ebert was so well-known that his death was covered prominently on the front pages of newspapers as well as on television and social media channels.

But of the thousands of film critics around the world, why Ebert? And, more broadly, what’s the point of film criticism in the first place?

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University of Toronto alumnus Jeff Rubin is an award winning author, resource analyst and former Chief Economist and Managing Director, CIBC World Markets.

U of T News caught up with Rubin recently to chat about his new book, The End of Growth, and what it was like to return to Innis College for the launch.

Tell us a little about the new book.

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Shooting the film Midnight’s Children pushed her physically like no other film has, director Deepa Mehta  said of the film that tells the story of India's independence from British colonial rule.

The Oscar-nominated director and screenwriter spoke to an intimate audience recently at Innis College Town Hall about her recent film, adapted from the best-selling Salman Rushdie novel.