In case anyone is curious ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/223...
In case anyone is curious ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/223...
Port of Vancouver set a record high for annual cargo handled, bolstered by increased trade with China.
Canadaโs largest port processed 170.4M tonnes last year of imported and exported cargo. Exports of crude oil, grain and potash hit record levels.
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Gunfire crackled in the nearby Dahiya, an Israeli drone buzzed overhead, and Lebanonโs Middle East airlines kept flying.
My report from Beirut on โthe most badass airline on the planetโ
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Punching, Slamming, Screaming: A Chefโs Past Abuse Haunts Noma, the Worldโs Top-Rated Restaurant www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/d...
Atom Egoyan spoiling an aesthetic experience is quite an anecdote.
I was fortunate to encounter this work of art in a particularly beautiful setting, in the chapel of the National Gallery of Canada.
"Each time that we're approaching one speaker, it is as if we're approaching that singer specifically and we can hear their voice."
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"When you walk into this space, the sound is so three-dimensional for you that it's like walking into a piece of music."
More details here about that installation and about Cardiff's art.
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One special way to experience Tallis' hauntingly beautiful music is by walking in Janet Cardiff's art installation, where each of the 40 voices in Spem in alium is played in a separate speaker. www.youtube.com/watch?v=38OR...
One of the secret pleasures of print journalism is teaming with talented photographers and seeing how they plan visually, how they set up all their hardware, how they position themselves for a great shot.
Farewell Bruno. Had the pleasure of crossing your path when I was at the Citizen in 1988.
โBoth Ireland and the English Caribbean were settled disproportionately by people of south-west and western England,โ Devonish says, adding: โThe similarities in vowels and intonation may be a result of that shared origin.โ
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Increasingly, the toughest task for potential host cities is convincing skeptical local residents that the long-term benefits of an Olympic Games outweigh the steep up-front costs.
#Olympics
#Calgary
#WorldSport
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This is a hugely important story: everyone concerned with learning and truth should read it. Presented with prompts about a lesser-known turn-of-the-last-century composer, an LLM produces a nice, clear readable evaluation of her Symphony No. 1 - which DOESN'T EXIST. Everything is made up. ๐ตโ๐ซ
Found this great piece on misheard words and phrases while looking up the old โknowledge is power, France is baconโ story (after a Grauniad article today mentioned โtimes in memorialโ). The videos at the end are really worth watching too. thehabit.co/knowledge-is...
I have a difficult and unresolved relationship with Chopin, but it's his birthday today, so.
His first Ballade. There's nothing like it on earth. An unforgettable narrative, an adventure really . Cannot even process what it must be like to play.
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Shedding a small Torontonian tear as I walk down the main street of Montreal hearing the unmistakable honk of the truck that signals drivers to move their cars before the plows arrive or risk being towed. Thatโs how you know Montrรฉalโs superior snow clearing is coming.
After the name of the Tumbler Ridge shooter was made public, ChatGPT discovered the shooter had opened a second account, after the first account was banned last June for violating the companyโs violent activities policy.
Craig McMorris commented on waking up at 4am for covering snowboarding.. so I knew he was in Toronto.. felt he did a great job.. he was a bit quiet during his brothers run but it was very understandable given the circumstances
"A reminder that, when CBCโs Andi Petrillo, Anastasia Bucsis and Kurt Browning talk about what a lovely evening it is in Verona for this closing ceremony, theyโre not actually there. The commentating for all of the sports during these Games โ except for hockey โ was done remotely out of CBCโs headquarters in Toronto, a practice that began with the 2020 (postponed to 2021) and 2022 Games because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and has endured because of budget restraints."
My colleague @simonhoupt.bsky.social with a reality check about the CBC's coverage of the closing ceremony...
In the UK: "Cottaging" is a British gay slang term for engaging in, or cruising for, anonymous sexual activity with other men in public toilets (often referred to as "cottages" or "tea-rooms").
"For people in the UK or the US, 'cottage' brings to mind a small country dwelling, but in Canada, the term 'cottage' means 'holiday home' โ often a second or rented residence in a rural or lakefront area where Canadians head ... to escape the bustle of urban life."
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OpenAI had a meeting with the BC govt the day after the Tumbler Ridge killings but didn't reveal that it had suspended the shooterโs account months earlier due to its violent content.
The company waited until the next day to reach out to the RCMP.
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SCOOP: Alberta Health Services destroyed roughly half of the children's medication imported from Turkey, paying $718,000 to dispose of the hazardous waste.
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โHeโs there,โ she said. โWe found him.โ
Remarkable how museum cross-referenced Robert Capa's photos with US army film records and uncovered footage of the great war photographer in action during the liberation of Paris in 1944.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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Two men sentenced to prison in fraud in the multimillion-dollar public-private partnership redevelopment of Torontoโs St. Michaelโs Hospital.
Former chief admin officer Vas Georgiou gets 5 years. John Aquino of Bondfield Construction, gets 7 years.
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Est-ce que Terrebonne va dรฉcider si le gouvernement libรฉral de Mark Carney devient majoritaire?
Rรฉponse : oui.
168 dรฉputรฉs + Matt Jeneroux + 2 circonscriptions sรปres de Toronto (dรฉmissions de Bill Blair et Chrystia Freeland)
= 171. รa prend 172 รฉlus pour une majoritรฉ ร Ottawa.