#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]

[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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[aeolianblues]

Okay I take back what I said about Indie88 because it turns out they do in fact have a podcasted version of this out to listen to

Also I forgot to remove the two listener comments, I had my first-ever live caller during Desire (/after Starburster) which was cool

actually do you want my notes from the Indie88 interview with Fontaines? I’m using it for my radio show tonight because I like to keep the suspense™ in case any of my eleven (11) listeners (of whom I know at least 2 have told me they keep their radio on at low volume 24/7 to avoid total silence) don’t want tonight’s show spoiled. If you want to become a 12th listener sure. If you’re someone who wants to text me mid-show I Will love you forever, only problem is I know most of you are not in North America and so asleep!

Regardless, I’ll post juicy deet's of the interview after my show tonight. Hooray!

[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

[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

[magpiedminx]

[pwhl-mybeloved]

At least for the Canadian broadcast are they only going to try to show the Canadian teams when they play or everyone. Cause my US self is gonna be pissed if I can’t watch Montreal unless they play a US team

honestly no idea how this plays out. I think it’s more based on which days they air? like it looks like cbc has the saturday games? still trying to figure it out. googling thru my tears rn

[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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[hockeyupdate]

"The Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) today announced a lineup of Canadian national broadcast partnerships which will provide fans with comprehensive live coverage of the 2024-25 season. TSN, RDS, and CBC/Radio-Canada will return as partners, while the PWHL welcomes Prime Video to the lineup, collectively delivering all 90 games of the upcoming regular-season, including exclusive French-language coverage of all 30 Montréal Victoire games. PWHL coverage begins on Saturday, Nov. 30, at 2:00 p.m. ET when the puck drops between the Toronto Sceptres and the visiting Boston Fleet live on CBC, CBC Gem and cbcsports.ca. The opening contest marks the first of 17 weekly Saturday afternoon games on the CBC schedule. Later that afternoon, the Montréal Victoire will host the Ottawa Charge at 5:00 p.m. ET live on TSN and RDS. The game is the first of 57 to be carried by TSN throughout the League’s second season. New this season, Prime Video will have exclusive Canadian coverage of all 16 Tuesday night PWHL games, beginning Tuesday, Dec. 3, at 7:00 p.m. ET when the Charge host the Sceptres. Canadian coverage of the semifinal round of the PWHL Playoffs will be split exclusively between TSN/RDS and Prime Video. TSN and RDS are the exclusive home of the PWHL Finals."

[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]

Hiya, I've been following your blog for awhile, its an insanely useful resource!

I figured I'd show you the squishy versions of three of my Black characters :3

Feedback is welcome and appreciated, but not necessary. I'm also willing to elaborate more about them if you like, but without further ado, here they are!

Eliyahu Rosenthal

Esther Mendelssohn

Oluwaseyi Adebayo

That's all, have a great night! :3

Oh I love these!!!! Oluwaseyi is my favorite, I love the bantu knots! And I'm always a sucker for the big eyes thing, like 🥺🥺🥺 I want to do one of these for my own OC. I love how even in simplified form, you found a way to incorporate their hairstyles and texture. Good job!

[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.

[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

[beardedmrbean]

Police are investigating the death of a 19-year-old Walmart employee who was found dead in the store’s walk-in oven on Saturday in Canada. 

Halifax Regional Police in the province of Nova Scotia, were called to the Walmart at 6990 Mumford Road at 9:30 p.m. where they found the young woman deceased. 

The woman “was located in a large walk-in oven belonging to the store’s bakery department,” police said in an update Tuesday. 

Authorities said the investigation is ongoing and a cause and manner of death have not yet been confirmed. 

Investigators are working with Occupational Health and Safety as well as the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service in the case. 

Officials have not said if the circumstances of the woman’s death are criminal in nature. 

The Maritime Sikh Society in Halifax told CBC News that it is in touch with the mother of the victim, noting the mother and daughter are originally from India and came to Canada two to three years ago. 

“It’s a really tragic incident and everybody is deeply hurt by this, and we are waiting for the police investigation to come out,” Balbir Singh told the outlet. “We would like to know what happened to this young woman.”

Walmart closed the store until further notice.

"We are heartbroken and our deepest thoughts are with our associate and their family. Our focus remains on taking care of our associates and making sure they have the support they need," a Walmart spokesperson said in a statement. "As police have stated, this is a very complex matter and the investigation is ongoing."

The company is providing virtual care and on-site support including grief counseling to store employees.

The Nova Scotia Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration said it issued a stop-work order Tuesday for the bakery and one piece of equipment at the store. 

"Please note, workplace investigations are complex and can take time," a department spokesperson said.