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Starlight Tour
The Saskatoon freezing killings involved Indigenous Canadians in and immediately outside Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, in the 1990s and early 2000s, and are alleged to be linked to actions by the members of the Saskatoon Police Service (SPS). Police officers would arrest Indigenous people, who were usually male, for alleged drunkenness and/or disorderly behaviour, sometimes without cause. The officers would then drive them to the outskirts of the city at night during winter and abandon them, leaving them stranded in sub-zero temperatures. The practice is known as taking Indigenous people on "starlight tours" and dates back to at least 1976. Incidents Among the First Nations victims who have died from hypothermia were Rodney Naistus, Lawrence Wegner and Neil Stonechild. Naistus and Wegner died in 2000, and their bodies were discovered on the outskirts of Saskatoon. Inquests in 2001 and 2002 into their deaths determined they were due to hypothermia. The inquest jury's recommend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Winter Riverbank 1 (16750295505)
Winter is the coldest and darkest season of the year in temperate climate, temperate and Polar regions of Earth, polar climates. It occurs after autumn and before spring (season), spring. The Axial tilt#Earth, tilt of Earth's axis causes seasons; winter occurs when a Hemispheres of Earth, hemisphere is oriented away from the Sun. Different cultures define different dates as the start of winter, and some use a definition based on weather. When it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, it is summer in the Southern Hemisphere, and vice versa. Winter typically brings precipitation that, depending on a region's climate, is mainly rain or snow. The moment of winter solstice is when the Sun's elevation with respect to the North or South Pole is at its most negative value; that is, the Sun is at its farthest below the horizon as measured from the pole. The day on which this occurs has the shortest day and the longest night, with daytime, day length increasing and nighttime, night lengt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Canada Award
The Diversity Award was a special award presented by Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to honour excellence in English-language television programming that reflects the racial and cultural diversity of Canada". It was introduced in 1988 as the Multiculturalism Award under the umbrella of the Gemini Awards,Bill Anderson, "Spotlight on Canadian TV; CBC sequel, CTV mini-series share top billing in Gemini nominations". ''Ottawa Citizen'', October 13, 1988. and renamed to the Canada Award in 1993."Vision TV show honored for multiculturalism". ''Waterloo Region Record'', February 10, 1993. The winner of the award was generally announced in advance of the ceremony, although the award was presented to the producers at the ceremony. It was renamed to the Diversity Award in 2014 after the Geminis were merged into the Canadian Screen Awards. It has not been presented since the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016. National Film Board of Canada productions and co-productions have won app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Canadaland
Canadaland is a Canadian podcast and also the name of a company founded by Jesse Brown in 2013. The original podcast covered Canadian media and media criticism. At one time the company produced other weekly or monthly podcasts covering a range of topics. As of 2024, only the flagship show, Canadaland, remained. It is hosted three days a week by Brown and once a week by Noor Azrieh. History The company was launched by Jesse Brown in the autumn of 2013. The original intention of the podcast was media criticism. In 2015, expanded to become a podcast network featuring entertainment and some news. In February 2014, ''Canadaland'' reported that CBC anchor Peter Mansbridge had been paid by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) to speak at a 2012 event, raising concerns about a conflict of interest given ''The National''’s coverage of the oil sands. The story was picked up by ''The Huffington Post'', ''Vice'', sparked public debate, and prompted an investigation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Criminal (podcast)
''Criminal'' is a podcast that focuses on true crime. It is recorded in the studios of WUNC in Chapel Hill, NC, and is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. The show describes itself as telling "stories of people who've done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle." History and development Lauren Spohrer, Phoebe Judge, and Eric Mennel met while working on ''The Story with Dick Gordon'' at WUNC. After the program ended, they decided to make a podcast together. Remarking that there was an overlap between fans of podcasts and fans of the fictional procedural ''Law & Order'', Spohrer suggested that they make their podcast about crime. The show launched in January 2014. Nadia Wilson came on as a producer who joined the show in September 2016. Meanwhile, Spohrer was working as a WUNC producer who was teaching essay writing at Duke University; Judge was anchoring the station's broadcast of the program '' Here & Now''; and Mennel was a producer at ''All Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Michael Rubinoff
Michael Rubinoff is a Canadian theatre producer and lawyer, who has produced several musical theatre productions across Canada and the United States. He established the Canadian Music Theatre Project (CMTP) in 2011, which was an incubator for developing and workshopping new Canadian musicals. Personal life Rubinoff attended University of Western Ontario, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. He also graduated with a law degree in 2001 from the University of Western Ontario. While enrolled as a student, Rubinoff ran as an independent candidate in the London North Centre riding against Joe Fontana during the 1997 federal election. In his final year of law school, he also directed the university's production of '' Blood Brothers''. Career Law career After receiving his law degree, Rubinoff articled with Goodman and Carr in 2001. He also worked as a lawyer in private practice in Toronto, mainly working as a commercial real estate lawyer. He als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
London, Ontario
London is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, along the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor. The city had a population of 422,324 according to the 2021 Canadian census. London is at the confluence of the Thames River (Ontario), Thames River and North Thames River, approximately from both Toronto and Detroit; and about from Buffalo, New York. The city of London is List of Ontario separated municipalities, politically separate from Middlesex County, Ontario, Middlesex County, though it remains the county seat. London and the Thames River (Ontario), Thames were named after the London, English city and River Thames, river in 1793 by John Graves Simcoe, who proposed the site for the capital city of Upper Canada. The first European settlement was between 1801 and 1804 by Peter Hagerman. The village was founded in 1826 and Municipal corporation, incorporated in 1855. Since then, London has grown to be the largest southwestern Ontario municipality and Canada's List of census metropolita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Grand Theatre (London, Ontario)
The Grand Theatre is a professional theatre located at 471 Richmond Street just south of Dufferin Avenue in London, Ontario, Canada. Its main Spriet Stage has a seating capacity of 839 with a regular season running from September to May. In addition, it has a secondary venue called The Auburn Theatre (previously the McManus Theatre), located on the lower floor with a seating capacity of 150. History The theatre opened on September 9, 1901 under the ownership of the theatre magnate, Ambrose Small who reportedly considered this theatre his favourite of his numerous similar holdings. He disappeared mysteriously on December 2, 1919. That day, Mr. Small deposited one million dollars in a Toronto bank account, lunched with his wife and was never seen again. Weeks after his disappearance, the night watchman swore he saw Mr. Small entering The Grand Theatre. Despite this lead, police were never able to close the file. It is rumoured that he haunts the building to this day. This building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sheridan College
Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, formerly Sheridan College of Applied Arts and Technology, is a public polytechnic institute partnered with private Canadian College of Technology and Trades operating campuses across the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1967, it is known for academic programs in creative writing and publishing, animation and illustration, film and design, business, applied computing, and engineering technology, among others. Sheridan operates the Davis Campus in Brampton, the Trafalgar Road Campus in Oakville, and the Hazel McCallion Campus in Mississauga. In 2024 Sheridan College's investment in International student enrollment was blamed for the cancellation of 40 programs and major layoffs. History Founding Sheridan College was established in 1967. The School of Graphic Design was located in Brampton, Ontario until 1970, when it moved to the new campus in Oakville, Ontario. The Brampton campus was a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Cathy Elliott
Cathy Elliott (1957–2017) was a Mi'kmaq artist, musician, composer and playwright and member of the Sipekne'katik Mi'kmaq First Nation in Nova Scotia, Canada. She was known for working with Indigenous youth across Canada to express their culture through theatre and documentary film. She worked for several years with the DAREarts program and also wrote the first all-Indigenous musical to be offered at the Charlottetown Festival. The musical, ''The Talking Stick'', was premiered in Prince Edward Island for the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in 2011. Elliott was struck by a car and killed while walking alongside a road in Essa, Ontario, on October 15, 2017. Early life and family Elliott was born in Quebec on June 5, 1957, to Roger Cormier, an Acadian, and Frances Bernard Cormier, who was Irish and Mi'kmaq. Her maternal grandfather ran away from residential school. Roger Cormier worked in the financial sector and as a result, the family lived in a number of locations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mi'kmaq
The Mi'kmaq (also ''Mi'gmaq'', ''Lnu'', ''Mi'kmaw'' or ''Mi'gmaw''; ; , and formerly Micmac) are an Indigenous group of people of the Northeastern Woodlands, native to the areas of Canada's Atlantic Provinces, primarily Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland, and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec as well as Native Americans in the northeastern region of Maine. The traditional national territory of the Mi'kmaq is named Mi'kma'ki (or Mi'gma'gi). There are 66,748 Mi'kmaq people in the region as of 2023 (including 25,182 members in the more recently formed Qalipu First Nation in Newfoundland). According to the Canadian 2021 census, 9,245 people claim to speak Mi'kmaq, an Eastern Algonquian language. Once written in Mi'kmaw hieroglyphic writing, it is now written using most letters of the Latin alphabet. The Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, and Pasamaquoddy nations signed a series of treaties known as the Covenant Chain of Peace and Friendship Treaties with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Wailin' Jennys
The Wailin' Jennys are a Canadian music group. A 2011 review says they "sing like siblings and play like seasoned veterans". They have released several albums and received two Juno Awards. The group has been featured several times on the American Public Media program ''A Prairie Home Companion''. History The group was founded in 2002, when a Winnipeg guitar shop called Sled Dog Music brought Ruth Moody, Nicky Mehta and Cara Luft together for a joint performance. The show was well received and the owner, John Sharples, scheduled a follow-up performance and suggested they "go on tour and call themselves the Wailin' Jennys."Notes the 2005-05-21 episode of ''A Prairie Home Companion'', viewed 2006-10-10 The group's name is a |
Kris Demeanor
Kris Demeanor is a Canadian poet, musician and actor, who received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards for his performance in the film ''The Valley Below''. Prior to his performance in the film, Demeanor worked primarily as a musician and poet, releasing six CDs and serving a term as poet laureate of Calgary, Alberta from 2012 to 2014. His song "I Have Seen the Future" formed the basis of Cam Christiansen's animated film of the same name,"Animator draws on subjects' inner lives". ''Calgary Herald'', June 17, 2011. which was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's year-end Canada's Top Ten list in 2007."Cronenberg, Arcand make Hogtown film festival's top Canadian movies list". '' Daily Gleaner'', December 12, 2007. In 2021 he appeared in '' Range Roads'', the second film by ''The Valley Below'' director Kyle Thomas.Eric Volmers"The Quiet Road: Calgary filmmaker's sophomore film, Range Roads, a subtle drama abou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
