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Hiking Journal: The West Coast Trail

Day IV: The Tideshelf Tango

August 31

Walbran Creek to Cribs Creek

Blisters and Bliss calls walking along the shoreline a "Beach Boogie." I prefer the Tideshelf Tango. Sand is certainly nicer to walk than the inland forest trails— no mud, no roots, and straight wide bays means travelling at a multiple of the speed of the inland route. But sand shifts, while tidal flats— what a great way to walk up the coast!

Flat as a sidewalk, holding only sheets of water as shallow as bootsoles. Shale layers and barnacles keep the surface grippy when wet, and in the fissures of deeper tidewater, crabs skitter and minnows dart among anemone that range in size from dimes to dinner plates.

Leaving camp we had to wade Walbran Creek to reach our beach route. The sun was already shining hot on the open sand. Dressed down to shorts, water shoes, and a light collared sun shirt, there was a tropical, piratical feel to the creek crossing and subsequent tideshelf tango around tree-topped flowerpot headlands.

At Bonilla Point there’s a lovely campsite and waterfall pool where I stripped to shorts and took a cool shower in the falls.

Carmanah Point campground is pretty too. F—— and S——- stopped there as we pressed on. Carmanah Point Lighthouse watches over the wide arc of white sand here. Sun glittered off of perfectly curling waves.

The remains of Nytom are an interesting spot to stop for lunch. Peter Nytom (renamed Knighton at residential school) married Monique, a white Montrealer, in the late 80s, and the couple moved back to the traditional home of Peter's family in 1991. On maps the area beneath Carmanah Point along this beach is Ditidaht First Nation, but Peter asserted total independence when he and Monique built their little shack below the sweeping lighthouse beam. Peter called their land Quabadiwa. Hikers enjoying their hospitality called it Chez Monique. The shack grew into an unregulated restaurant, serving burgers to hungry trekkers. The establishment survived Monique's death but not Peter's. After his boat capsized on a supply run, Sandi Knighton maintained the restaurant part-time under the new name "Nytom"— increasingly part-time, with openings becoming rarer and rarer. There were signs of life when we stopped. The fence was aromatic fresh-cut cedar. Woodwork and beadmaking in process was visible on the burger stand counter. But we saw and heard not a peep of current human life.

Just past Nytom the trail climbs steeply and briefly up a tight notch into the clifftop Carmanah rainforest, home of famous skyscraper Sitka Spruce.

Carmanah is also a former Victoria-based folk-rock band (playing as Miina these days I think.)

Let's go walking through the forest / let's go waltzing with the trees

And that makes me think, what would bands named for other points along the trail sound like? Mostly they'd be pretty similar to Carmanah. Cullite, Walbran, Nitinaht, and so on. Bonilla sounds like bubblegum pop. Logan Creek and Owen Point sound like Nashville pop-country singers. Anything with too much of that west-coast ts root wouldn't play well in the States I think, so Tsusiat and Tsocowis may be out. Black River would be soulsy and Coal Creek would be gritty Appalachian bluegrass. Camper Bay might be right up by alley but I think may risk sounding too much like what people who don't like the Lumineers think the Lumineers sound like. If it was spelld as Camper Bae it'd be right out. Thrasher Cove, of course, would be pirate metal.

Emerging from the forest we visited the 1891 lighthouse grounds. Sadly this place is being automated by the Coast Guard overlords, so there will be no more fresh-baked cookies as we've heard mentioned. Pity, I think I could make a good lighthouse keeper. The Keeper we met seemed tired of having to deal with tourists, nut did set up a telescope for us to peer closer at the sea lion colony hauled out on an offshore rock. She also confirmed that the tides were okay for us to return to the beach down the steep stairs to the north. Beneath the lighthouse tower, a "Franknwhale" skeleton is made up of the washed-in bones of different species. A huge humpback (?) skull looks a bit funny on the disproportional orca body.

The pockmarked tideshelf north of Carmanah is a lunar landscape. It's not far from there to Cribs Creek and the camps. This may have been my favourite camp. It was still wonderfully warm, and we got set up with lots of daylight to spare. The Cribs themselves are a ridge of gently sloped rocks sheltering a wide pool of tidewater where seabirds congregate by the hundreds for a crabmeat feast. We would have our own feast at the Nitinaht Narrows Crabshack the next day.

My mood was much improved from the day before as I climbed onto the Cribs to watch the sun set at last totally uninhibited into the endless Pacific horizon. I waited for a green flash I never saw. I'll keep waiting.

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"Under such conditions, it is hardly surprising that the first, serious efforts to obtain the liberation of the [Communist] Hull internees, or even to improve the conditions of the internment, came from the wives and families of the internees. Six wives first tried to visit their men in Hull prison on September 21, 1941. Led by Jenny Freed, the women had hitchhiked from Montreal. A second group tried once again, still unsuccessfully, on October 19, 1941. Each time Major Green refused the women entry, although internees and wives were able to see and talk to each other from a distance. After the second, attempted ‘break-in’ by wives of the internees, Green installed a barbed wire fence  around the prison, so that men and women could not exchange written notes.

Nevertheless, Norman Freed still managed to get a letter secretly to Jenny, using the services of Freed’s lawyer, J.L. Cohen. Jenny then sent the letter to the Ottawa Citizen, so that the internees’ petition to Mackenzie King was published on October 18, 1941. 

Editor, Citizen:

The enclosed is a copy of a letter which the anti-fascists interned at Hull jail sent to the Prime Minister, and which I think would be of interest to your readers and all those interested in seeing that justice prevails in our country.

— MRS. NORMAN FREED, Toronto, Oct. 16, 1941.

September 10, 1941 The Right Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada.

Mr. Prime Minister:

At the Hull Jail, within sight of the Parliament Buildings across the Ottawa river, eighty anti-Fascist Canadians are being held in a concentration camp.

We have been denied our liberty, separated from our loved ones, and prevented from carrying out our duties as Canadian citizens, some of us for as  long as fifteen months, under the arbitrary powers granted the minister of Justice, the Right Honorable Ernest Lapointe, by the Defence of Canada Regulations.

Our appeals against this injustice have gone unheeded. At the hearings, no charges were presented that we were in any way guilty or even suspected of sabotage, spying, or subversive activity. The only excuses for our incarceration that have been presented to us have been that “representations have been made” that we had been members of the Communist party of Canada, or some other labour organization, or that we had associated with communists. The particulars supplied consisted of references to trade union and anti-fascist activities in the past, as far back as twenty years ago. The hearings constitute a recounting of crimes on our part, such as trying to improve the living standard of our fellow-Canadians, defending civil liberties, or urging the Canadian people to fight against fascism! Not one of our number has been charged with a single overt act; in not a single case has reason been shown why any should be imprisoned in the interest of the security of the state.

We have presented several petitions to the minister of Justice, declaring our loyalty to Canada, our support of the maximum war effort against the fascist states, our support of your government in all measures to carry the just war against fascism to victory, and our views in favour of democratic unity of the whole Canadian people to these ends. We do not know whether these petitions actually reached the minister, only that no action has so far been taken to affect our release.

Therefore, although we are aware of the multitudinous responsibilities that claim every minute of your time, we, nevertheless, take the liberty of addressing this appeal to you as the head of the state (sic), feeling that your personal intervention will serve to right these injustices…

Despite our physical isolation, we have never allowed our personal plight to spiritually separate us from the desires and aspirations of our fellow- Canadians and the world-wide struggle against fascism. We share with them all their trials and tribulations, and all their hopes and determination for victory.

We are aware that the turning point in the war is upon us, that the future is being decided on the battle fronts of Eastern Europe, that the glorious struggle waged by the U.S.S.R., its army and peoples, together with the people and armies of the British Commonwealth, in which Canada is participating, will determine the whole course and duration of the war, the security and freedom of all humanity, and of Canada herself. We know that it is exactly now, and in the momentous months to come, that our country is called upon to exert its utmost to bring victory.

We are convinced that the answer to Hitler’s and Mussolini’s totalitarian war is a democratic people’s war, uniting the anti-fascist forces both internationally and within each country against Nazi barbarism. Stern suppression of fascist groups and intrigues within the country, the greatest extension of democratic rights to the common people, determined struggle against war profiteering and exploitation on the part of selfish interests, the boldest rallying of the common people for fullest participation in both the production and military branches of the war effort— these are the guarantees of Canada’s full contribution to the epochal struggle which has engulfed the entire world…

We urge you, in the interests of the democratic war program, to use your office to order our release from the concentration camp, so that we could do our best in helping to rally the Canadian people to contribute together with ourselves, our all to the democratic war effort, to provide guns, tanks, planes and munitions to the armies of Britain, the U.S.S.R. and their allies, for all-out economic and military participation in the war to defeat Hitler Germany.

We hope that you will heed our appeal and assist our return to freedom, to our families, to our citizen duties as loyal Canadians.

On behalf of the imprisoned, anti-fascist Canadians,

Respectfully yours,

T. G. McMANUS Camp Spokesman

In punishment for the transgression of having smuggled out this letter, Major Green threw Freed and McManus into solitary confinement. In retaliation, the two men threatened to go on a hunger strike. Other internees stopped writing their wives, who then peppered the Justice Department with questions about their husbands. The Army was then obliged to order Green to end the solitary confinement of Freed and McManus."

- Michael Martin, The Red Patch: Political Imprisonment in Hull, Quebec during World War 2. Self-published, 2007. p. 176-182

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Power Game: Thomas Bach’s Iron Grip on the Olympics

Power Game: Thomas Bach’s Iron Grip on the Olympics

The building blocks of Bach’s career were formed on the fencing piste. Winning a gold medal with the West German team at the 1976 Montreal Olympics supplied him with a priceless, lifelong credential. Watching his country join the boycott of the 1980 Games in Moscow awakened him to the mazy, magnetic tensions between sports and politics. And some have theorized that his mastery of fencing’s core…

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Power Game: Thomas Bach’s Iron Grip on the Olympics

Power Game: Thomas Bach’s Iron Grip on the Olympics

The building blocks of Bach’s career were formed on the fencing piste. Winning a gold medal with the West German team at the 1976 Montreal Olympics supplied him with a priceless, lifelong credential. Watching his country join the boycott of the 1980 Games in Moscow awakened him to the mazy, magnetic tensions between sports and politics. And some have theorized that his mastery of fencing’s core…

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May 2018

The scent of lilac blossoms, especially in the late evening on a walk through the neighbourhood. Still some light over the horizon, moon and stars visible.                                                                                               

Going hiking along the Isar with Lena. Seeing some kind of leopard snail, stealing lilac from behind a fence, riding my pastel-coloured bicycles. A jazz band playing in the beergarden. Eating a crêpe with Nutella. Talking. Walking. Even though my hip hurt.

That dude, Sebastian, who made a mock birthday invitation for me based on my favourites. I ended up with a Six Feet Under party - “Die 20er zu Grabe tragen”. With an all-you-can-eat ramen buffet and Bilderbuch as the live act.

Barcelona. It was so nice with our small group of students. The weather was ok-ish and all in all it felt pretty much like a normal vacation - thanks to Nicole’s good organisation and preparation. The best thing is that I’m going to get all the money back I advanced. Definitely gonna try and organise trips for next year, too!

Meeting José, a very handsome and funny guide at the Picasso museum. I transformed into a creepy stalker back at home and found him on FB, just to send him a message. You know, about the students thinking he was very nice and all. Ha. Alas, he has a girlfriend. But boy was he cute.

Meeting Carina from Montreal at the Barceloneta beach. I took care of her bag while she went in for a swim and afterwards we started talking. Before we said goodbye she made me draw an Angel Card out of a little cotton bag. It said Gratitude - apparently something I need to work on.

Watching the soap bubbles pop in the air. Lying at the beach instead of attending parent-teacher-conference.

Seeing the inside of Sagrada Familia for the first time. Those stained-glass windows are amazing. They create a very special mood of the light. Also, I found a small round window with my name on it.

That woman passionately kissing a man in a wheelchair in the middle of a Spanish airport. They were paying attention to nobody else, only seeing each other.

Discovering the natura store at the airport.

My new black suede handbag with pearls, sequins and embroidery. It looks like an abstract painting.

Charlotte Roche: Verlasst die Städte

Making tiny rainbows in the air with the garden hose.

How Do We Break the Stereotypes We’ve Created for Ourselves?

Drawing two protest signs for the Anti-PAG demonstration. Unfortuntately I had to explain the terms 1984 and Gilead to a whole lot of guys… geez, people should read more.

Manchego and Green Olive tortilla chips.

The last days with Effi Biest.

Grading English tests outside on the balcony.

My 30th birthday! Somehow I didn’t manage to throw a party and the Isar picnic is probably not gonna happen either but I still had a very special day. Nicole put balloons on my desk at school and gave me a lot of small presents which showed how much she listens to me (roasted corn, dark chocolate, a lemon - even the ‘art teacher necklace’ we saw at the Picasso gift shop in Barcelona; she made a student buy it without me noticing). Also, she made some students organise a scavenger hunt for me!! I got some chocolates from the kids, wore bright red lipstick and a new embroidered shirt dress. In the afternoon I sold my car. Finally. I didn’t get much but it’s gonna pay for my flight tickets in summer. Then I spent the evening with Manu - we had pizza and later shots at his place. Kind of a blind date but it was a good decision.

Being alone in a subway train.

Discovering the Beirut Beirut restaurant near Implerstraße. Sitting outside in the sunshine on a Friday afternoon, reading a book, enjoying Lebanese food and the beautiful surroundings.

Reading Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan. I loved the technical knowledge it gave me about diving and the castaways. Lately I’m super interested in old war stories and everything connected to the ocean or faraway places.

Arriving at BluLagoon after spending a whole day on planes. Our villa was amazing. Don’t let me get started on the view and the fact that there were hardly any guests at the time.

Listening to music on our terrace, dancing in a weird way (more like 80’s aerobic class).

Diving. I found my passion. I liked David, the diving instructor, very much (always hot for teacher) and apparently I’ve got a “talent” for diving, too (I mean, at least I don’t panic and have no problem with breathing under water). It was so interesting to learn about the tide, the animals, everything, you know? My first dive in the ocean was magical. It’s like a whole other planet down there. I even saw a dolphin on my very first day. Turtles, puffer fish (my favourite), an octopus.

Pookie the (racist) dog! (He doesn’t bark at Westerners, only Indonesians)

A small hike to White Sand Beach.

Finding out that I actually do like tempeh.

Going to Nusa Lembongan/Ceningan was an excellent idea. Diving there was amazing and I felt very happy around Anang, Simone and Pascal. The islands are beautiful - the waves and the cliffs, breathtaking. I also learned to ride a scooter! Driving over Yellow Bridge between the two islands was priceless. Going on the swings during low tide, Paradise Beach, discovering a popular warung by accident. Having Australians open our Bintang Radlers for us. Collecting corals at Mushroom Beach. Taking the speed boat back to Bali. What an adventure.

Swimming in an infinity pool under the full moon in front of a jungle scenery. That’s Ubud. Watching the little squirrels jumping from tree to tree while having breakfast on the balcony. Being lucky enough to be there during Galungan, a very important Balinese holiday. There were pejors lining the streets and people in traditional clothes on their way to their families and village temples. We met a driver while we were looking for the waterfalls. He took us to the Tegalalang Rice Terrace and answered all of our questions about Balinese culture like official languages, rooster fights or the school system. At the organic farm we saw Luwaks and tried different kinds of coffee. After we had said goodbye we took the Ridge Walk back into Ubud. On our way we ate some vegan coconut ice-cream, met a kitty and of course we found a swing, too. Swings are everywhere in Bali. I loved the one between Nusa Ceningan and Lembongan. And the one at the rice terrace even though you had to pay for it. In the evening we walked through Monkey Forest right before closing time - the animals were pretty relaxed because they had just gotten their dinner - and witnessed a gorgeous red sunset on our way home.

Our scooter trip to the Elephant Cave temple (I got such a calm, spiritual feeling in that cave - it must be such an awe-struck experience to sit in there alone in complete darkness for prayer or meditation) and Bali Bird Park. Eating at a Muslim restaurant because all the others were closed for Galungan. Weird chocolate and green tea shaved ice. And all those birds. I fell in love with the Kakadus. Such lovely little fellas. It was crazy expensive (for Balinese standards) but definitely worth it.

Starting our first night in Canggu at Moana with a plate of delicious fish appetizers. A friendly hosts and a very helpful Australian neighbour who supplied me with band-aids and skin antibiotic. Hipster-watching at Crate (we went there twice because their breakfast is in fact spectacular). Surfer-watching at the beach. Bintangs at sunset. Marvelling at the waves. Swimming all the way back to the shore after drifting far out with the tide without noticing (all the practice in the pool paid off). Discovering Gelato Secrets on our scooter trip to Tanah Lot. Daring to use the infamous Canggu shortcut - it was way more scary on foot than with the scooter. Our Vinyasa Flow yoga class and the Balinese full body massage at The Chillhouse. Cheap warungs with delicious food. I could be sad now but in fact I’ve already got tickets to Australia and Indonesia for August so there’s something to look forward to!

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Scanners: The Sci-Fi Horror Movie That Changed David Cronenberg’s Career

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This article contains spoilers for the ending of Scanners.

Scanners was the fifth commercially released feature film (and seventh overall) directed by David Cronenberg, the independent Canadian auteur who initially made a name for himself as a director of visceral, provocative horror films such as Shivers, Rabid, and The Brood. Released 40 years ago on January 14, 1981, Scanners was a turning point for Cronenberg in many ways: it edged away from the sexually tinged “body horror” of his first few films and into the realms of sci-fi, action, and conspiracy thriller, while adding advanced visual effects and an overall polish to the director’s clinical esthetic.

Although none of his films up to that point had achieved any sort of mainstream success outside Canada, Scanners was a breakthrough for Cronenberg: his most expensive film to date (with a budget of $4 million), it was his first to also earn decent money in the lucrative North American market. Scanners briefly topped the Variety box office chart the week it opened, making it Cronenberg’s first Number One movie in the U.S. and the first Canadian film to hit the top spot.

Despite its modest success — which opened the door for future Cronenberg classics like Videodrome, The Dead Zone and his masterpiece, The Fly — Scanners was a difficult film for the director to make. 

“It was physically exhausting,” Cronenberg told Fangoria magazine in a 1981 feature. “Very hard, very long hours…It was also very demanding because we had so little pre-production time, it was my biggest budget, my longest shoot — it turned out to be about nine weeks — but I only had about two weeks for all the pre-production, which is ridiculous. And I had only written one first-draft script, which took me three weeks to write. That meant a lot of things weren’t together.”

The origin of Scanners goes back to Cronenberg’s earliest days as a filmmaker and his 1969 directorial debut, Stereo. That film was set in a bizarre institute where sexual experimentation was used to develop the telepathic powers of a group of subjects. The idea of humans evolving into telepaths ending up as the seed of two more scripts that Cronenberg wrote, titled The Sensitives and Telepathy 2000, both of which eventually morphed into Scanners.

Cronenberg admitted to Fangoria that Scanners was “quite different” from his previous films and their obsessions with psychosexuality and bodily mutation. 

“Those dynamics are not what make it work, in fact they’re almost not there at all,” he said. “What does lay behind the film is a fantasy, I think a very powerful one, that I suppose starts as a child’s fantasy. You go to sleep weak, and wake up finding that, in fact, you are strong. Someone says to you, ‘Not only are you not weak, you are stronger than you ever imagined’ — that’s one of the premises of the film, though it doesn’t come out exactly that way.”

Scanners takes place in the near future and opens in a shopping mall food court, where a woman is struck by an unexplained seizure after she is caught staring at a homeless man. That man is named Cameron Vale (Stephen Lack) and he is soon captured by agents of a private military company called ConSec. At ConSec headquarters, a scientist named Dr. Paul Ruth (Patrick McGoohan of The Prisoner fame) explains to Vale that he is one of 247 people known as “scanners,” humans with advanced telepathic and psychokinetic abilities.

Lack, who was an artist in Montreal’s bohemian scene when he met Cronenberg (and mostly gave up acting after Scanners to focus on a career as a painter), said in an interview on the 2014 Criterion Collection Blu-ray release of the film that he was intrigued by Cronenberg’s vision: “He handed me the script, and I sort of thought I understood it.” 

He elaborated in an interview that same year with Film Comment: “The film itself was groundbreaking, but I never realized it at the time. I had faith in David. I sensed his intelligence and I know from myself that the good stuff takes a while to understand.”

Since he is a telepath, Vale is driven insane by the cacophony of others’ thoughts constantly inside his head; Ruth gives him a drug called Ephemerol that blocks those voices and allows Vale to refine his scanner abilities. Ruth sends Vale underground to find Darryl Revok (Michael Ironside), the leader of a rogue group of scanners who is killing anyone — including other scanners — who stands in the way of his mysterious plans. 

Eventually aided by another scanner named Kim Obrist (Jennifer O’Neill), Vale tracks down Revok only to find that Revok has actually been looking for him all along. Vale learns that Revok plans to create a new race of scanners to rule over humans, while also discovering the truth about Ruth, the true nature of Ephemerol — and the connection between himself and his enemy Revok.

“When I did Scanners, I was only hired to do the black and white flashback sequence,” Michael Ironside (whose other major genre credits include Total Recall and Starship Troopers) told Den of Geek recently. “And (Cronenberg) said, ‘I’m thinking of rearranging the script a little and bringing you in more.’ So when I was on Scanners I literally got scenes sometimes the night before, sometimes two days before, because he was rewriting the script as we went. A very bold thing for a storyteller to do… only somebody like David, who is so deft at what he does, so good at what he does, could do that because you can really get yourself in a hole.”

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The reason Cronenberg was literally writing Scanners as he went along — an unsettling change of pace for a director who usually prepared his material meticulously — was due to the nature in which the film was funded. A company called Filmplan International supplied the budget through Canadian tax incentives — but the catch was that the money had to be spent and the movie shot before the end of the year. While that ended up providing Cronenberg with an additional nine months of post-production, it meant that he had two weeks to get the film going — and did not have a finished script ready.

“But it had to be done, so I found myself writing on the set, writing at lunch instead of eating, writing evenings, writing weekends,” he told Fangoria. “Then we had to juggle the schedule to make scenes that weren’t ready, in terms of special effects and sets, happen later in the shooting, which you don’t have to do if you’re prepared. So in production terms it was very difficult.”

Both Cronenberg and Lack recalled that the first day of shooting was marked by a horrible tragedy: as the production crew prepared to shoot alongside a highway, a man driving by in a truck was distracted by the filming and plowed into the back of a Toyota in front of him. “I turned around in time to see his truck climb on top of this little Toyota,” Cronenberg told interviewer Chris Rodley in the book Cronenberg on Cronenberg. “Our grips had to jump the fence and drag these two women out of the car and lay them on the verge. Dead. It was hideous. Everybody was just shocked and depressed.”

Special makeup effects artist Chris Walas — who later worked with Cronenberg on The Fly — recalled on the Criterion Blu-ray that the production of Scanners was chaotic when he joined. 

“I flew from Los Angeles to Montreal, where the production was already in gear and they were moving ahead quite rapidly,” he explained. “It was sort of a descent into madness for me, because Scanners was a very hectic production. There was a lot of spontaneity and changes David was having to accommodate for a lot of production pressures that were forced upon him. I was really taken aback when I saw how crazy the picture was going, but he wasn’t just a director who could handle the pressure, he was a director who still had his vision through all this insanity.”

One of the tests that Cronenberg faced was handling his “name” stars, Jennifer O’Neill and Patrick McGoohan. According to Cronenberg on Cronenberg, O’Neill was taken aback by the violence in the film after being sent a script by the producers from which the bloodshed had been omitted. Meanwhile, the famously complicated McGoohan presented the director with an entirely different challenge.

“He’s a brilliant actor,” Cronenberg told Chris Rodley. “The voice, the charisma, the presence, the face. Phenomenal…But he was so angry. His self-hatred came out as anger against everybody and everything. He said to me, ‘If I didn’t drink, I’d be afraid I’ll kill someone.’” 

But Cronenberg also admitted that he didn’t think McGoohan had confidence in the project or his director: “He didn’t know me. He didn’t know whether I could bring it off or not. We parted from the film not on very good terms ultimately.”

The other great hurdle facing Cronenberg, his cast and crew on Scanners were the ambitious makeup effects. While much of the film is devoted to action, chases, and gunplay, Scanners is remembered for two classic sequences: a scene early in the film in which Revok causes the head of another scanner to explode during a demonstration of scanning, and a climactic telepathic battle between Vale and Revok that features swelling, bursting veins on both men’s arms and faces, eyes erupting from heads, and one of the two powerful scanners going up in flames.

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The exploding head — the iconic image most associated with the film — was a plaster and gelatin duplicate of the head of actor Louis Del Grande that was filled with corn syrup (for blood), scraps of latex, wax, “a lot of stringy stuff,” and apparently even some leftover burgers. But according to a featurette on the Criterion Blu-ray, the initial plan to detonate the head with explosives wasn’t working. So special effects supervisor Gary Zeller, after telling everyone to get clear, lay down behind the head, pointed a shotgun filled with kosher salt at it and blew the thing up from the rear.

“It’s an incredible shot,” said the director in Cronenberg on Cronenberg. “Incredibly gruesome, but also quite beautiful.” The producers were so worried that the scene would land the film an X rating that they wanted to shoot a less gory version. “I said, ‘Sure, go ahead,’” remembered Cronenberg. “They shot three more heads blowing up in various ways, but I wasn’t there to watch them. I just went back to my Winnebago and took a nap. I wasn’t interested. I had the one I wanted.”

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As Scanners comes to a close, Vale is captured by Revok and learns a bitter truth: the two of them are brothers, and Dr. Ruth — killed earlier in the film — is their father. Ruth gave their mother a prototype version of Ephemerol, meant as a tranquilizer for pregnant women, and discovered the unintended side effect that it turned humans into scanners — with his sons becoming the most powerful of them all.

After Vale refuses to help Revok with his plan to create a new race of scanners and subjugate humanity, the two engage in a vicious telepathic battle that literally tears them apart. As originally shot, the scene didn’t work, so Cronenberg reshot it — this time with the aid and expertise of legendary makeup artist Dick Smith, who had been serving as an off-set consultant for the film but came to Montreal to lend his genius to the final battle.

“Some of the effects that we wanted just didn’t work well enough, we really hadn’t worked them out in enough detail to make it work,” Cronenberg told Fangoria. Realizing that he “had no ending,” Cronenberg convinced the producers to use money set aside for a Dolby sound mix to reshoot the ending instead, this time with Smith there. “We were fortunate to have him come on the set at that time. Earlier I’d been quite disappointed that he couldn’t actually come up and work with us, so I was really thrilled, and it couldn’t have worked out better.”

Although Revok initially has the upper hand in the battle, Vale eventually prevails — but at the cost of his own body. He manages, however, to fuse his mind with Revok’s, creating a hybrid of the two that suggests Vale has defeated his brother. For Cronenberg, this could be considered an optimistic ending after the bleak outcomes of his previous pictures, although it still addresses the overriding themes of so much of his early career — the malleability of human flesh and thought, and how both can be manipulated by external or internal forces to take humanity in new and often bizarre directions.

Aside from The Fly’s lone sequel, Scanners was the only Cronenberg film to spawn a franchise of its own, a string of films that includes Scanners II: The New Order (1991), Scanners III: The Takeover (1992), Scanner Cop (1994) and Scanner Cop II: The Showdown (1995). The director had no involvement with any of those pictures, just as he has not been involved with a proposed remake that was in development in 2007 and a more recent (and now dormant) idea for a TV series based on the film.

Scanners remains an important touchstone in Cronenberg’s career. It was a moment in which he took both the peculiar philosophical concerns and body horror of his early work and pointed them in a slightly more commercial direction, while leaving his vision essentially uncompromised. It also remains a skillful, gripping fusion of horror, sci-fi and political/medical espionage thriller that resonates to this day.

“Scanners was a breakthrough film for me, because it was number one on the Variety chart when it came out,” Cronenberg says in Cronenberg on Cronenberg. “That was a big deal for a low-budget Canadian horror film, which is basically the way it was perceived…a lot of people in Hollywood started to notice me then.”

As for the evolution of his own filmmaking in Scanners, Cronenberg’s views are clear: 

“A complete filmmaker should be able to appeal to all facets of human existence, the sensual as well as the cerebral,” he muses in the book. “If you do get this mixture together properly���you have something that appeals to the intellect and to the viscera. If you mix them together you get a whole movie.” 

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Like his fused scanner siblings, David Cronenberg’s Scanners might well have been his first whole movie.

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Fence Supplies Montreal Can Supply Wholesale: Your Ultimate Fencing Solution

Fence supplies Montreal can supply wholesale options that are perfect for anyone looking to enhance their property with high-quality fencing. Whether you’re a homeowner, contractor, or DIY enthusiast, having access to wholesale supplies can save you time and money. Here’s why you should consider purchasing your fencing materials wholesale in Montreal.

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In November 1937, the Times of India (ToI) carried a curiously chilling report from the UK. With fears of war rising, and memories of the poison gas attacks of the previous war still vivid, “trials to see whether small children could wear gas masks in the event of an air raid were carried out…” The report explained how officials visited a children’s home called Babies Castle where 70 children, from babies to five years, were selected “by reason of their varying sizes of head” and given black rubber masks to play with. Nurses asked, “Who would like to wear one of these funny faces?” to get them to put them on.

This exercise proved the obvious points that children needed smaller masks and could be induced to wear them (though “babies cannot wear masks”). It was also an early sign of how face masks would become indispensable accessories of the modern age, whether worn for protection or fun or, as with those children, both reasons.

Face masks are omnipresent these days, most obviously because of coronavirus fears. Across the world face masks are being sold out, hoarded or sold at a premium. The Indian government briefly banned exports of masks. The Japanese government is giving subsidies for face mask manufacturers, while one leading company, Kawamoto, has seen its share price zoom by 479 per cent in one month.

One of the many ironies of this current epidemic is that China, which is the source of it, is also the source of most of the world’s face masks. This might seem a good fit of problem and solution, but as the virus spreads rapidly across the world it has made countries uncomfortably aware of their dependence on China for medical supplies. This epidemic is bound to lead to calls for better control over face mask supply and distribution. Meanwhile in China car companies are switching production from motors to masks.

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PROTEST MASKS Hong Kong is debating free distribution of face masks, which is particularly ironic since just a few months it tried banning the use of them in public. This is another side of the face mask boom – their use in political protests, as a way to avoid individual identification and punishment, and also to show solidarity with a larger cause. This has become so common that different types of protest masks can be identified, like Black Bloc, a simple black face covering, like a bandanna, or the stylised smiling Guy Fawkes masks of Anonymous.

The growth of surveillance and facial recognition technology, particularly in China, has made use of protests masks even more imperative. In October last year, Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive invoked a British era law to pass the Prohibition on Face Covering Regulation, which criminalises wearing a mask at even lawful protests with a year in jail and a HK$25,000 fine. The law was widely disobeyed, has been challenged in court and seems unlikely to be used when much of Hong Kong is wearing masks for medical reasons.

Hong Kong’s law is far from being an anomaly. There are many such laws across the world, and not just in authoritarian states. Western democracies like Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Italy and Germany all have laws banning facial coverings during protests. The reasons may vary, from Islamophobia to reactions to the violent student protests of the 1960s, and the laws may only rarely be enforced, but there is a clear sense that concealing one’s face is potentially threatening behaviour.

It is also true, of course, that face masks have always been used by criminals. A spate of rural robberies in 18th century Britain lead to what was called the Black Act in 1723, because the perpetrators blacked or concealed their faces. The law mandated the death penalty for doing this and while it was repealed in 1823, the thinking seems to have survived in the Hong Kong law. In India facial concealment during crimes is common – last year robbers looted 30 kg of jewellery from a Tiruchirapalli store while wearing cat and dog masks.

If masks have not featured much in current protests in India it might be because, in an interesting inversion, it is the governing party that has used mask most effectively. The Narendra Modi mask that was created by Manish Bharadia, was a subtle rebuke to the earlier Congress charge of Atal Bihari Vajpayee being the acceptable ‘mukhota’ of the much more radical Sangh, and it also helped make the politician into a brand.

Some of the most intense debates over face masks have taken place in Canada. When student protests’ against hikes in college fees rocked Quebec in 2012, the government passed a law banning face masks during protests, arguing that their use separated legitimate protestors from general miscreants. Montreal’s mayor, Gerald Tremblay summed it up: “When your cause is just and your intentions are good, why hide your face?”

In fact, as Jennifer B.Spiegel notes in her paper ‘Masked Protest in the Age of Austerity” such neat divisions didn’t work. The authorities clearly intended to find ways to fine and discourage individuals, and split the movement – but this required them to identify individuals first. The protestors responded with a carnival like explosion of face masks in all colours and forms. Some came only in face masks – but otherwise nearly nude. One protestor wore a full panda outfit, much like the costumed mascots that are part of sports events.

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Rituals masks

ENTERTAINMENT & RITUALS This nearly linked politics to the third reason for the popularity of face masks – their use in entertainment and the chance to have anonymous, liberating fun. This has always been a reason to use masks, particularly as part of the anarchic rulebending time of Carnival. During that period a poor person with a mask could pretend to enjoy the life – generally, meaning sex – of the rich, while the rich could get the thrill of slumming for a while.

The use of masks for ritual purposes is ancient. One of the oldest known specimens is a stone mask from over 7000 years back, probably from Palestine, and looking eerily like the smiley face emoji, except for its empty eyes. But masks were very likely known from far earlier, but haven’t survived because they were made with perishable materials. They would have helped priests perform the role of gods or demons in rituals.

Masks also came to be used for protective purposes, to protect the face from the cut and slash of swords. Death masks left in tombs were ways to remember those who had died, and perhaps ensure that their image lasted when the physical flesh of their faces had rotted away. During plagues masks were used from the belief that miasmas, or bad smells spread diseases, and these would at least have stopped airborne infections like today.

Some of these uses started diminishing with time – most formal religions dropped masks and guns made face masks for combat irrelevant (they survive in the sport of fencing). But as Michael Foley notes in his book Isn’t This Fun? Investigating the Serious Business of Enjoying Ourselves, this is lead to a new form of fun: “the masquerade, or masked ball, is an attempt by the rich and sophisticated to combine the hieratic power of the ritual mask with the transgressive carnival energy of the lower orders.”

Venice was particularly associated with Carnival masks – tourists still buy them by the thousands – and the idea of a Venetian masked ball was taken up by Western culture, and then across the world. Masked parties were a very popular entertainment during the British Raj in India, and in the USA they transmuted into the costumed chaos of Halloween. More recently, events like Burning Man, where participants descend in outrageous, carefully planned costumes, has reinvented the idea for the new millennium.

Artists and the entertainment industry have always been drawn to the many meanings of masked revelry. Verdi’s opera Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball) combines the idea with a plot to assassinate a king that was so controversial that the work in its original form was banned. The several Mask of Zorro films involve the idea of a masked hero battling an oppressive regime. Masked comic heros like Batman and Phantom reinvented the idea for a new art form.

Alexandre Dumas’ The Man in the Iron Mask drew on a historical legend of a masked prisoner linked to a king, and also to a tradition of keeping prisoners masked as a way to emphasise their vulnerability. But the power of masks means that this tends to work the other, with the example of the masked Hannibal Lector showing how masks work powerfully with horror films. The masked protagonist of the Phantom of the Opera shows another medical use of masks, to hide the horrors of facial disfigurement.

It was, perhaps, not a surprise that the advent of photography also saw a renewed interest in masks. When one’s face could be easily captured, the desire to avoid this grew. Similarly, the huge growth of social media in recent years, with all its incessant selfies and personal sharing, has created a desire for masked concealment. Phone filters now allow digital masks to be imposed easily. A whole genre of masked musicians has emerged, like Deadmau5 and Slipknot, that use the paradoxical power of masks both to conceal their identities and enhance their brands and masked mystique.

All these meanings of masks gained particular power from two events that concluded a 100 years back. The First World War resulted in a new demand for masks. Medical advances meant that many who would have died in the past survived, but badly disfigured, and masks were created to help them (plastic surgery would only develop during the Second World War). The eerie images of these masks, and the suffering that lay behind them, seem to have influenced many artists in the era between the wars.

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Protective masks

PROTECTIVE MASKS The use of poison gas had also required a new kind of protective mask. One of the first was developed by JS Haldane, the father of JBS Haldane, the scientist who came to India towards the end of his life and helped develop scientific institutions here. In Samanth Subramanian’s excellent new biography of the younger Haldane, A Dominant Character, he writes of how the father used the (very willing) son as a guinea pig, almost suffocating him from exposure to vapours as he perfected a practical gas mask that could absorb them.

These lead to a whole new type of protective masks, against bioweapons and radiation, all the terrible new creations of warfare. But it was the second event from 1918-1920 that links most closely to our virus driven demand. This was the great global influenza epidemic that is estimated to have killed far more people than died in the first World War – 17 million just in India, which was five per cent of our population at that time.

There had been global pandemics before, but this one was made worse by new transport systems, fuelled by the demands of war, and also by the fact that it was caused by a virus, a poorly understood entity at that time. Doctors wasted time looking for a bacterium, as in bubonic plague. By the time the airborne nature of the disease spreading was understood, millions had died.

In Pale Rider, Laura Spinney’s history of the epidemic she notes that by 1918 “the wearing of a layered gauze mask over the mouth was recommended – and in Japan this probably marked the beginning of the practice of mask-wearing to protect others from one’s own germs – but health officials disagreed as to whether the masks actually reduced transmission.”

It was only by 1920, when American cities implemented preventive measures that included mask wearing that their value was established. A hundred years on from then we are learning the value, and many meanings, of face masks all over again.

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“‘Hot Time’ Awaits Fugitive In Nazi Camp, Guards Say,” Toronto Star. August 23, 1940. Page 02. --- Prisoners’ Life Won’t Be So Easy - Tighten Up on Precautions ---- SET UP MORE GUNS ---- Prisoners in a Northern Ontario internment camp were awaiting today the arrival of Lieut. Guenther Lorentz, of the German navy. A ‘hot’ reception is in store for him, according to guards, because other prisoners regard him as a ‘double-crosser.’

Time of his arrival is being kept a strict secret. Military authorities don’t want any public demonstration, they said, when asked if they would reveal when he was expected back.

Under heavy R.C.M.P. guard, Lorentz arrived in Toronto today.

Identity Not Suspected Sandwiched between four Mounties in plain clothes, he marched unrecognized through the Union station. Outgoing passengers glanced curiously at the heavily guarded, smallish figure, but no one guessed he was the man whose escape had been the talk of Canada for four days.

He is not more than five feet, five or six inches, and is not dark, as described by authorities. He has long, blond hair brushed straight away from a high forehead. Weighing not more than 130 pounds, he is the exact opposite of the man for whom authorities said they were searching.

He was dressed in a rumple dark gray striped suit and blue striped tie, said to be the clothes he was wearing when he arrived here two months ago. His brown shoes were badly scuffed, indicating he had done considerable walking in his hike from the northern camp to Montreal.

Guards said they were now firmly convicted Lorentz ‘beat the gun’ on plans for a mass delivery of prisoners. The tunnel through which Lorentz dodged to liberty early Monday had been dug through the painstaking labor of scores and used by only one who snaked out without knowledge of the others, guards stated. He was caught Wednesday night at Montreal.

There are reports of changes in the camp administrative personnel. Stricter inspection of the compound is already being made, it is reported. The home guard must now make two trips through the grounds each day. Previously, their duty was to stop any unauthorized person from entering and ordering the German prisoners to keep at least three feet away from the fence.

Life may not be quite so easy in the camp because of the escape, it is reported. More machine-guns have been added and placed at vantage points.

Obey Or Take Consequences ‘There’ll be no fooling. If the Germans won’t do what we tell them, they will take the consequences,’ said one guard who was a prisoner in Germany in the last war. He claimed treatment in the German camps was worse than jail, and that often he and fellow-prisoners got only pieces of hard bread for meals.

The camp has a canteen for its internees. They are even able to buy cigarette in packages which are not subject to the excise tax, the same privilege as is granted men on active service. The purchases are made in Canadian money, it was stated, supplied through the international Red Cross. Thinks Canada Fine Country Lorentz thinks Canada is a ‘fine country’, it was revealed by Ottawa officials. Questioned by police, he was the height of candor. He said nobody on the outside helped him. Just a few friends inside.

When he got out he asked a man how to get to Toronto and was shown the Canadian system - thumbing. He got several rides by this simple method and found his chauffeurs friendly and agreeable.

Not having any money he asked a fellow he met if he could led him $2.50. ‘Sure thing,’ the man said, and fished right down in his pocket.

Lorentz speaks with a marked accent, but apparently no one was suspicious of him until he failed to produce his registration card. It is suggested that those on the lookout for him may have been confused by the report that he spoke perfect English.

When captured Lorentz had on his person a number of maps. He explained these simply. At a filling station he asked the attendant whether he could have some maps and the man said, ‘sure.’

A review of details of the escape indicates Lorentz was probably clear of the internment camp long before the search began and probably before his absence was noticed.

Until Lorentz was captured, the searchers and officials were unaware the fugitive was not Lieut. Werner Koche, for whom a nation-wide hue and cry had started.

Faces 28 Days Confinement The search in the camp district was finally abandoned about 20 hours after Lorentz was caught. Under international law, he faces disciplinary punishment of not more than 28 days’ confinement in the cells. Escape is not considered a criminal offence under the Geneva convention.

Officials say Lorentz freely related his experiences when he realized his attempt to reach the United Stated had failed. He became ‘insolently cocky,’ an official said, and seemed to take a great delight in telling how he made his way to Montreal.

He was caught while crossing Victoria bridge by A. W. Drum, supervisor of the veterans’ home guard. If he had possessed a registration card he probably would have got away, officials admitted.

Drum asked his name. The German gave the name of Harm Neilson. He said he was a Norwegian and had arrived in Canada only recently. He was wearing a dark gray suit which he brought to Canada from a British internment camp.

No Civilian Clothes Allowed Under the rules of the Geneva convention governing prisoners of war, officers are allowed to wear their uniforms but civilian internees must wear prison clothes. There is nothing in the rules, it is said, which permits a military prisoner to retain civilian attire.

Lorentz appeared tired and unwashed when caught. He carried a small bundle containing a shirt, road maps, and chocolate bars. His feet were badly blistered.

The Nazi attempted to bluff police even after he was in custody. He maintained he was a Norwegian until the German label in his suit was found and the R.C.M.P. took a sample of his handwriting. Then he told everything, Ottawa reports.

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CargoNet warns of rise in food theft

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – CargoNet is warning of a potential rise in the theft of food items during this Labor Day weekend due to the coronavirus pandemic.

“The effects of Covid-19 have brought new challenges to the supply chain, and it is more important than ever to guard shipments against theft,” the freight tracking and recovery company said Tuesday.

Each holiday, the company warns supply chain professionals that cargo thieves will seek to exploit the increase in unattended shipments and closed warehouses.

CargoNet said it analyzed theft trends from the Thursday before Labor Day to the Wednesday after Labor Day from 2014 to 2019.

“CargoNet recorded 161 theft events across the United States and Canada in this analysis period. There were 202 trucks, trailers, chassis and containers stolen.”

It said theft activity most commonly occurred on the Friday before Labor Day.

“Labor Day 2014 had the most activity in this analysis period, with 34 thefts. Labor Day 2019 also reported above-average levels of activity, with 31 thefts,” the company said.

“This year, CargoNet’s analysts expect targeting of food and beverage commodities as well as medical supplies.”– CargoNet

Theft events were highest in California, Texas, and New Jersey; but also occurred in 28 states and Canadian provinces.

Electronics gadgets were the most commonly stolen, but cargo thieves follow market demands, it said.

“This year, CargoNet’s analysts expect targeting of food and beverage commodities such as meat products and beer, as well as medical supplies in particular gloves and masks,” the company warned.

Drivers can harden against theft by parking only in secured facilities with theft deterrents such as high-visibility lighting, secured fences, surveillance video, or staffed guard services, it said.

“Secure your trailers with high-security locks and seals to prevent trailer burglaries,” the company advised.

Noteworthy thefts from previous Labor Day weekends:

$5,700,000 in cellphones from a warehouse in New Castle, Del. $1,500,000 in airsoft equipment from a warehouse in Irwindale, Calif. (recovered) $1,000,000 in silver from a port in Montreal, Que. $800,000 in cellphones from a truck stop in Jackson, Tenn. $560,000 in laptops from a secured yard in Ontario, Calif. (recovered).

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The 3 best companies of roofing inspection

Since you have determined to hire a Roofing Inspection Montreal services, you need to go with that who is certified and authentic. Several companies have been established in Montreal, offering the roofing inspection. To make your searching task simpler, the following has shortlisted the names of top 3: 

1.       Montreal Home Inspector Services 

Montreal Home Inspection Services Inc is one of the reputed Roofing Inspection companies Montreal established in 2010. It is located in the heart of beautiful & historic Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montréal, Québec. It offers numerous services, which are not limited to: 

Roofing: It includes Roof Covering, Materials, Protrusions, Type, Shape, Style, Pitch, Curbs, Flashing, etc.

 Electrical: It includes Box, Enclosures, Main Disconnect Ampacity, Circuit polarity, Service drop, Service Equipment, Points of Service, Terminations, Circuits, GFCI/AFCI, GEC, Ground Bonds, Receptacles, etc.

 Exterior: It includes Grade, Fence, Shrubs, Plantings, Grounds, Walk and Driveway, Patio, Deck, Balcony, etc.

Structure: It includes Basement, Crawl Space, Piers, Configuration, Foundation, Columns, Points of connections, etc.

HVAC: It includes Heating, Cooling, Ventilation, Registers, Condenser, Condenser, Vents, Ducts, Evaporator, Case, Coils, etc.

Interior: It includes Major flooring, Glazing, Doors, Kitchens, Cupboards, Walls, Ceilings, Windows, Counters, etc.

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INDUSTRY WATCH: Who's Who And What's What In The Defence Sector

(Volume 24-5)

By David Pugliese

Davie Shipbuilding says that its Resolve-class auxiliary oiler replenishment (AOR) vessel is heading into its final stages. The company announced May 1 that the “accommodation block” for the ship had arrived. The accommodation module was built in Europe by Almaco.

“While 85 per cent of the entire project was completed in Canada, the approximately 15 per cent we outsourced to Finland was in an area where Canada is no longer at the cutting edge and that is in marine accommodation outfitting,” explained Spencer Fraser, CEO of Federal Fleet Services. “Through the partnership with Almaco, there is a technology transfer which will result in the development of a new production line at Davie dedicated to the fabrication of pre-outfitted accommodation modules for future programs.”

Alex Vicefield, chairman of Davie Shipbuilding added, “This is not just about allowing us to meet the fast-track schedule to deliver Canada an urgently-needed naval supply ship. This is about developing a new set of skills which doesn’t currently exist in the Canadian shipbuilding industry.”

He noted the project is a demonstration of how shipbuilding programs can be delivered rapidly and at a significantly lower cost by building ship sections at different sites for assembly at a central location.

The conversion of the commercial vessel Asterix into a Resolve-class AOR involved stripping the modern vessel down to its bare hull and main propulsion system and then rebuilding the entire ship to military specifications, Davie noted. The conversion was designed and engineered in Canada and incorporates Canadian naval technology such as an Integrated Navigation and Tactical Bridge System from OSI in Vancouver, a STREAM-type replenishment-at-sea system from Hepburn Engineering in Ontario, and an entire Integrated Platform Management System from L3 MAPPS in Montreal, Davie said.

Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) celebrated the production of its 100,000th engine in May. The firm noted the milestone is a testament its longevity and leadership in the global aerospace market. P&WC, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., has 60,000 in-service engines operated by 12,300 customers in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. The firm pointed out that its engine families span across general aviation, regional turboprops, business aviation, civil helicopters and auxiliary power units and total 730 million flight hours logged.

Pratt & Whitney Canada’s reach is so extensive that every second a P&WC-powered aircraft takes off or lands somewhere on the planet

Lockheed Martin Canada has been shortlisted by the Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) to compete for the role of Combat Systems Contractor for the Finnish Navy’s new corvette program, known as Squadron 2020. Four ice-capable Squadron 2020 vessels are being designed to replace the Finnish Rauma-class fast-attack missile boats and Hämeenmaa-class minelayers which will reach the end of their life-cycle by the mid-2020s.

In December 2016, the FDF issued a qualification solicitation to 12 international combat system integration companies. The FDF has now shortlisted three companies to move forward over the next year in a competition. The selected Combat Systems Contractor will work with the native shipyard, Rauma Marine Constructions, to deliver the new ships.

“This is a fantastic testament to our Canadian-developed CMS 330 and integration capability — further validation of our world-leading offer in the international naval systems market,” Rosemary Chapdelaine, vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin Canada RMS (Rotary and Missions Systems), said in a statement. “Work on this program would be performed in our Kanata, Montreal, and Halifax locations; including manufacturing of the combat management system hardware in our production facility in Ottawa as well as software and systems development, integrated systems testing and trials in our Montreal and Halifax facilities,” she added.

DCNS delivered the FREMM multi-mission frigate Auvergne to the French Navy, as stipulated in the contract, on April 11. “The delivery of the FREMM Auvergne represents an opportunity to applaud the industrial and technological prowess of DCNS and its subcontractors. The frigate Auvergne illustrates our capacity to produce and deliver on time a series of front-line combat vessels to satisfy the needs of our client navies,” Nicolas Gaspard, director of the FREMM program at DCNS, said in a statement. On completion, the FREMM program will represent the construction of 10 vessels on the DCNS Lorient site, of which eight are for the French Navy. Six FREMM are to be delivered to the French Navy before the end of 2019.

DCNS is currently completing the FREMM Bretagne, which was floated on September 16, 2016, and is pursuing the assembly of the FREMM Normandie. Work has already started on the ninth FREMM in the series, the Alsace, which will be one of the two FREMMs with strengthened anti-aircraft capacities, whose deliveries are scheduled before 2022.

Davie Shipbuilding is once again highlighting its Project Resolute — a plan to provide Canada with the world’s four most powerful, privately-owned multi-role icebreakers at what it says is a fraction of the cost of building from scratch. The firm is promoting their design as an affordable and timely solution to meet the Canadian Coast Guard capability shortages.

Project Resolute was developed as part of an official solicitation from the government of Canada seeking solutions to meet our country’s icebreaking and oil-spill response capability requirements.

Rheinmetall AG announced it has won two important first orders for protecting sensitive government infrastructure from aerial drones. In Switzerland, the central prison in Lenzburg and the inter-cantonal penitentiary in Bostadel have contracted with the Düsseldorf-based high-tech group to install drone detection equipment known as the Radshield System.

Consisting of an array of video cameras, infrared sensors and radars, these sophisticated surveillance systems will monitor the grounds and airspace of these facilities day and night, detecting any flying object — not just drones but also model airplanes and balloons, Rheinmetall noted in a news release.

“Due to go into operation soon, these systems will make a significant contribution to countering attempts to smuggle in contraband such as weapons, drugs, tools and mobile phones,” the firm added.

In addition, the system can also detect objects thrown over walls and fences, even when they measure only a few centimetres in diameter.

Drone intrusions are on the rise around the world and in recent years there has been an upsurge in the use of remotely controlled aerial drones to fly contraband into prisons, the company added.

Irving Shipbuilding Inc. has awarded Nova Scotia boat builder Rosborough Boats a $7.3-million contract to provide Multi-Role Rescue Boats for the Arctic Offshore Patrol Ships (AOPS).

Rosborough Boats will construct two of their Rough Water 8.5-metre rigid hull inflatable boats (RHIB) for each of the six AOPS vessels being constructed at Irving Shipbuilding’s Halifax Shipyard.

ADGA Group received a recent contract to provide expertise to DND with the implementation of SSC Telecommunication and Network Transformation across the Defence department and Canadian military.

Jean-Pierre Lachance, president of ADGA Group, said the firm is “proud to provide professional services to assist the transition of DND/CAF employees to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony.”

L3 WESCAM has joined forces with Taqnia Defense and Security Technology Co. (DST). In February the two companies signed a long-term service centre agreement to open a WESCAM Authorized Service Center (WASC) in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

DST is wholly owned by Saudi Development and Investment Technology Company (Taqnia), which is 100 per cent owned by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF). DST’s objectives are to establish, develop, produce, and transfer defence and security technologies in cooperation with strategic international and national partners.