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The Best of August 2023

Everything that went down in August can be read over here.

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If you haven’t already, don’t forget to check out the Q3 resource roundup on Black Remote She!

A few of the upcoming deadlines can be found below:

- Trans+ on Screen launched The DarkRoom Development Lab, a new lab designed for Trans+ and/or Queer Global Majority writers based in the UK to develop their feature film genre projects. 10 writers will be selected to develop their feature film genre idea over the course of the year and will receive up to £5000 financial support to participate. The deadline to apply is 24 July 2024 at 5pm. https://transonscreen.com/darkroom/

- BYP 100 is looking for Black Chicago-based artists ages 12-35 to display their work in their upcoming #SheSafeWeSafe (SSWS) Art Installation. All mediums of art will be considered and select artists will receive a $500 honorarium. The deadline to apply is July 27, 2024. https://bit.ly/46gX4pq

- Gaingels Scholarship Fund is a partnership with the California Community Foundation to provide $5000 scholarships for students to attend college anywhere in the USA. Students must have a minimum 2.5 GPA and demonstrated financial need to be eligible to apply. The deadline to apply is July 30, 2024. https://gaingels.com/gaingels-scholarship

- ASAN’s Teighlor McGee Grassroots Mini Grant Program will give out grants of up to $5000 to self-advocates of color for projects geared towards achieving systems change for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The deadline to apply is July 31, 2024. https://bit.ly/4fd7z1d

- The Trans Film Mentorship (TFM) is partnering with Sphere Media, Netflix, IATSE 873 and IASTE 667 to offer a paid work-integrated training opportunity for emerging trans and non-binary professionals within select departments on a Netflix series. Applicants must be an Ontario resident to apply. The mission of the TFM is to increase the presence of trans and non-binary professionals, filmmakers, creatives and crew in the film and television industry by creating work and training opportunities for emerging and entry-level professionals. The deadline to apply is July 31, 2024. https://www.transfilmmentorship.com/tfm-netflix

View the full list of resources using the link below.

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"New Arrest In Gold Case," Windsor Star. February 24, 1943. Page 3. ---- Fifth Man Being Brought to Windsor From North Ontario ---- Federal law enforcement agencies, continuing their roundup of alleged international gold smugglers, announced today the arrest of John Kovacevich, 32-year-old Croat of Schumacher. He was taken by pro-vincial and municipal police working in co-operation with R.C.M.P. and Foreign Exchange Control Board enforcement officers.

FACE COURT MONDAY He is being brought to Windsor to face charges along with four others held here. The five are expected to face charges of conspiracy in city police court next Monday.

Kovacevich was employed as a surface worker at the Bonetal Mine near Timmins. It was not announced whether stolen gold was found in his possession, but indications are that strong evidence must have been produced before he was ordered brought to Windsor.

OTHERS HELD Others being held here are:

George Birush, Sam Matijevich, Michael Bijlich and Marko Lekich. Three were taken into custody in a dramatic raid here on February 15. Matijevich was arrested in Hamilton and brought here last week. The four appeared in city police court Monday and were remanded a week.

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News from Vancouver Island, BC and beyond, 19 June.

Stephen Ewing, a Port Alberney man who was previously sentenced to 16 years in prison for sexual assault, pleaded guilty to new charges of sexual assault with bodily harm and strangulation.

2. The Cameron Bluffs Wildfire near Port Alberni, which has burned 229 hectares of forest, is now under control and suppression efforts have decreased fire behavior.

Highway 4, the only paved road connecting the Island’s west coast communities, is expected to remain closed until at least June 24, and a four-hour long detour route along logging roads remains the only way to reach the west coast.

Helijet is offering a daily round-trip helicopter flight between Nanaimo and Port Alberni starting Monday to circumvent the tricky detour, with a one-way fare costing $175 and booking must be done by calling the airline.

3. The Donnie Creek wildfire in northeastern British Columbia has become the largest individual fire ever recorded in the province's history.

The fire is still out of control and has resulted in evacuation orders for a sparsely populated region primarily used by the forestry and oil and gas industries.

The intensification of wildfire seasons in recent years has been linked to human-caused climate change.

4. BC Health-care unions say new whistleblower protections announced by Adrian Dix for British Columbia won't create conditions for staff to speak freely about the system.

Health-care workers must go through communications departments before speaking publicly or to the press, leading to concerns about narrative control and muzzling.

The new whistleblower protections are welcome, but concerns remain about the complexity of the reporting process and the need to extend protections to workers in private or long-term care facilities.

5. Six of the 10 seniors injured in a bus crash near Carberry, Manitoba, remain in critical condition.

The Canadian Red Cross is providing mobile medical units to displaced people in central Ukraine affected by the war with Russia.

The governments of Ontario and Canada have proposed a $10-billion settlement with the Robinson Huron Treaty Litigation Fund over unpaid annuities for using their lands.

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My Favourite Canadian Clothing Brands for Kids || OhCanadaShop

A roundup of my favored Canadian clothing manufacturers for kids which are sustainable, ethical, and made for kids to stay in!

If you’ve been following Simple & Sage for a while you’ll know that choosing Canadian apparel brands anywhere I can is critical to me. For me, helping brands that pick out sustainable & moral substances is a small manner to lessen the harmful impact of speedy style on the environment and the lives of garment workers.

What makes me SO excited is that THIS topic is what brings plenty of you here – lots of you moms searching out clothing brands for your kids that you can trust! Music to my ears. Last 12 months I shared 10 Sustainable Kids' Clothing Brands and it’s a favorite! Today I’m once more rounding up my favorite Canadian clothing brands for kids that are not the only ones I love, and so do Amelia & Theo!

Check  www.ohcanadashop.com to discover our wide range of classic Canadian Kids T-shirts For Sale and style them in the ways we mentioned above or any way you want!

We hope that you got inspired by our outfits ideas and that you will have fun experimenting recreating them with our hoodies. Let us know how you like this post!

OS & OAKES

Os & Oakes, based on a mama and her brother, create high-quality, durable, and current unisex apparel crafted from sustainable bamboo and ethically made in London, Ontario.

THE KINDRED STUDIO

The Kindred Studio is the maker of not one however TWO apparel brands for kids. Little & Lively is a line of apparel in colorful, energetic prints to allow your kids specific joy & their persona via their clothes and Pretty Laundry is a line of pajamas and lounge sets. Both lines are ethically made in Canada from bamboo & cotton.

JAX & LENNON

Jax & Lennon Clothing Co., named after mama & founder Kelsie’s children, create a line of apparel for kids that is supposed to be lived in and finalized so portions may be passed on. I recognize I have bought apparel for Amelia that Theo now wears from Jax & Lennon. Pieces are ethically made in Canada with the usage of sustainable materials like bamboo & natural cotton.

PETIT LEM

Petit Lem designs normal essentials from sleepwear to garb for each stage. Made from sustainable natural cotton their apparel is so soft, and durable, and is derived from the sweetest prints. I additionally love the seasonal strains for not the most effective Christmas pajamas (a fave tradition of ours) however Valentine’s Day and Easter.

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Resumen Tecnológico para Septiembre de 2022 Waterloo Region Ontario Canada

Resumen Tecnológico para Septiembre de 2022 Waterloo Region Ontario Canada

Resumen Tecnológico para Septiembre de 2022 Waterloo Region Ontario Canada Los fundadores y miembros de la junta de Communitech, pasados y presentes, se reunieron para un desayuno del 25 aniversario el 15 de septiembre. (Foto Communitech: Mandy Lubjenka) Tech Roundup para Septiembre de 2022 Después de un verano tranquilo, la comunidad tecnológica continuó en septiembre con múltiples aumentos…

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10/6/2019 Roundup

Articles/threads worth reading:

Some Indigenous Communities Have a New Way to Fight Climate Change: Give Personhood Rights to Nature

The Truth Is, I Don't Want To Hear Your Blackface Confessions

Amanda Simard, the former PC Party MPP who quit the party, says she’s considering joining the Ontario Liberals after their leadership race wraps up (based on fundraising numbers alone, Steven Del Duca is the clear frontrunner).

Could Peterborough hold the key to the federal election?

Liberals Pledge To Ban Conversion Therapy Months After Declining To Do So

Canada Post racking up close to $1M a year in parking fines, data show

Scheer’s dual citizenship response inadvertently shows who gets to be Canadian

WORK CRY AGE DIE: Food-delivery apps are selling desperate millennials on lies

Female surgeons in Ontario earn 24 per cent less per hour than male peers, according to study

Good news:

A Canadian teenager made headlines last week for his use of Instagram to help figure out the identities of unclaimed dead bodies; he’s also working to tackle widespread discomfort surrounding conversations about death.

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"Six Recaptured Jailbreakers Remanded To January 8," Windsor Star. December 31, 1942. Pages 1, 3, 5 & 19. ---- Fugitives Cold. Weak And Hungry ---- 11 Boys Spot Hoodlums, Trail Them; Soldier, Deputy, Police Join in Roundup ---- By JEROME HARTFORD --- Chilled to the marrow, covered with mud and weak from hunger and lack of sleep, six young hoodlums who Tuesday night strong-armed their way out of the Essex County Jail, were back under lock and key again late yesterday approximately 22 hours after their dash for freedom.

Captured at gunpoint only after five pistol shots and three shotgun charges had been fired at them, the fugitives surrendered to provincial and Windsor police at the northeast edge of the Essex County Golf and Country Club property just back of LaSalle. RUN FOR COVER The gang, which, contrary to police expectations, had remained together during their daylong flight, split up into two groups of three, when challenged by Provincial Constable Robert Armstrong, Private William Bogues, of LaSalle, home on leave from North Bay, and Deputy Sheriff Arsen Labute of LaSalle, and started to run for cover on either side of the Essex Terminal Railway tracks. Private Bogues was armed with a shotgun.

When the gunshots were fired all but one surrendered.

Louis Rainone, 18, of 312 Goyeau street, Windsor, kept on running and temporarily escaped in the bushy land in the district. The five who gave up at once were Archie Scott, 22, of Harrow, Ont; James A. Browning, 19, of 1026 Mercer street. Windsor: Leo Piche, 19, of Detroit: John Turgeon, 19, Campbell Bay, Quebec, and Thomas Brice, 19, of 292 Bruce avenue, Windsor. The captured five were then marched to the Essex County Golf and Country Club, where D. A. Robinson, club steward, and his wife were instructed by the police officers to telephone the Windsor headquarters of the Ontario Provincial Police forreinforcements. SPOTTED BY 11 BOYS Giant share of the credit for the capture of the escaped prisoners belongs to 11 LaSalle boys ranging in age from 13 to 15 years, who not only discovered the hunted men and telephoned for the police, but followed the six for more than a mile across the water-soaked. half-frozen fields, keeping the men in sight until police arrived. Speaking with boyish straight forwardness, the lads later told of their part in the hunt in a story that spoke highly not only of their youthful natural inquisitiveness but of unusual intelligence and daring.

"We were playing hide-and-go-seek." explained 13-year-old Roland Gignac. "Some of us ran into Fred Chappus' barn and we climbed up into the hayloft. I said to Jack Walker: Jackie, this is the best corner: they'll never find us here.' Then I jumped down in the hay and landed right on one of the men!"

It was James A. Browning whom Roland landed on.

The startled boys clambered down from the loft and stopped only when they were a safe distance away.

BROWNING FOLLOWS Browning, too, climbed down from the loft and approached the boys in a friendly manner, pretending that he had been alone in the barn. "What are you doing around here?" he asked. "Playing." came the answer. "What are you doing?" "Sleeping," replied Browning. "I'm from Toronto. I've been around Windsor for about three weeks looking for a job."

After a little more conversation Browning started to stroll nonchalantly down the Riverfront road, still acting as though he had been alone in the barn. The boys followed at a distance on their bicycles.

Browning turned off the road towards the Sunnyside Hotel, about 400 feet from the barn. Then he walked around the building towards the rear. The boys closed in hurriedly and saw Browning trying to scramble in underthe heavy wiring under the back porch. When Browning saw that he had not shaken off his observers he climbed out and made his way back to the barn.

At the barn Browning awakened his five companions and the six hunted men made off down the riverfront road in the direction of Amherstburg. Then they turned left off the highway into the fields.

By this time the youthful pursuers included besides Roland Gignac and Jack Walker, Richard Chappus, 15, Raymond Paterson, 14, Jack Fleming.14. Lambert Bergeron. 13, NorvalBeneteau, 14. William Spizowka, 14.Edmund Gignac. 14. Leo Gignac, 13,and Reford Gignac, 14.

DEPUTY, SOLDIER COME The latter boy was driven to the vicinity in a car by Arsene Labute, deputy sheriff connected with Exsex County Sheriff A. A. Marentette's office, who saw the six men in the field about 500 feet from his home. Labute dropped his wife off at the post office and told her to call the police. He, in the meantime, called his friend, Private William Bogues, telling him what he had discovered and asking him to meet him on Victoria road, in the direction the men were heading, and advising him to bring his shotgun. Labute then told Reford Gignac to get some other boys and follow the men, not too closely but parallel across the field so that they would be pushed towards the spot of his rendezvous with Bogues. Reford Gignac, when he met the other boys, found that they were already on the trail. They immediately followed his suggestion and left the highway for the muddy, ice and water-covered fields in the direction of the golf course. While they were doing this, Labute doubled back and went up Victoria road where Bogues was already waiting for him. Shortly after they passed the Essex Terminal Railway tracks they saw Provincial Constable Robert Armstrong who was just drawing up beside an abandoned car on the shoulder of the road.

STOLEN CAR STUCK The car was one which had been stolen about 5 am, yesterday in Amherstburg and apparently used by the escaped felons in their futile dash for liberty. It was facing north on the road and still had a quantity of gasoline in its tank. The car had obviously slid on the pavement which was covered with a sheet of ice, and slipped into the soft shoulder of the road, becoming stuck there.

Constable Armstrong's appearance at that time was a complete and pleasant surprise Labute and Bogues. The police officer had gone to Victoria road in response to a telephone call for the purpose of investigating a report that a stolen car had been abandoned there and the car was apparently the one stolen in Amherstburg yesterday.

The constable, soldier, and deputy sheriff joined forces and started off down the railway tracks to head off the hunted men.

About 200 yards down the tracks they spied them.

At the same moment the men saw them and started to run, breaking inte. two equal groups on either side of the tracks.

FRIGHTENED BY SHOTS Constable Armstrong fired a shot in the direction of one group. All three men stopped at once. They were Turgeon. Piche, and Brice.

The other group kept running. Constable Armstrong fired a shot in their general direction but they paid no attention to the warning. He fired another shot this time aiming at Scott. At the same time he signalled to Bogues to commence firing.

The soldier blazed away with his single-barrelled shotgun. Scott stopped and gave up. Browning and Rainone kept going.

The police officer took careful aim at Browning and he stopped in his tracks, not hit but badly frightened.

Browning stated afterwards,"That last one sounded like death!"

Rainone kept running and escaped. The five men who surrendered were quickly marched to the golf club where Mr. Robinson joined the forces of law and order with a double-barrelled shotgun while his wife telephoned Windsor for more police aid.

OTHERS APPEAR FAST This was hardly necessary, as it happened, for by this time. almost literally, "the woods were filled with police."

Constable Remi Morel, of the Windsor Police Force, who had gone directly to the golf club while Constable Armstrong went down Victoria read, by this time had met the boys who had been following the escaped prisoners.

"They're shooting at those robbers!" Richard Chappus and the other boys told him excitedly and pointed in the direction of the shots.

Constable Morel arrived in time to assist Constable Armstrong in hand-cuffing the men on the front porch of the golf club just as the youthful band of weary, muddy, but still game pursuers came upon the scene.

Within three minutes Detective Tom Maxwell and Constable T. MacLean, of the Windsor police, arrived in a radio scout car and took the five captured men to the Windsor police station.

SEVERAL PHONE POLICE During the greater part of the time during which all this was going on aquads of both Provincial and Wind- sor police were converging on the area in response to a growing number of telephone calls from LaSalle residents.

Two calls that police registered were from Mrs. H. L. Clarke and from Leo Gignac, one of the young pursuers, who turned back from the fields because it was after 4 o'clock and time for his copies of The Windsor Daily Star to arrive for delivery.

In the Sunnyside Hotel area alone. shortly before 5 o'clock searching for Browning, there were two squads of police. provincials under Inspector George MacKay of the CIB, and Windsor police under Deputy-Inspector John Burns, who later, in company with Constable Prank Scott of the OPP. effected the capture of Louis Rainone about 5:55 o'clock near Malden road.

Among the police officers who were chasing up and down the roads of the district or sloshing on foot over the muddy fields were Sergeant Jim Wilkinson. Detectives WR Blair and Chris Paget, of the Windsor Police Force, and Constables Frank Scott, H. Howe, H. Peever, and T. Trimble, of the OPP.

MANY HOURS ON JOB Provincial Constable E L. Harris of Amherstburg, who had been on the trail of the jailbreakers since about 5 am. Wednesday when they sped by him on No. 18 Highway heading towards Windsor in a car stolen in Amherstburg, and later found on Victoria road, was another police officer who worked tirelessly and intelligently on the job.

So many police were out on the search. In fact, that Inspector MacKay and Constables Howe and Trimble had to drive to LaSalle in a Royal Windsor Garage company truck, their only immediate means of transportation. Inspector Phil Walter. O.P.P. chief in Windsor, was directing the chase from Windsor. Sergeant Dave Duncan of the O.P.P. worked all Tuesday night and most of Wednesday without sleep.

RAINONE PICKED UP Rainone, in an almost helpless condition, was caught walking throughthe fields near Malden road later by Deputy-Inspector of Windsor Detectives John Burns and Provincial Constable Frank Scott, who took the Malden route back to Windsor while the rest of the police returned by the riverfront road.

Rainone was not captured so much as collected. Both Inspector Burns and Constable Scott agreed that they have seldom seen such a badly worn-out person.

"Thank God, you're here." said Rainone when he was led towards the car. Police doubted that he could have lived out the night alone and withoutfood, so poor was his condition.

Chief of Windsor Police ClaudeRenaud and Detectives John Mahoney and Sam Royan of the Windsor police force worked all Tuesday night on the jail break. One of the many coincidences of the capture of the escaped men was that Deputy Sheriff Labute had just arrived back in LaSalle at three o'clock yesterday afternoon from Kingston Penitentiary where, on the afternoon of the day of the jailbreak, he had taken six prisoners, including three who had received sentences of 20 years and 30 lashes apiece, and John Lefaive, convicted Stoney Point bank robber. All these men would have been offered their freedom by Rainone and Turgeon on Tuesday night when they went along the cell-blocks with the guards keys, asking who wanted out.

Another lucky thing in the case was the fact that Private Bogues was home on his Christmas furlough and was near at hand with his shotgun.which proved a big help in halting the runaway prisoners.

"Each Faces Charge Of Escaping," Windsor Star. December 31, 1942. Page 3. ---- More Serious Counts Are Likely; Young Thugs Handcuffed and Heavily Guarded --- Handcuffed in pairs, and wearing looks of resignation, the sextet of thugs who smashed their way to freedom from the sombre cells of Essex County Jail early Tuesday night, only to lose their freedom within 22 hours of their break, appeared before Magistrate D. M. Brodie in city police court today, each charged with escaping from custody. ALL ARE REMANDED All were remanded to January 8. Three of them had elected summary trial on the charge, two of them re- served election of trial, and the sixth asked for jury trial. Crown Attorney James S. Allan. K.C., told the court that as additional charges against some of them may be laid, all should be remanded until the full facts of the jail break are learned.

Thomas Brice, Bruce avenue, 19,who had been awaiting trial on sev- eral charges, including auto theft. elected summary trial; so did Joseph A. Piche, Cass avenue, Detroit, 19, involved in a robbery armed count, but awaiting examination by a psychiatrist; and Archie Scott, 22, no fixed abode.

OTHER ELECTIONS James Browning, who was awaiting transfer to Kingston Penitentiary to serve seven years for robbery armed, reserved election; John Turgeon, who had but 20 days of a 30-day sentence to serve at the time he fled the jail, elected trial by jury: and Louis Rainone, 22, Goyeau street, awaiting trial on several charges, including auto theft, likewise reserved plea.

The youthful thugs were heavily escorted by police on entering and leaving the police courtroom. They looked tired and displayed no signs of bravado during their five-minute stay before the magistrate.

JAIL INSPECTOR HERE Thomas Gorlay, chief inspector of Ontario prisons, was in Windsor this morning conferring with John Morkin, governor of the Essex County Jail, and Sheriff A. A. Marentette.

After the six jailbreakers were brought down to the cellroom from the city courtroom, Inspector Gorlay spent nearly half an hour questioning first Rainone and then Brice.

"What did you tell them, Rainone?" shouted the others from their cells belligerantly when Rainone was re-turned to his cell.

"I didn't tell them nothing," came the reply.

It is known, however, that Rainone was willing to tell the police everything when he was taken to the police station in a thoroughly exhausted condition last night. Whether he signed any statement last night or whether he actually did tell Inspector Gorlay what the inspector wanted to know this morning, was not divulged by police authorities.

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The Morning After the Night Before It was the morning after the night before for the six youthful yeggs who broke from Essex County Jail Tuesday night and were captured late yesterday near LaSalle. Four of them are shown here being escorted from their cells at the Windsor police station to make an appearance in city police court this morning. Constable Frank Stanley is at the left walking out of the cell-room in front of the prisoners. Just behind him is Thomas Brice, 19. In back of Brice is Constable Bill Brant, next to whom stands James A. Browning, 19. Leo Piche, 1?, is next, at the front. Archie Scott, 22, is shown at the right just coming out of his cell. Sergeant Alec Innes is shown at the rear.

Young Bandit Looks Annoyed as Brief Freedom Ends LOUIS RAINONE, 18-year-old Windsorite who rode roughshod fall-keepers in leading Tuesday night's daring six-man break from the Essex County Jail, is shown being assisted up the steps of the Windsor police station last evening by Deputy-Inspector of Detectives John Burns (left) and Provincial Constable Frank Scott. Rainone, soaked to the thighs in swamp-water and almost at the point of exhaustion, was found. near Malden road by the police officers shown above as they returned to Windsor from the Essex County Golf and Country Club, where about half an hour earlier all of Rainone's companions in the jailbreak had been captured.

Boys Whose Good Work Led to Capture of Fugitives ROLAND GIGNAC, 13; Richard Chappus, 15; Raymond Paterson are shown, left to right, pointing out for each other in Wednesday's Star those of the six escaped prisoners from the Essex County Jail whom they particularly remember after discover- ing them asleep in a hayloft and following them across the open fields until police arrived. Roland was the first to find the hunted men, having sat upon one in the dark hayloft while playing "hide-and-go-seek." Richard and Raymond were among 11 boys who kept the men in sight until police arrived. Leo is shown with his Windsor Star carrier bag still over his shoulder, is congratulating his young friends. Leo turned back from the hunt to telephone the police and was not present at the capture. (By Staff Photographer.)

Men Who Fired Shots and Caught Jailbreakers and One of Them Back in Cell DEPUTY-SHERIFF ARSENE LABUTE, Provincial Constable D. Robert Armstrong and Private William Bogues, are shown on the left talking over their capture late yesterday, on the property of the Essex Golf and Country Club, of five of six prisoners who slugged their way out of Essex County Jail Tuesday night. Labute saw the escaped men near his home. In LaSalle, called Bogues who was home on Christmas leave. from North Bay and set out after the men. Bogues was armed with a shotgun. They were joined almost at once by Constable. Armstrong. The police officer fired his revolver five times and Bogues his shotgun three times before five of the jailbreakers stopped. The other was captured about half an hour later.. Archie Scott, 22, of Harrow, who was facing a seven-year sentence in Kingston Penitentiary when he escaped, is shown in the picture on the right in a Windsor police cell after partaking in the futile escape, seemingly pondering how many years will be added to his term. The six men were at liberty less than 24 hours. (By Staff Photographer.)

Camera Catches Jailbreakers as They Are Led From Windsor Police Cells for Appearance in Court This Morning SNAPPED as they were being led from their cells at the Windsor police station on their way to city court this morning, five of the six men who broke from Essex County Jail on Tuesday night, are seen in attitudes they struck as they saw the cameraman. Archie Scott, 22, of Harrow, at the left, hides his face behind a folded newspaper. Scott's picture appeared in The Star yesterday but he apparently was determined to play to the last the role of the big-time crook he and his companions emulated by breaking jail, and hid his face in the approved fashion. Second from the left is John Turgeon, 19, who had only 20 days left to serve in the county jail when he allegedly joined with Louis Rainone in leading the break. Turgeon is said to have slugged Guard Tom Kennedy. Leo Piche, 19; Louis Rainone, 18, and Thomas Brice,. 19, are shown next, with Brice at the back. Rainone and Constable Frank Stanley are shown on the right.

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More Democrats Push For Presidency & Private Healthcare For Canada?

More Democrats Push For Presidency & Private Healthcare For Canada?

Virginia’s governor is a racist, the Ontario PCs may try to privatize healthcare, and more East Coast progressives are running for President. This is the last week in the Americas.

Racist Photo Of Virginia Governor Emerges

Governor Ralph Northam’s med school yearbookwas uncovered last week, and his section is interesting, to say the least. In Northam’s quarter-page section, there is a photo of a…

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1. The most beautiful sunset in Venice / 2. Camping isn’t too bad, when cute RVs and mountain views are involved. / 3. Admiring the views at El Matador (wearing J.O.A. cover up - similar here and here, Victoria Secret swimsuit) / 4. My favourite view of Muskoka (wearing JCrew vest, North Face sweater - similar here, Aerie leggings, Adidas sneakers) / 5. Golden, just golden / 6. Is there anything better than fall in cottage country? (wearing The Bay vest, Uniqlo shirt - similar here, Topshop jeans, Sam Edelman boots - similar here) / 7. Unzipped in Toronto / 8. The cutest and equally delicious treats from Taiyaki NYC. Welcome to Toronto!

Better late than never! Here’s a quick recap of October, via Instagram. The start of October was spent in beautiful Malibu (sending so many well wishes for all of those affected by the fires in California), and the later half in one of my favourite places in Ontario, Muskoka. I make an annual trip to the cottage every fall and look forward to it every year.

As for Toronto, I finally visited the Unzipped art installation, and tried out Taiyaki NYC for the first time! As always, you can keep up with me on Instagram @memoryonrepeat. Hope you guys had a wonderful Monday.

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Woke up w/ Pain Level 6 this morning due to a bumpy mattress that bruised my hip. Today is gonna be my longest haul in a while--5 hrs. Starting out tired & achy is not a good sign but hey, I'm gonna finally get to Oregon! Only 2 more nights before I arrive in Portland!

The next 2 nights I am staying in Motel 6's before I arrive at one in Portland. I love them because they are all set up w/ laptop users in mind. Here in this Super 8, they have a desk but the nearest plug is the full length of the cord. And there is no lamp on the desk! So stupid.

Anyway, when I reserved one for Ontario OR, I also reserved the next night in Pendleton then reserved a MONTH in Portland. Boy howdy, I suddenly got significant discounts! The exception was Pendleton. Good gawd, I'm gonna spend over $200 for one night there. I had no choice because Pendleton is literally the half-way point. I joked w/ the reservationist, "This must be the fanciest Motel 6 in the world."

She said she didn't understand it but there must be some big event in Pendleton that more than doubled the normal rate. After getting off the phone, I googled it & sure enough Pendleton is having its annual rodeo AND Biker Week!

Shit, I'm thinking, will I have to wait in a long line w/ cowboys & outlaws to check in? Probably not. They will have arrived before me. The 14-15th are the days OF the Rodeo Roundup. And Biker WEEK probably started on Saturday or Sunday. I'm prepared for loud parties & possible confrontations in the parking lot. Should be interesting.

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You know, it’s like. Sure. Sir John A Macdonald united Canada through the railway. And until this weekend, I don’t think I really understood what exactly that entailed. Short version is, without him, Canada would probably just be Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes. B.C. had received an offer to join the U.S., and Canada didn’t technically own Rupert’s Land (present day Alberta, Sask, and Manitoba). They didn’t have the money to buy it; Britain was busy doing British things and didn’t have the money to buy it; if nobody bought it, then America would.

(They saved their asses by leasing out the land to big corporate ranching operations at an ungodly cheap price until they could negotiate it down to a reasonable buying price. Then Macdonald finally got the railway finished.)

So. This man, who had a large hand in encouraging residential schools and the genocide of First Nations people across Canada, made Canada what it is today through that. So we celebrate him, because without him, the place I live would have been owned by the U.S.

And frankly.

So what?

“We have to honour him for what he did! He united Canada! Yes, there was harm to indigenous culture, but we can’t just erase him and his accomplishments.”

But really, what was his accomplishment? Why was it so important that he united this part of the continent known as North America? Why does it matter so badly that this is Canada and not America?

Why does it matter so much that this isn’t America, that we have to celebrate him, and this country, for something that is genuinely and completely inseparable from the genocide that occurred here? Without roundups, without eliminating plains food sources, without coercing and tricking First Nations peoples into treaties, without stripping them of culture and history and children and language and family, that railway would not have been possible. The unity of so-called Canada would not have been possible.

So, why is it that we insist that this being Canada and not America is worth celebrating the erasure of millions of lives?

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[noahmanskar]

The Best Albums of 2020 (and from the Before Times)

I read a lot of year-end music roundups, and several this year have come with a resonant caveat: It’s been harder to discover new music this year, both because of physical limitations (no shows, no record-store browsing, no chats with friends about your latest finds), and because the way we used music fundamentally changed. It certainly did for me. Rather than serving as the backdrop for a commute or a night out, it created moments of solace from cabin fever while doing dishes, or showering, or running semi-weekly errands. So I often turned to what was comfortable and familiar, songs that conjured memories and feelings to get me through the day. Even on the rare occasions of social listening, the groups I was with drifted into nostalgia — middle school dance tracks, mid-2000s emo, inherited dad rock, even songs from just a year or two ago, when everything was simpler, relatively speaking.

That’s not to say nothing new moved me. There was a handful of albums and songs that were crucial to getting through the doldrums. They soundtracked bike rides, long walks, longer drives and lots of small moments mentioned above. But I don’t think I can think about my favorite music of this year without thinking about the albums of the past that got me through it. Besides, one of the many lessons 2020 taught is that time is a bizarre illusion anyway. (This exercise also lets me write about some recent albums that I didn’t get to write about when they were actually released.

So here are the albums, past and present, that made 2020 bearable. I hope you found yours, too.

Tame Impala, “The Slow Rush”

Tame Impala’s fourth LP came out on Valentine’s Day. That afternoon, Claire and I had a lunch date to mark the occasion before we got on a plane to visit my parents. The night before, we had gone out to dinner with friends visiting from San Francisco and then to a bar, where we huddled next to strangers on a water bed. Roughly a month later, all of this would be unimaginable, and Kevin Parker’s lyrics to “One More Year” would be eerily prescient as we settled into this new normal:

But now I worry our horizon's been nothing new 'Cause I get this feeling and maybe you get it too We're on a rollercoaster stuck on its loop-de-loop 'Cause what we did one day on a whim Has slowly become all we do

The song is really about surrendering to time, and not worrying about it passing in spite of your ambivalence. The opening chants of Parker’s “Gregorian Robot Choir” make it easy to surrender. They carry you into a world where, as the cover art suggests, all that time you were worrying about has already passed, so you might as well dance. At the same time, the songs that follow, like “Borderline,” “Breathe Deeper” and “Lost In Yesterday” make it easy to remember what it was like to dance in a sweaty room with people you love, and to look forward to doing it again, after a little more time passes.

Fleet Foxes, “Shore”

There’s something comforting about the fact that Fleet Foxes released this record on the exact moment of the autumnal equinox. It’s a reminder that nature has its own rhythms that carry on regardless of what occurs in our human lives. They give us a measure of certainty in uncertain times. One of these rhythms — death — looms large in “Sunblind,” an ode to Robin Pecknold’s departed musical forebears: David Berman, Bill Withers, John Prine and others. This song exuding calm acceptance shifts into “Can I Believe You,” which wrestles frankly with doubt and fear.

These tracks contain profound contradictions, but sonically, they're both bright, hopeful and sure. That’s what made this album such a balm in the sixth month of this pandemic, a time of both growing darkness and hope for what might be on the other side. It reminds us that there’s power and beauty in feeling all these things at once.

Lil Uzi Vert, “Eternal Atake”

This one spent two years in label purgatory, but it finally arrived in March to prove Lil Uzi Vert can do it all. He’s at his most versatile here, spitting and crooning, boasting and balladeering. “You Better Move” is an early standout packed with playful nostalgia, including a beat that samples that classic PC pinball game and delightful jabs like these:

Yeah, step on competition, changin' my shoes Green shirt, bitch, I'm Steve, where is Blue? Every chain on, I pity a fool I'm an iPod, man, you more like a Zune Made her eat on my dick with a spoon, ew Versace drawers, bitch, you Fruit of the Loom

Then there are the melodic tracks like “Urgency,” which compel you to hum along even on the first listen. The excellent diversity made it worth the wait for this hourlong journey to another planet.

Sturgill Simpson, “Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 1: The Butcher Shoppe Sessions”

I haven’t spent much time with Sturgill Simpson outside of 2014′s “Metamodern Sounds in Country Music,” and I can’t say I’ve ever listened to another bluegrass album all the way through. But these new cuts of songs picked from Simpson’s catalog are wonderfully enticing. Simpson puts the talents of his backing band front and center, and their harmonies and rhythms illuminate his vivd songwriting in new ways. It was a great introduction to the genre for me.

Fiona Apple, “Fetch The Bolt Cutters”

I got here after the hype, after the perfect 10, after all the year-end number-ones. Fiona Apple lives up to all of it. Her compositions are complex and evocative, the lyrics tender and biting at once. Her artistry is unsparing. The chorus to the title track is already getting stuck in my head, and I can’t wait to spend more time with this one.

Bea Troxel, “The Way That It Feels” (2017)

Almost a decade has passed since I first saw Bea Troxel play. She was in an incredibly talented trio with two of my high school classmates: Maeve Thorne (who has an entrancing solo EP of her own), and Rita Pfeiffer (the violinist on this record). They ended up winning my school’s battle of the bands, and I got to interview them for the student newspaper. Shortly after our senior year, they recorded an album that still outshines most of today’s indie folk. So I jumped at the chance to all three of them again in Brooklyn. 

Troxel’s performance in particular was a revelation. I won’t ever forget how I fell into a trance as she picked away at “Talc,” which exemplifies her gift for natural metaphor. I haven’t stopped playing her record since, and it’s been a constant comfort throughout this year. Her voice is one of a kind, her songwriting is rich, and the compositions flow together beautifully. I can’t wait for more; in the meantime, “The Way That It Feels” will be on repeat.

Travis Scott, “Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight” (2016)

There’s been much ado about the brilliance of “Astroworld,” Travis Scott’s magnum opus, but I have a soft spot for his sophomore LP, where he reached the peak of the spare and heavy sound that started to take shape on “Owl Pharaoh.” There are plenty of sonic layers here, and the ordering of the tracks is a craft in itself — a series of peaks and valleys that glides from the haze of “beibs in the trap” to the climax of “goosebumps” and then into the cool waters of “pick up the phone.” It feels like Scott is guiding you to and from these destinations. The journey is, as The Weeknd might put it, “wonderful.”

Harmonium, “Harmonium” (1974)

One of my pandemic binges was “Letterkenny,” the sharp Ontario-set sitcom with top-notch banter and a great soundtrack full of indie hits and Canadian deep cuts. The fight scenes are elegantly choreographed, but so are the handful of sequences at the end of key episodes that reveal the show’s emotional bedrock. One such scene is set to Harmonium’s “Un musicien parmi tant d'autres” — the main characters are reveling in a bar with their Québécois pals, whom they’ve just helped beat up a rival group. As the song builds to its climactic chorus, leading man Wayne, surrounded by couples, realizes his longing for companionship. Another fight breaks out, but instead of joining in, Wayne makes his way through the slow-motion fray toward the woman he’ll propose to in the next season. (Their relationship later falls apart, but that doesn’t undercut this scene’s beauty.)

This is probably the first foreign-language album I’ve listened to in full, but all of it evokes that feeling for me — the joy of walking through the chaos to reach what’s really important. Not a bad sentiment for these times.

Bon Iver, “22, A Million”

To talk about this weird, dark and brilliant album, I need to talk about “715 - CR∑∑KS.” Everyone I’ve talked to about the third track on “22, A Million” either loves it or can’t stand it. I’m devoted to it to the extent that it was my most-played song on Spotify this year. It oscillates between tenderness and fear, between silence and explosions of sound. The lyrics are an epitome of Justin Vernon’s cryptic poetry. It’s isolated and spare and enthralling and beautiful in its own bizarre way — just like the rest of the album, which is rich with themes of persevering through the darkness in spite of the uncertainty about when the light will appear. Vernon is alone on “CR∑∑KS,” but he’s accompanied by a cacophony of his own voice. As alone as we might feel right now, there’s always someone else shouting through the darkness with us, even if we can’t see them.