#Canadian Beats

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Faith In The Future World Tour: Laval. (29 May 2023)

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Louis Tomlinson

Place Bell, Laval QC

May 29th, 2023

Canadian Beats Passport

Tonight, One Direction alum Louis Tomlinson brought his Faith in The Future Tour to a packed Place Bell! During opening sets by The Academic and Snarls, the venue filled up to a brim, with the first few rows having been here since the wee hours of the morning. Tonight was Louis’ first visit to Montreal as a solo artist (and 8 years after One Direction’s show at the Olympic Stadium), so this was without saying a highly-anticipated return.

His set started with a literal bang, as pyro lit up the stage to the opening lyrics of The Greatest. Throughout the setlist, him and his band mostly performed songs from his 2022 album Faith in the Future, with a few songs from his debut album Walls, and some nods to his 1D past with fan-favourites Night Changes and Where Do Broken Hearts Go. His set is generous, filled with interactions with his loyal fanbase, and ending on upbeat track Silver Tongues.

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[natasharoldanpress]

CANADIAN BEATS INTERVIEW

[ratatatastic]

chirpy, chirpy~ like father like son i suppose

2024-25 Media Day | 9.18.24 (x)(x)

and absolutely delightful that colby kept up the inside joke yeah babey nothing like our beat and our cats opening up preseason hockey by being chirpy

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art professor logan art professor logan if you can hear me PLEASE save me from english math and history (or save me in general)

[aforgotto]

It would be really fun to make a Beat 'Em Up... Here's a character concept

I would want at least 3 other characters + stories to choose from, but this is all I could currently think of

fun facts about Ellen:

She listens to Metalcore and Dolly Parton. There is no inbetween.

Her daughter is transgender and she's very supportive

She's a lesbian

She works at a grocery store

[frankiebirds]

so, the canadian federal election isn't until 2025 (specifically ON my birthday which will be really fun) but with the orange fucker's victory in the states, rumours that a snap election will be called are increasing. i'm seeing a lot of people say things like "i like the ndp better too, but they aren't going to win, so you should strategically vote for the liberals".

based on this projection, you would think that's correct. and it would be, if we voted directly, but we don't. we vote for the MPs in our ridings, and the leader of whichever party elects the most MPs becomes prime minister. not every riding has the same projections as the federal.

for example, i live in alberta, a famously conservative province. the liberals are not currently projected to win a single riding here. on 338canada, all but two ridings range in projections from "likely cpc" to "safe cpc". one of those two, edmonton strathcona, is projected as "safe ndp", and the other, edmonton griesbach, is projected as "cpc lean". this is the current projection for it:

voting for the liberals would not be the "strategic vote" in this riding. voting for the ndp would not be "throwing away your vote" in this riding. instead of immediately voting liberal this election, take a look at the polls and projections for your riding and make a decision based on how things are looking for you, not for the entire country. i think the amount of american election content we (understandably) get has made some people forget the differences in our voting system.

(if you don't know your riding, you can search your postal code on elections.ca and it will tell you. english speakers go here and french speakers go here)

[oldshowbiz]

1958.

Archaic Canadian comedienne Anna Russell ridicules the Beat Generation.

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My friends say hi ❤️

[mistwalker-official]

⛓️ TURBO HAÜS ⛓️

Tonight we reap Hell at Turbo Haüs for the first time alongside our fellow speed freaks in Motorwolf and Cafard!

@ Turbo Haüs

2040 Rue Saint-Denis

Doors 8:00 PM

Show 8:30 PM

$10

18+

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BOOTLICKER

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( waking up one morning after 18 months of hiatus and finally getting the spark™ to freshen up ur rp blog )

[greatmuldini]

The Iron Harp

We’re all in prison together, Johnny, one way or the other.

Act 1

Outwardly, Joseph O'Conor's play is a simple tale of love and loss in times of war: set in rural Ireland in early April of 1920, the action takes place on the property of an English industrialist whose mansion has been taken over by a contingent of IRA volunteers. Their leader is Michael O'Riordan, a gifted poet-musician in civilian life and conveniently the peace-time manager of the Englishman's estate. Michael has recently been wounded in action; now blind as a result he is no longer on active duty but still responsible for an English prisoner of war. Being a man of his word, Captain John Tregarthen has made no attempt to escape, earning Michael's trust and eventually his friendship. He also earns the friendship and love of Michael’s cousin Molly Kinsella, with whom he spends long days roaming the extensive grounds of his idyllic prison. Dreaming of a future life together, the lovers are oblivious to the feelings of their “best friend” – who ends up sacrificing his love for Molly in what he hopes will be a lasting gesture of selflessness only to find that Fate intervenes, with devastating consequences for them all.

Completing the quartet of characters is the dark and “indistinct” figure of IRA commander Sean Kelly, a dark and "indistinct" figure who emerges from the shadows to immediately assert his authority not only in military matters but - crucially, and disturbingly - in those of the heart as well. Specifically, it is the heart of Michael O’Riordan that Kelly claims to know better than O’Riordan himself. As a flesh-and-blood character Kelly is difficult to pin down: cold and calculating by his own admission, he expresses admiration for Michael's hot-blooded fighting spirit. Michael's own startled response to Kelly entering "like Nemesis himself" is ambiguous at best, and even his description of Kelly as a “good friend” comes on the back of a warning to Johnny that "he won't like you."

When Kelly tells Michael that he has never been wrong and does not know what it means to feel regret, the sense of foreboding is inescapable, yet Michael never seems to give in to the negativity emanating from his old wartime comrade who admonishes him to see his friends “as they really are” and not as “you want to see them.” Ironically, Michael refuses to see an enemy in John Tregarthen, but he is equally stubborn in applying the same criteria of honour, loyalty, and friendship to Sean Kelly, who seems troubled by this flaw in Michael’s character: "you love people too much."

Michael's emotional warmth stands in stark contrast to Kelly's impersonation of infallibility - which Michael seems to accept as a token of his friend's unassailable integrity. He continues to defer to Kelly's judgment when a messenger arrives with bad news from the front: three IRA fighters have been killed in skirmishes with British forces, and reprisals must be carried out. Twisting the metaphorical knife in the very real emotional wound, Kelly as the commanding officer nominates blind Michael to be the impartial instrument of God's justice. Forced to select three victims for execution, Michael all but collapses when one of the chosen names is that of Captain John Tregarthen.

Act 2

After he has persuaded Johnny to flee the country and reunite with Molly back in England, Michael is left alone to guard the now empty house. Blind and unable to defend himself, Michael is powerless against two marauding Black & Tans who break into the property and proceed to taunt and abuse the solitary occupant. It does not take them long to realize their victim is an IRA member rather than a civilian enjoying certain protections. Further violence is prevented only by the surprise return of Captain Tregarthen, armed and in uniform, who holds the attacker at gunpoint until Kelly and his entourage arrive to take the men away. Where any other human being would have expressed relief or gratitude at the discovery that the life of his friend has been saved, Kelly’s reaction is characteristically impassive, betraying, if anything, a degree of irritation at the unforeseen complication that has shown the condemned prisoner – the enemy – to be capable of compassion and self-sacrifice in saving the life of his friend. Human qualities that Kelly explicitly claims not to possess. As if to prove the point, he responds with the formal announcement of Tregarthen’s impending execution.

The order is to be carried out within three days, enough time for Kelly to travel to headquarters - and return with a firing squad. But first he must interrogate the captured Tans. While Kelly is thus occupied, Molly manages to convince the love of her life to take her with him. Johnny only agrees to the plan on the promise that Michael will convince Kelly to rescind the execution. If Johnny and Molly can make their way to Belfast on the early morning goods train, and from there to England, all will be well. Michael knows how to distract the guards, and Molly can bribe the train driver to let Johnny jump aboard. Three loud whistles will give the all-clear. With hopes of future happiness rekindled, Molly and Johnny each rush off to their respective tasks, and Michael is left alone with three empty glasses that he cannot see – a detail that does not escape Kelly’s notice as he re-joins Michael to formally accept his plea for clemency. Which he says he will duly submit to "the general," but in his estimation the chances of success are slim. "For God's sake, don't build up hope," he tells Michael before agonizing – to himself – over how to soften the blow for Michael: by bringing the execution forward and keeping it secret, he is certain he can spare Michael the pain and the guilt of having to witness the event.

Act 3

In the pre-dawn hours of the following day, Michael and Johnny are wide awake and waiting for the sentries to change and the train to whistle. Thinking the house empty and their enemies far away, they pass the time in a dreamlike state of high anxiety, reciting heroic poems and melancholy songs in whispering voices, so as not to miss the stroke of six to mark the end of their nightmare and the beginning of a new life – only to see Kelly standing in the door, with orders for Johnny to be executed at dawn, 24 hours earlier than they were told originally. Michael's world is falling apart, he pleads with Kelly, he begs him to show mercy, but an almost equally distressed Kelly reminds him that "I have never promised you hope." Johnny declines the comfort of a priest or minister and is led away to meet his fate offstage while, also offstage, Molly will be waiting in vain for the love of her life to board a train that will never arrive.

Left on stage for their final confrontation are Michael and his Nemesis, both knowing full well that nothing they can do or say will change what Kelly might term the preordained outcome of their efforts. To Michael's accusation of "trickery" (by which he means Kelly's surprise return before the agreed time), Kelly offers no subterfuge, no defence, and no evasion. Instead, he says, Michael’s agony is self-inflicted: it was, in fact, his own stubborn insistence on hoping against hope that has now led to anguish and pain. The only way for Michael to end all suffering, Kelly explains, is to give up hope. Unless he manages to see past the private pain of the moment and becomes a distant observer, Michael will forever be "tortured by hope."

Here Kelly is borrowing from the Conte Cruel tradition made famous by Edgar Allan Poe but named after a collection of short stories by the French symbolist writer Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. A useful definition of the genre is that it concerns "any story whose conclusion exploits the cruel aspects of the irony of fate." Not only does Kelly borrow the concept, and the title from Villiers' tale, The Torture of Hope, he even recounts the plot to underline his point:a hapless victim of the Inquisition escapes his prison cell only to stumble into the arms of the Chief Inquisitor. The lesson for Michael is that, like the victim, he keeps on hoping for release only to suffer defeat over and over again. There are no similarities, however, between himself and the sadistic Inquisitor, Kelly says: his mission is to ease Michael'ssuffering, not to prolong it.

We are given no reason to doubt Kelly’s sincerity, but neither can we reconcile the apparent contradiction between his declared intention and putting Michael’s best friend before a firing squad. If Kelly wants to end all suffering, as he says, surely, a good start would be to save Captain Tregarthen’s life? It is the argument that Michael himself is trying to make, by reminding Kelly of his god-like powers. Michael’s understanding of those powers differs fundamentally from Kelly’s own. Michael’s life-affirming principle of hope and Kelly’s seductive all-consuming fatalism are the two opposing philosophies that take centre stage in the final scene – while John Tregarthen dies a largely symbolic death offstage.

Johnny’s death is symbolic in that it is not the tragedy at the heart of the play. Michael O’Riordon is the conventional male protagonist whose existential crisis we are witnessing; Michael is unable to prevent the execution of his best friend; and to make that very point, his best friend must die. Michael’s blindness contributes to this failure in the course of the play but read as a metaphor it turns Michael into “one of us.” His blindness leaves him vulnerable to attack and it echoes our own sense of powerlessness in the face of an overwhelmingly hostile universe. The reverse, however, is also true: being blind, and being a poet, puts Michael in the illustrious company of the Blind Bard, an archetype of Western literature since at least the (mythical) time of Homer: the blind singer/seer whose “inner vision” surpasses that of sighted humanity. His Irish equivalent – and explicit model for Michael - is the (dwarf) Harper of Finn, whose iron-stringed instrument has the power to move its audience to tears. Michael O’Riordon is both vulnerable and endowed with the superpower of emotional insight – fundamentally human qualities that Kelly admires in Michael, and which he admits he does not possess.

Kelly is an abstract concept in human form; even while he is evidently the cause of human suffering, in his denial he appears to be channelling the sadistic Inquisitor. The apparent contradiction is of our own making, though: Kelly is Cruel Fate personified. He represents that which we like to imagine as the source of all our woes - the betrayals, the injustices, the disappointments which inevitably end in what we define as tragedy and what to the rest of the universe, that hostile universe, is of no consequence whatsoever. If we substitute “hostile” with “indifferent,” then Kelly becomes the antithesis to Michael’s humanity – his indifference is as inhuman as the infinite, indifferent universe. Conversely, Michael is not concerned with an infinite universe; his frame of reference is on a human scale, and very finite. When Kelly challenges Michael to take his place and adopt his abstract, God-like perspective on life, death, and the universe, Michael does reject the responsibility – but also the indifference required for the position. If the promise of a pain-free existence did not convince Michael to abandon hope, Kelly's failure to shame him into admitting defeat is a testament, at the very least, to human perseverance: we will forever be prolonging the agony to delay the inevitable. (1/4)

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Sunday, January 19, 2024 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: THE HUNTING PARTY (CityTV) 7:00pm

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

AMAZON PRIME CANADA MOMMY

GRAND SLAM OF CURLING (SN) 12:00pm: Masters - Men’s Final (SN) 4:30pm: Masters - Women's Final

PWHL HOCKEY (TSN3) 1:00pm: Charge vs. Victoire

NHL HOCKEY (TSN5) 3:00pm: Sens vs. Devils (TSN2) 7:00pm: Rangers vs. Habs (SN) 8:00pm: Red Wings vs. Stars

NFL FOOTBALL (TSN/TSN4/TSN5) 3:30pm: Divisional Round - Rams vs. Eagles (TSN/TSN4) 6:30pm: Divisional Round - Ravens vs. Bills

NBA BASKETBALL (SN1) 6:00pm: Nuggets vs. Magic (SN1) 9:00pm: Lakers vs. Clippers

2025 AUSTRALIAN OPEN TENNIS (TSN3/TSN5) 7:00pm: Round of 16

THE GREAT BRITISH BAKING SHOW (CBC) 7:00pm: Proofing makes perfect as contestants mix and knead their dough into cottage loaves, cream-and-jam Devonshire splits and artfully braided centerpieces.

CRIME BEAT (Global) 7:00pm: 'Die Like the Rest' Part 2

FAMILY LAW (Global) 8:00pm: Abby represents an environmental activist whose devotion to the cause might cost him custody of his children; an ill-advised meeting with old flame Crystal Steele lands Harry in trouble with the Law Society.

WARDENS OF THE NORTH (CTV Wild) 8:00pm: A hunter who mistakenly takes down an antlered elk must face the consequences; a warden must come down hard on an ORV hunter who is skirting the law; a warden investigates a hunter on private property.

SKYMED (CBC) 9:00pm: A film crew follows the team, causing tension; Stef and Chopper handle a tough call and must break protocol, creating more stress for the group.

WHEN CALLS THE HEART (Super Channel Heart & Home) 9:00pm: Elizabeth and Nathan uncover Oliver's secret; Rosemary worries Lee has a secret of his own; Allie's interest is piqued when Earl Wyatt returns to town.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN WRECKERS (CTV) 10:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): A semi bursts into flames, pushing Jesse and crew to make an urgent recovery; Mountain Recovery fights to free a jackknife during a big storm.

THE CURSE OF OAK ISLAND (History Channel Canada) 10:00pm: After more than a dozen years of searching, the team may have discovered the legendary Chappell Vault.