#Canadian society

[gregor-samsung]

All My Puny Sorrows (Michael McGowan, 2021)    

[fandom-queen-13]

rank the fanfic websites (part 1)

PLEASE REBLOG THIS, I WANT A LARGER AUDIENCE

[thepastisalreadywritten]

12 June 2024

Wreck hunters have found the ship on which the famous polar explorer Ernest Shackleton made his final voyage.

The vessel, called "Quest," has been located on the seafloor off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

Shackleton suffered a fatal heart attack on board on 5 January 1922 while trying to reach the Antarctic.

And although Quest continued in service until it sank in 1962, the earlier link with the explorer gives it great historic significance.

The British-Irish adventurer is celebrated for his exploits in Antarctica at a time when very few people had visited the frozen wilderness.

"His final voyage kind of ended that Heroic Age of Exploration, of polar exploration, certainly in the south," said renowned shipwreck hunter David Mearns, who directed the successful search operation.

"Afterwards, it was what you would call the scientific age. In the pantheon of polar ships, Quest is definitely an icon," he told BBC News.

The remains of the ship, a 38m-long schooner-rigged steamship, were discovered at the bottom of the Labrador Sea on Sunday by a team led by The Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS).

Sonar equipment found it in 390m (1,280ft) of water. The wreck is sitting almost upright on a seafloor that has been scoured at some point in the past by the passing of icebergs.

The main mast is broken and hanging over the port side, but otherwise, the ship appears to be broadly intact.

Quest was being used by Norwegian sealers in its last days. Its sinking was caused by thick sea-ice, which pierced the hull and sent it to the deep.

The irony, of course, is this was the exact same damage inflicted on Shackleton's Endurance - the ship he used on his ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917.

Fortunately, the crews of both Endurance, in 1915, and Quest, in 1962, survived.

Indeed, many of the men who escaped the Endurance sinking signed up for Shackleton's last polar mission in 1921-1922, using Quest.

His original plan had been to explore the Arctic, north of Alaska, but when the Canadian government withdrew financial support, the expedition headed south in Quest to the Antarctic.

The new goal was to map Antarctic islands, collect specimens and look for places to install infrastructure, such as weather stations.

Shackleton never made it, however, struck down by heart failure in the Port of Grytviken on the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia, the last stop before reaching the White Continent. He was just 47 years old.

After his death, Quest was involved in other important expeditions, including the 1930-31 British Arctic Air Route Expedition led by British explorer Gino Watkins, who himself tragically died aged 25 while exploring Greenland.

Quest was also employed in Arctic rescues and served in the Royal Canadian Navy during WWII, before being turned over to the sealers.

The RCGS team members carried out extensive research to find Quest's last resting place.

Information was gathered from ship's logs, navigation records, photographs, and documents from the inquiry into her loss.

The calculated sinking location in the Labrador Sea was pretty much spot on, although the exact co-ordinates are being held back for the time being.

A second visit to the wreck, possibly later this year, will do a more complete investigation.

"Right now, we don't intend to touch the wreck. It actually lies in an already protected area for wildlife, so nobody should be touching it," associate search director Antoine Normandin said.

"But we do hope to go back and photograph it with a remotely operated vehicle, to really understand its state."

Alexandra Shackleton is the explorer's granddaughter and was patron to the RCGS survey.

"I was thrilled, really excited to hear the news; I have relief and happiness and a huge admiration for the members of the team," she told BBC News.

"For me, this represents the last discovery in the Shackleton story. It completes the circle."

The explorer continues to spark interest more than a century after his death.

Hundreds of people visit his grave on South Georgia every year to pay their respects to the man known by his crews simply as "The Boss."

"Shackleton will live forever as one of the greatest explorers of all time, not just because of what he achieved in exploration but for the way he did it, and the way he looked after his men," said David Mearns.

"His story is timeless and will be told again and again; and I'm just one of many disciples who'll keep telling it for as long as I can."

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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE FRGS FRSGS (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic.

He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A British Columbia lawyer alleged to have submitted bogus case law “hallucinated” by an AI chatbot is now facing both an investigation from the Law Society of B.C. and potential financial consequences.

Earlier this month, it was revealed that lawyer Chong Ke allegedly used ChatGPT to prepare legal briefs in a family law case at B.C. Supreme Court.

In reviewing the submissions, lawyers for the opposing side discovered that some of the cases cited in the briefs did not, in fact, exist.

Those lawyers are now suing Ke for special costs in the case.

Full article

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[khaohomies]

Man, I loveee these boats!

[indelen]

Given that in the books series Lockwood's last name is probably a reference to the narrator burdened by supernatural experiences in "Wuthering Heights",

And given that Kipps's last name is probably a reference to the narrator burdened by supernatural experiences in "The Woman in Black",

I submit to the approval of the Tumblr Midnight Society that Celia Lockwood's maiden name should be Celia Harker.

[keptalivebymagic]

I love you, secondhand bookstores. I love you, $5 mass market paperbacks with creased spines. I love you, young adult hardcover in excellent condition for $12.

[wheresurboytonighthelookslikeenj]

there's a certain misery in watching a cop show trying to be progressive prevented from ever reaching that goal by its very nature; an irony not only in the show itself, as it is built upon the oppression it tries to comment on and therefore restricted in whatever message it attempts to convey by the established status quo being unable to be changed, but in the viewer, who continues to watch and even hope despite knowing the show can never reach the ideals it presents. i am tantalus in the pool. a tragedy worthy of the greeks.

[oldshowbiz]

1972.

Alan Stang, editor of the John Birch Society magazine American Opinion, claimed Canada was a Communist dictatorship run by homosexuals.

[gregor-samsung]

All My Puny Sorrows (Michael McGowan, 2021)  

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is “Prove all things and hold fast that which is good” and of the other “Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old.”

- William Osler

Osler, a Canadian physician and one of the founding professors of the John Hopkins hospital in Baltimore, was playing on words from what was written in the bible, 1 Thessalonians 5:21: “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.“

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[deinony]

What do you guys even know about Honeymoon Suite........ my April Wine... my Loverboy.... Crosby Stills Nash & Young....

[allthecanadianpolitics]

"One of the most significant archaeological digs in Manitoba's history is exposing a key element of Indigenous history, but the group heading the project says it's also scraping to stay afloat due to chronic under funding by the province.

The Manitoba Archaeological Society has been forced in recent years to cut its only paid staff member and abandon its office. Everything is now stored in the vacant office of a three-bay car wash in the small southwestern Manitoba town of Virden.

"My car wash has a wonderful curated collection of Aboriginal artifacts, but they should be in museums," said Alicia Gooden, the society's president and owner of the car wash.

"They should be displayed properly and stored properly," she said. "Same with our records — I've got 60-year-old amazing records just sitting in boxes."

Gooden's is not an isolated story, said Gordon Goldsborough, head researcher and past-president of the Manitoba Historical Society.

"They [government] say they want to support heritage but they really don't put their money where their mouth is.""

Full article

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[coochiequeens]

I may not like her views on repatriating remains from indigenous cultures, but she is right about this  "There's no such thing as a nonbinary skeleton,".

ACalifornia anthropology professor claims an upcoming panel she was set to speak on about the importance of sex differences in the study of anthropology was canned by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA). In a letter to the panelists, the organizations explained that, although they had initially approved the panel — titled "Let's Talk About Sex, Baby: Why biological sex remains irreplaceably relevant to anthropological analysis" — they'd eventually determined it could "cause harm to members represented by the Trans and LGBTQI of the anthropological community as well as the community at large." On Tuesday, panelists issued a public response arguing in part that their discussion would have highlighted the importance of distinguishing between biological sex and gender identity— and that determining both in skeletal remains was an important part of identifying them. Dr. Elizabeth Weiss, a professor of anthropology at San Jose State University and one of the panelists, posted the response on her website under the title "Discussing sex is no longer allowed at Anthropology conferences." According to the panelists, some anthropologists have questioned the importance of identifying sex differences in skeletal remains, arguing that ancient cultures had a different understanding and conception of gender and sex than we do, and in some cases did not distinguish between the two.

"Our panel description, written by Kathleen Lowrey, acknowledges that not all anthropologists need to differentiate between sex and gender," the panelists wrote.

.Elizabeth Weiss is among the panelists who say they were told they can no longer hold a panel on the importance of sex differences in anthropological research in an upcoming conference

In August of last year, Weiss wrote a column titled "There's no such thing as a nonbinary skeleton," in which she argues that "trans activists" in the archaeological community are "trying to erase the reality of biological sex in the present by erasing it in the past. They want to make it look as if the natural human condition is nonbinary." The AAA and CASCA originally approved the talk in July after it was reportedly reviewed by program chairs. The panel discussion was scheduled to take place at an annual meeting of anthropologists being held in Toronto in November.

"Going forward, we will undertake a major review of the processes associated with vetting sessions at our annual meetings and will include our leadership in that discussion," the AAA and CASCA wrote. On her website, Weiss frequently rails against "cancel culture radicals" and says that she has faced multiple attempts at cancellation, while also joking about the "pronouns" used by ancient humans whose skeletons have been dug up. In September 2021, she received pushback from fellow anthropologists and her own school for posting a photo of her posing with a Native American skull. Her university's anthropology department eventually condemned the photo and issued new prohibitions on video and photography of Native American remains. Weiss has also frequently spoken out against repatriating remains from indigenous cultures, telling NBC Bay Area in May that she "would have no problem with" scientists digging up her ancestors' remains for research purposes.

[fantasiawandering]

There is now a Canadian Covid Society

This is actually huge. The three leading causes of death in Canada are heart disease, cancer, and COVID (and the latter increases the first two). We have a Heart and Stroke Foundation. We have a Canadian Cancer Society. So a group of professionals finally figured out, hey, we need an organization to cover the third one.

Lots more info here: https://canadahealthwatch.ca/2024/03/06/introducing-the-canadian-covid-society-because-it-is-needed