"Rogers is taking a page from Hulu, the popular U.S. video portal, with the launch of its own — albeit limited — online hub for television and movies."
- Mitchell McKenna
from Bookmarklet
"The website said in a Friday posting that although "many praise that glass structure, just as many are troubled by the incongruity to the original, more traditional museum that still sits directly beside it." - surprised it wasn't higher.
- Brian Sullivan
from Bookmarklet
I used to go to the ROM as a kid. I'm a big fan of this kind of architecture, and I really like this building. The list is somewhat questionable, with this and the Pompidou in Paris on the list as well. But one building I really do agree with is Melbourne's Federation Square. Damn that place is ugly.
- Will Higgins™
I like the ROM as well -- on the inside it seems the changes are quite nice but to me this thing looks like a wart on the building from the outside. The Gehry AGO mods I find quite pleasing though inside and out. Maybe it is just a matter of taste.
- Brian Sullivan
An actor friend of mine, Christine Ghawi, won the Best Actress Gemini (Canada's Emmys) for her portrayal of Celine Dion. Go girl! - http://www.daylife.com/photo...
"Actress Christine Ghawi reacts with her award for Best Performing Actress in a Leading Role, Dramatic Performance during the 24th annual Gemini Awards, celebrating excellence in Canadian English-language television in Calgary, Alberta, November 14, 2009."
- T. Brent, technopeasant
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One of those things: we did Oscar Wilde together, we appeared in cabarets together, and did voice work on the same video games together... then, her career rocketed!
- T. Brent, technopeasant
This is how I spend my Sunday afternoons in #yyc . Teaching young folk the bagpipes and 18th c. musket drill at the Military Museums - The 78th Fraser Highlanders - http://www.78thfrasers.org/site...
"The 78th Fraser Highlanders parade with the Brown Bess musket, the weapon which holds the record for being used the longest in British history, more than 150 years. The drill sequence to load the musket was taken from a 1757 manual entitled “The New Highland Military Discipline” by George Grant, an original copy of which is in the Museum’s library."
- T. Brent, technopeasant
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I've had this Metric song "Gimme Sympathy" in my head for days now. Awesome song & for the record: I'd choose the Rolling Stones :) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
"The Elgin Settlement was founded in 1849 through the efforts of Rev. William King to be a haven for refugee slaves and free people of colour. The settlement became known as "Buxton", in honour of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (an advocate for social reform), who was admired by Rev. King. The strict settlement rules and high moral standards made Buxton into what has been described as the "most successful" planned black settlement."
- T. Brent, technopeasant
from Bookmarklet
I grew up 3 short miles from this community, in a hamlet called 'Merlin' settled by working-class Irish. 30-40 % of the students I knew, in a school of 350, could trace their roots directly to a freed slave. This fact has influenced me, and I believe in a good way... but I'm still discerning its impact. :)
- T. Brent, technopeasant
"The 29th Battery remained with the 11th Army Field Regiment throughout the campaigns in Sicily, Italy and Northwest Europe, where they claim to have been the first Regiment of the 1st Canadian Corps from Italy to be in action on German soil."
- T. Brent, technopeasant
from Bookmarklet
After a sketchy period in the 1920s and 1930s, when he worked undercover among Canada's first narcotics agents, my maternal grandfather Charles Roy Tilley served with the Royal Canadian Artillery in WWII. He saw action in Italy and Germany. He survived, marrying a young British girl -- my Nana Doreen Gunn Tilley -- and returned to Canada. He died, though, while I was still an infant.
- T. Brent, technopeasant
We have his War Records: there are months and months of records that have been blacked out. We know he was in Scotland during that time, and that this was shortly after the Army found out he'd worked undercover. To this day, the Canadian Government will tell us nothing of his actions during that time.
- T. Brent, technopeasant
"It’s normal to be afraid of something you don’t understand. For example, math, Tyler Perry, or whether or not girls actually fart are all quite scary things. However, I’m sure with a little research you’ll find that whatever was scaring you is really just Canadians with flashlights…"
- AJ Batac
from Bookmarklet
That'd make a good list: Things suspicious people can be doing with flashlights.
- ronin
"Many Lucy Maud Montgomery fans may be shocked next week when they encounter the dark themes in the final Anne of Green Gables book, but a literary scholar says it's a side of the iconic Canadian author that was always there."
- T. Brent, technopeasant
from Bookmarklet
*blink* Rilla of Ingleside (the 8th book in the series) was pretty damn dark. Anyone who is "shocked" by the new book must not have read the entire series.
- Soup
Soup I agree. I did read the entire series.
- Melanie Reed
@Melanie, It's embarrassing to admit but nothing makes me cry like Montgomery. I just WEEP.
- Soup
@Soup Sounds like you have the soul of a warrior-poet inside!
- Melanie Reed
L.M.montgomery suffered from depression for a good part of her life - any of her readers who didn't know that may not have read between the lines of her books which were about life, full of flowers and thorns same as her own -
- sally stokhamer
It's good for Canada's self-image when one of it's literary heros is shown to be human... rather than the purveyor of sweetness she's sometimes thought to be. I'm reminded of Virginia Woolf's image of "killing the angel".
- T. Brent, technopeasant