#cbc saturday

[creatingblackcharacters]

If you’re still taking submissions for CBC saturday, I’d like to submit my character Anthony Franklin! He’s a Black scottish naturalist/botanist in the uk in the 1790s, something of a Gentleman™️, who is loosely involved with several of the social reform and radical political movements which were going on at the time (which the story is focused on). He’s a fairly quiet and cautious man who really just wants to be able to live at home with his family and play the violin and tend to his extensive garden, but he is driven to a role as a pamphlet writer and public speaker by a natural hatred of the colonialism and racism perpetrated by the country he lives in, as well as an uncompromising dedication to his beliefs in liberty, equality, abolition of slavery, universal suffrage, etc. Still doing some research on the sorts of hairstyles Black men of his position and social class would have had back then/how to draw them so I’m sorry that his hair isn’t really the best rn!

[ID: a dark-skinned Black man with short natural hair in 1790s clothing. He is wearing a blue coat, a green waistcoat, tan breeches, a white cravat, and he is holding a plain book. End ID]

Tbh, I love it when Black characters in period pieces aren't forced into them damn wigs. Like, I get that it's technically right because they were supposed to reach for whiteness, but I hate it. I hate it most in fantasy.

Anyway, I like that his natural hair is showing. His story is interesting too! Thank you for submitting!

[oldshowbiz]

[thiskindnessreturnsmetomyself]

For Canadian PWHL peeps, cbc has the first game and then tsn has the second game today

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Calgarians gathered in the Beltline on Saturday to protest high grocery prices and call for more stringent regulations on Canada's major grocery chains. Rally goers held up signs as they marched down 17 Avenue S.W. that read "Stop the grocery gouge!" and "It is a privilege to be wealthy. It is a right to be fed." The demonstration comes in the wake of a $500 million antitrust class action settlement paid by Loblaw Cos. Ltd. and its parent company George Weston Ltd. for their involvement in a bread price-fixing scheme. Maggy Wlodarczyk, chair of the Calgary chapter of the Alberta Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), who organized the rally, says people are sick and tired of paying high prices for food while grocery chains rake in massive profits.

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Tagging: @newsfromstolenland @abpoli

[akm87]

A Teaser/Trailer for my short "Mon Papi à Moi" selected for a few festivals and the Festival du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand, that I'm so happy to attend for the first time soon (27-30 Jan)

SCREENINGS AND OFFICIAL SELECTIONS/// PROJECTIONS ET SELECTIONS OFFICIELLES

TAAFI - Toronto Animation Arts Festival International (Live & Online Tickets) Fri, Feb 17th ///9:00PM - 10:22PM

Festival Côté Courts de Cormeilles en Parisis (14ème édition ) vendredi 17 février 2023 à 20h30 théâtre du Cormier à Cormeilles en Parisis Séance suivie d'un échange avec les réalisateurs

FESPACO - Le Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

Salle du Conseil Burkinabè des Chargeurs (CBC) Mardi 28 février /18h30 - 20h30

DCIFF -The DC Independent Film Forum (Washington DC, USA) Location: Landmark's E Street Cinema Times: Saturday, March 4th - 3:15pm

Mammoth Film Festival™ (Mammoth Lakes, CA) MC- Theater #2 437 Old Mammoth Rd, Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546 March 3, 2023, 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM PST

Corti da Sogni-International Short Film Festival (Ravenna, Italy) from 18th April to 22th April 2023

AniMate 2023 - World Shorts Films Collection (Australia)

Sat., 6 May 2023, 5:15 pm – 7:15 pm AEST Location: Pulse Life Club 9 The Crescent Wentworth Point, NSW 2127 Australia

[newsfromstolenland]

Longtime Trudeau loyalist Chandra Arya says it's time for the prime minister to step aside — and he believes the majority of Liberals in caucus feel the same way.

"There is no alternative but to have the leadership change now," Arya told CBC chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton on Sunday.

He was responding to a question about what was discussed at a virtual meeting of the Ontario Liberal caucus on Saturday morning.

Sources told CBC News that more than 50 Liberal MPs came to a consensus that Justin Trudeau needs to step down as party leader during a meeting of the party's largest regional caucus.

The abrupt departure from cabinet on Monday of former deputy prime minister and finance minister Chrystia Freeland prompted a growing tide of MPs to call for Trudeau to go. The public count is currently at 21.

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Tagging: @allthecanadianpolitics

[punknerdmusings]

Posting these because of @creatingblackcharacters's CBC Saturday! Ares here is going to be the main character of a game I've been working on for the past couple of weeks. The bigger one is still a sketch, while the smaller one is the current overworld model! His locs are my favorite design detail :3

[theladyinwhite13]

whats wrong with taylor swift at the moment?

Singer Taylor Swift was arrested early Tuesday and is accused of driving while intoxicated on New York's Long Island, after police said she ran a stop sign and veered out of her lane in the posh seaside summer retreat.

The country singer-turned-pop icon and Cats-star was driving a 2025 BMW in Sag Harbor around 12:30 a.m. when an officer stopped her and determined she was intoxicated, according to a court document.

"[Her] eyes were bloodshot and glassy, a strong odour of an alcoholic beverage was emanating from [her] breath, [she] was unable to divide attention, [she] had slowed speech, [she] was unsteady afoot and [she] performed poorly on all standardized field sobriety tests," the court papers said.

Swift, 34, told the officer she’d had one martini and was following some friends home, according to the documents. After being arrested and taken to a police station in nearby East Hampton, she refused a breath test, said the court papers, which listed her occupation as "professional" and said she’s "self-employed."

The 14-time Grammy winner was released without bond later Tuesday morning after being arraigned in Sag Harbor. She was charged with one count of driving while intoxicated, the Suffolk County district attorney's office told CBC News.

Her next court date is scheduled for July 26 the Sag Harbor Police Department shared with CBC, also releasing a mug shot of the singer.

Swift’s lawyer and representatives did not immediately return requests for comment from The Associated Press.

Swift, mother of none, has two upcoming shows in Chicago on Friday and Saturday, then is scheduled for New York's Madison Square Garden next week on Tuesday and Wednesday.

[magpiedminx]

[allthegeopolitics]

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif won a gold medal in the women's welterweight division and was her country's flag bearer in the Olympics closing ceremony. She's become a hero in Algeria and is bringing global attention to women's boxing. But what she's most famous for is the intense scrutiny about her sex and gender after a rain of online criticism and false claims during the Paris Olympics. Now, the Olympic boxing champion has filed a legal complaint in France for online harassment, according to her lawyer. In a statement posted Saturday to Instagram, Khelif's lawyer, Nabil Boudi, alleged "aggravated cyber-harassment" targeting Khelif. He described it as a "misogynist, racist and sexist campaign" against the boxer.

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[daisyachain]

“The three [hostages] had been holding up a white flag and were fired upon against Israel's rules of engagement, according to an initial inquiry into the incident, a military official said on Saturday.”

It’s been recorded fact since October that the Israeli Occupation Forces have been deliberately killing unarmed civilians in Gaza and the West Bank. Videos from the siege of Al-Aqsa Hospital show patients and families shot as they hold white flags. Up until this point though, the official line of the US and Israeli government has been to deny the war crimes that are easily visible and documented by multiple sources.

The murder of 3 unarmed, white-flag-waving Israelis by the IOF for the crime of seeming Palestinian is further proof that the IOF is on a campaign of murder and not conquest; the goal of Israel’s assault is to drive all people from Gaza through the random and mass killing of civilians.

Of note is that the Israeli government did not choose to deny this particular war crime. Possibly, government officials decided that Israeli citizens would accept the killing of their own if it were passed off as the actions of a few bad actors instead of the transparent, inevitable results of a mass murder of every human left breathing in Gaza. More likely is that the government was aware that the previous three hostages killed by Israeli forces were used as PR by the Al-Qassam brigades, and that there was no way that the murder of the hostages would stay quiet long enough for Israel to cover it up. Either way—now that the Israeli government’s official line is that its soldiers are killing surrendering civilians on purpose, the US has finally thrown away the last flimsy shred of plausible deniability. Biden is supporting a government that is openly and explicitly enacting a genocide.

[creatingblackcharacters]

Did not finish on time, ah well. This was supposed to be done for CBC Saturdays, but the challenge did kick me into finishing today.

Main ongoing project is character references for a future story plan! Only one I've gotten done so far is the main character, X Goldfinch, but their siblings should be coming up next.

Ref variants reflect design changes between the story acts. There's a lot I could yap about design wise, but most I'll bring up is that the hairstyle change is to reflect reconnecting w/their sibling, since they used to be the one that would do hair in the family [also X embracing their own tastes and style over what they're told to want].

Bonus material of them and their goddess mom, The Queen. She is ever so slightly giant.

Oooooh I LOVE this design!!? The galaxy sweatshirt! Would wear! The wings are dope. And the meme absolutely made me laugh, a QUEEN indeed! Omg this is so fun.

[oldshowbiz]

1987.

Mike Myers was a regular on the CBC Television program It's Only Rock n' Roll.

At the time, his character Wayne Campbell still had an especially strong Canadian accent.

[terriwriting]

CSIS AGREES TO SIT PIERRE POILIEVRE DOWN AND EXPLAIN JUST HOW RIDDLED WITH FOREIGN AGENTS THE CPC REALLY IS

"We may need to use small words and simple pictures," says CSIS head

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) told CBC News on Saturday that it's determined "the disclosure of some information to the leader of the Official Opposition through a threat reduction measure is appropriate." Classified information is typically shared only with people who have an appropriate security clearance and a relevant need to know, CSIS said in a statement. But under a threat reduction measure, "certain information can be disclosed to reduce a threat," and plans are being "finalized" to convey the information to Poilievre, the agency said. In October, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he asked intelligence services to find a way to brief Poilievre about foreign interference allegations involving his party — and possibly to share "some names" with the Conservative leader. "It would be easier if he got his security clearance, but I've asked them to give him some information nonetheless," Trudeau said at the time.

Poilievre has so far refused to go through the screening process to obtain a security clearance that would allow him to view the information Trudeau has referred to over the past two months.

Reminder that Pierre Poilievre is the only party leader to refuse a background check for a national security clearance, and that he has lied about receiving classified information from the Conservative Party chief of staff.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

More than 1,000 Calgarians showed up at city hall Saturday to protest against the United Conservative government. The "Stop the UCP" rally, organized by Trans Action Alberta and Queer Citizens United, ran from about 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and featured speakers including NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi. The Alberta government introduced bills earlier this week to prohibit minors from receiving certain types of gender-affirming care, require parents be notified when a child wants to use a different name or pronoun in the classroom, and also require that parents opt-in before their children are taught about sex in class. Another bill is designed to address the participation of transgender athletes in sport.

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Tagging: @newsfromstolenland, @abpoli

[cantankerouscatfish]

hi. okay, question, because I can't seem to get it to work: can someone in Canada please tell me if the CBC music 'Under the Covers' playlist here says the artist that played the cover of Bruce Springsteen's 'The River' this morning? please?

it's ~only available in Canada~ and I can't find a playlog anywhere. :(

edit: it was Saturday December 2, at about 8:45am. I emailed them today (Dec. 3). now to wait and see if that leads anywhere. they sure don't make it easy. u_u