Kat Jayme’s Grizzlie Truth

FOR NEARLY 20 YEARS, Toronto has had a monopoly over professional baseball and basketball in Canada. In baseball, even though they predated the Toronto Blue Jays by nearly a decade, the Montreal Expos relocated to Washington D.C. in 2004, leaving the Jays to claim the title as “Canada’s Team.” And although both basketball franchises began playing in 1995, the Vancouver Grizzlies would move south to Memphis, Tennessee in 2001, while the Toronto Raptors have cried “We the North” straight to a championship.

Despite the marketing efforts to arouse a sense of nationalistic pride around these Toronto-based teams, there are plenty of Vancouverites and Montrealers who long for the days when they truly had a hometown team to support.

Kat Jayme is one of those people. A self-admitted obsessive, Jayme hasn’t let go of her love for the Grizzlies, and if anything, her affection for the franchise has only grown in the 20 years, her feature-film directorial debut that seeks to give fans like her closure as to what exactly happened to the Vancouver Grizzlies.