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Ron Haggart
Ronald Bancroft Haggart (11 May 1927 – 27 August 2011) was a Canadian journalist. Newspaper journalist Haggart was born in Vancouver into a middle-class family. An avid reader, he started writing stories in grade 6 and published a student newspaper in grade 7 that was banned by his teachers. He worked as a student journalist at the University of British Columbia. Val Sears, another student journalist recalled in 2011: "Ron’s greatest coup on that paper was, we got a picture of the dean of engineering dancing with a stripper at an engineering ball and we were told if we ran it, everybody would be fired or something awful. So we ran a blank space on page one with the same caption and then sent the picture to the newspapers downtown, and they all printed it". Starting in the 1950s, Haggart worked as a journalist variously for the '' Vancouver Sun'', the '' Globe and Mail'', the ''Toronto Star'' and the '' Toronto Telegram'' newspapers. Haggart moved to Toronto where he covered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vancouver
Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. The Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2.6million in 2021, making it the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Greater Vancouver, along with the Fraser Valley, comprises the Lower Mainland with a regional population of over 3 million. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada, with over 5,700 people per square kilometre, and fourth highest in North America (after New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City). Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada: 49.3 percent of its residents are not native English speakers, 47.8 percent are native speakers of neither English nor French, and 54.5 percent of residents belong to visible minority groups. It has been consistently rank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hippie
A hippie, also spelled hippy, especially in British English, is someone associated with the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to different countries around the world. The word ''Etymology of hippie, hippie'' came from ''Hipster (1940s subculture), hipster'' and was used to describe beatniks who moved into New York City's Greenwich Village, in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, and Chicago's Old Town, Chicago, Old Town community. The term ''hippie'' was used in print by San Francisco writer Michael Fallon, helping popularize use of the term in the media, although the tag was seen elsewhere earlier. The origins of the terms ''Hip (slang), hip'' and ''hep'' are uncertain. By the 1940s, both had become part of African-American culture, African American Glossary of jive talk, jive slang and meant "sophisticated; currently fashionable; fully up-to-date". The Beats adopted the term ''hip'', a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Channel 79
Channel 79 was removed from television use in 1983, but was formerly used by several television stations in North America which broadcast on UHF frequencies covering 860-866 MHz: * CITY-TV in Toronto, Ontario first broadcast on this frequency in 1972, the highest frequency of any North American terrestrial originating station. Initially a 31 kW signal, it upgraded in 1976 to 208 kilowatts from the CN Tower. The station has been repeatedly displaced by cellular telephone encroachment on what were formerly broadcast frequencies. On July 1, 1983 the station was moved to channel 57; in August 2011 it moved to digital UHF channel 44 and in 2020 it was repacked to physical UHF 18, but it retains "57.1" as its over-the-air virtual channel. * WTOH-TV in Toledo, Ohio was allocated to the now-defunct DuMont Television Network, but was never built; its construction permit was pulled by the FCC in 1960. * WVIT 30 Hartford operated W79AI, a repeater in Torrington, Connecticut, from 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Baby Blue Movie
''The Baby Blue Movie'' was a late-night programming block on the Canadian television channel Citytv that primarily aired softcore pornography and erotica films. Initially broadcast from 1972 to 1975 to generate publicity for the then-upstart channel, ''Baby Blue'' was the first regularly-scheduled adult television program to air in North America. The series was revived in the 1990s as ''Baby Blue 2'', which aired until 2008. History CITY-TV began broadcasting out of Toronto, Ontario on September 28, 1972 as the first commercial ultra high frequency (UHF) television station in Canada. Station founder Moses Znaimer aired feature films as the bulk of Citytv's programming as the station established itself, and hired Brian Linehan to purchase and schedule movies. To generate publicity for the new station and communicate that it was for "mature, urban adults," Znaimer conceived of a regularly scheduled block of softcore adult films to air on Friday nights, which became ''The Baby Blu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CITY-DT
CITY-DT (channel 57) is a television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, serving as the flagship station of the Citytv network. It is owned and operated by network parent Rogers Sports & Media alongside Omni Television outlets CFMT-DT (channel 47) and CJMT-DT (channel 40). The stations share studios at 33 Dundas Street East on Yonge–Dundas Square in downtown Toronto, while CITY-DT's transmitter is located atop the CN Tower. The station went on the air on September 28, 1972, by a consortium led by Phyllis Switzer, Moses Znaimer, Jerry Grafstein and Edgar Cowan, as CITY-TV, branded on-air as ''Citytv'' on Queen Street. In 1981, the station was sold to CHUM Limited, who retained Znaimer as an executive and moved to its 299 Queen Street West studios in 1987. For the majority of its early life, CITY-TV operated as an independent station, best known for its unconventional approaches to news and other locally produced programming. After having used syndication to bring its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Young (writer)
Scott Alexander Young (April 14, 1918 – June 12, 2005) was a Canadian journalist, sportswriter, novelist and the father of musicians Neil Young and Astrid Young. Over his career, Young wrote 45 books, including novels and non-fiction for adult and youth audiences. Early life Born in Cypress River, Manitoba, Young grew up in nearby Glenboro, Manitoba, where his father, Percy Andrew Young, owned a drug store. His mother was Jean Ferguson Paterson. After his father went broke in 1926, the family moved to Winnipeg, but were unable to afford to stay there. His parents separated in 1930, and he went to live with an aunt and uncle in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, for a year before moving back to Winnipeg to live with his mother. He left high school at 16 and began working for a tobacco wholesaler. Young began writing while in his teens, submitting stories to various publications, most of which were rejected. At the age of 18, in 1936, he was hired as a copyboy at the Winnipeg Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attica Prison Riot
The Attica Prison Riot, also known as the Attica Prison Rebellion, the Attica Uprising, or the Attica Prison Massacre, took place at the state prison in Attica, New York; it started on September 9, 1971, and ended on September 13 with the highest number of fatalities in the history of United States prison uprisings. Of the 43 men who died, 33 inmates and 10 correctional officers and employees, all but one guard and three inmates were killed by law enforcement gunfire when the state retook control of the prison on the final day of the uprising. The Attica Uprising has been described as a historical event in prisoners' rights movement. Prisoners revolted to seek better living conditions and political rights, claiming that they were treated as beasts. On September 9, 1971, 1,281 of the approximately 2,200 men incarcerated in the Attica Correctional Facility rioted and took control of the prison, taking 42 staff hostage. During the following four days of negotiations, authoriti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Beaucage
Brian Leslie Beaucage (22 June 1947 – 3 March 1991), better known as "Bo" Beaucage, was a Canadian gangster, outlaw biker and convicted criminal best known as one of the leaders of the 1971 Kingston Penitentiary riot. His plea bargain with the Crown in 1971 is one of the most controversial plea bargains in Canadian legal history. Entry into crime Beaucage was born in St. Catharines and grew up in London, Ontario. His parents were Leslie Beaucage and Margaret Beaucage (née Black). Beaucage came from a loving middle-class family, and was very close to his mother, who always paid to hire the best defense lawyers to represent him in his trials. Beaucage was first arrested at the age of 14 for the break and enter into a London house. As a young man, Beaucage accumulated a lengthy criminal record for various violent crimes starting in 1964 as he joined an outlaw biker gang. One policeman from the London police department, Don Andrews, said of Beaucage: "You always knew Brian wasn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millhaven Institution
Millhaven Institution (french: Établissement de Millhaven) is a maximum security prison located in Bath, Ontario. Approximately 500 inmates are incarcerated at Millhaven. Opened in 1971, Millhaven was originally built to replace Ontario's other aging maximum security prison, Kingston Penitentiary in Kingston Ontario. A riot at Kingston Penitentiary forced Millhaven to open prematurely. During the period of 1977–1984, a Special Handling Unit (SHU) operated at Millhaven, alongside its general maximum-security population. A new Canada-wide Special Handling Unit was subsequently opened in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines Quebec, and the Millhaven SHU was closed. Millhaven also housed the federal inmate intake and assessment unit for the Ontario region, the Millhaven Assessment Unit (MAU), until 2013, when the assessment unit was moved to Joyceville High Medium Institute (JAU), in order to facilitate the closing of Kingston Penitentiary. Federal parole violators were returned to MAU from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Canadian Regiment
The Royal Canadian Regiment (RCR) is an infantry regiment of the Canadian Army. The regiment consists of four battalions, three in the Regular Force and one in the primary reserve. The RCR is ranked 1st in the order of precedence amongst Canadian Army infantry regiments, but in a quirk of the rules of seniority, its 4th battalion is 9th. The RCR was originally authorized as the Infantry School Corps on 21 December 1883, and established its first three Company (military unit), company stations at Fredericton, New Brunswick; St Jean, Quebec; and Toronto, Ontario. In 1887 a fourth company was authorized and the next year was established at London, Ontario. Now consisting of three Regular Force battalions and one Reserve Force battalion, the regiment's four battalions are now stationed in Ontario and New Brunswick. With many of its soldiers drawn from Ontario and the Atlantic Provinces in recent decades, the regiment maintains a general connection as the "local" infantry regiment for an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrie MacKenzie
Barrie MacKenzie (born 1944) was a Canadian criminal who was credited with a key role in ending the 1971 Kingston Penitentiary riot. Early criminal career MacKenzie was born in Hamilton into a broken home. During his childhood, he was placed "in care" and grew up in 14 different foster homes, lonely and unloved. After being convicted of theft, he was sent to the Guelph Reformatory. In 1968, he was arrested for armed robbery and escaped from the Halton County jail in Milton by knocking out a policeman. Within half an hour, MacKenzie was recaptured. MacKenzie was sentenced later in 1968 to 8 years in prison for armed robbery, escaping lawful custody and assaulting a police officer with his sentence to be served at Kingston Penitentiary, the toughest prison in Canada. The prisoner-writer Roger Caron wrote that MacKenzie, Brian Beaucage and Wayne Ford were the three toughest prisoners at Kingston penitentiary who were all "natural leaders" and were "not to be fucked with" by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Pierre Goyer
Jean-Pierre Goyer, (January 17, 1932 – May 24, 2011) was a lawyer and Canadian Cabinet minister. Goyer was born in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, the son of Gilbert and Marie-Ange Goyer. He graduated from the University of Montreal. Goyer was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada as the Liberal Party of Canada Member of Parliament for Dollard in the 1965 election. He was re-elected in the 1968 election, and in 1970, was appointed to the Cabinet as Solicitor General of Canada by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. In this position, he oversaw the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the aftermath of the FLQ Crisis. Goyer as well as the McDonald Commission reviewed the practices of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police against the militant wing of the separatist movement and this led to the creation of a separate civilian security agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, in the 1980s and intelligence responsibilities were removed from the federal police force. Following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
