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Exposing pimkwashing in Israel and America (LGBT people saying "NOT in our name!"): ru-vid.com/group/PLzG_3q50DuPl2wovdh-rzgRKWaV8j8D4U Free Palestine and the USA from Zionist occupation and Zionist corruption!! One of many angry and disgusted LGBT and pro-choice (anti forced birthers) Canadian Non-Partisan/Independent Christians with no political and denominational affiliations (and proud of it).
I would like sharing with you my own witnessing & direct experience of how multiple groups youth students have been acting & behaving in a Toronto Public library every school day after school for hours shortly after the Youth Hub has been implemented in Toronto Public Library since years ago Once a few of these students indicated they are doing very much same in their school library, i.e. noisy on-going social activities, swearing, chasing each other, throwing heavy books or basketball at each other, teens cuddling & kissing one another in school uniforms, engaging highly violent & graphy computer games & so on. One of recent comments from a high school students responded about 2 month ago '' what rules?" when a library staff explained to them about rules of shared space, be respectful of other library customers who need a quiet space to work, study & research, etc. I used a supposedly '' quiet computer area " in a public library that has a youth hub program. Almost every school afternoon, some of these youths wearing school uniform march into this room, occupy & have their noisy interactions, yelling, swearing, watching porn, gossiping, game fighting with each other & turn this otherwise & supposedly quiet library room into their own social party & play room. I am using library resources heavy on a long term basis & keep complaining about noises, safety concerns & much disruptive behaviors involving mainly youth groups after school who can be found having their own fun & noisy parties in many library areas OUTSIDE their Youth Hub program room (& they still grab large quantity of program foods but not participating in the youth hub program) I feel that our public libraries also play a vital part in endorsing, supporting & cultivating these sorts of behavior of our youths as their mischief do not get any real punishment after multiple warnings, or even so-called final warnings when I keep complaining multiple times almost every afternoon. NO REAL SANCTION AS I CAN SEE. I feel that TPL cares much more about program statistics & continued funding than addressing REAL & NEVER-ENDING concerns originated from poor management of their Youth Hub program Consequently, one intentionally caring & community program aiming to help marginalized youths in vulnerable locations quickly turns into a source of disruptive & highly annoying behavior to many normal TPL customers because of poor program execution & administration I simply feel sad & disappointing how these young Canadians whose education & programs we all fund have been behaving in public places & how some of them consistently show no concerns over how other people around them are being negatively affected by their excessive, ongoing loud noises & mischiefs
Wow, I love her. "everyone should run away at 9 years old and go out into the world to discover themselves" 😯😌😏 I was 11 when I first ran away, but that explains why I connect so deeply to her writing. The end of lonely hearts hotel had me absolutely sobbing, it was beautiful.
Her official cause of death was septic shock and multi-organ failure, secondary to complications of a spinal cord injury she had sustained in 2015. She was 74.
I read Monkey Beach, a year ago for the first time and it became one of my absolute favourite books ever. I then read the Trickster Trilogy, and Jared is one of my favourite mc. The way she wrote him made him feel so real
Coming from a Muslim family, I really appreciated when he brought up the issue of highly educated Muslims who still hold beliefs in religious mythologies that contradict viable scientific theories. It's crucial to openly discuss our differences in a respectful and healthy manner instead of denying or hiding them due to political correctness. I call it the "raincoat barrier"-it’s like having a shower while wearing a raincoat.
What a great pleasure to listen and watch this interview. I was one of the lucky ones to have heard the great Jessye Norman in person in small and large halls, both concert with piano and orchestra and full opera. She was not only a highly intelligent and perceptive person but the possessed one of the the great voices of all time and used it brilliantly and was highly musical. Her voice made an impact in person that is hard to imagine, unless you heard her. Correction Ms. Wachtel: Martina Arroyo was a splendid Elsa in Lohengrin at the Metropolitan opera in the late 60's before Ms. Norman. Grace Bumbry sang Venus in Tannhauser at Bayrueth in 1961. Also Ms. Norman never sang Isolde on stage though she did sing most of it in concert and nor did she sing Elsa on stage but did record it complete! Do your research! You're a librarian. It's a bit insulting to assume that black women did not do things they actually did and did superbly.
Catton is such a great writer. Each of her books is a kind of gift. And each is unique. She is one of the cleverest, most perceptive writers today. I'd rather be able to savour a relatively small output of well crafted work, then read multiple, too quickly released, shabby/predictable works.
It is surreal that she talks about Strauss' Four Last Songs, talking about the the third one, the one about accepting death with a certain approach - and she herself died just seven months after this interview.
2 questions, and I'm really not trying to be a pain: 1) Who thought it was a good idea to call it something most people will struggle to pronounce, much less remember? 2) Where the heck IS it? All this excitement over a name, but you couldn't be bothered to tell us where to find it?
1) I was finding reading the name a challenge, too, and was glad that the short video includes its pronunciation and meaning, along with the tour. This is how I heard it: EEDANOHNA WASTEENA. 2) I don't understand why the address/location was omitted from the post. The library is located at 100 Ethennonnhawahstihnen' Ln. It's east of Bayview, just north of the 401.
are you sure you are not trying to be a pain? whenever someone says they are "not" something, it usually means they are. with practice those who struggle with the name will eventually get it.
Everyone knows that Left is DAMN WELL WOKE - You idiots could not possibly explain what you believe the difference is. Just the same old shit with a different name. Period, end of story - Woke is just Leftist politics on steroids.
What a captivating spirit she was & leaves an indelible positive memory for the world: Her beautiful voice, her sophisticated humorous personality, her genius intellect & yet her humbleness is reflected with all those blessings.
At the beginning of the clip, we see Liberal bagman John Duffy expound upon an enduring myth to which many Liberals cling to this day. The Liberals tried to portray themselves in the early 2010s as the great defenders of the House of Commons, which only they understood. Yet the Liberals did not understand that a contempt of parliament can by definition only exist within the life of the parliament in which the House of Commons has declared it. The House of Commons adopted a motion declaring the Harper government in contempt of the 40th Parliament elected in 2008, and then the Liberals tied that contempt of parliament directly to a withdrawal of confidence which could only have led to a dissolution. But dissolving parliament makes everything on the Order Paper of the House of Commons null and void -- including that contempt of parliament. The Liberals did not understand any of this. They made a tactical error in 2011. They should have let the contempt of parliament sink in for a couple of weeks and kept making hay of it. They should have provoked Harper into angrily lashing out and advising the Governor General to dissolve parliament instead of immediately also letting Harper off the hook by also withdrawing the confidence of the Commons at the same time.
At 27:00, the Conservatives' ads against Igantieff were, in fact, true: Iggy left Canada shortly after leading the Liberals to their worst loss in history. Iggy taught briefly at the University of Toronto in 2011 and 2012 before returning the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard in 2013. It *is* true that Iggy "went back to Harvard." So one could reasonably infer that Iggy "did not come back for us" after all. Yet to this day, if you mention any of this to Ignatieff, say, on LinkedIn or X, he gets all haughty about it and blocks you.
Talented writer. He is marvelous at describing a scene or setting---you can just about smell it. Also the way he glides thru dialogue without quotation marks & the he said/she said. There's a bit of a cool remove which helps and hurts the work. The detachment helps the reader see the panorama of dystopia, but because it feels and seems to happen like a mirage in front of you, the narrative does not sweep you away. There gets to be a feeling of uninvolved sameness. At one point I checked the length of the novel and was relieved the work of reading it would end at @ 300 pages. But what a scene-setter and sentence-smith.
Loved the novel, despite its display of overly much cruelty. But I didn't understand why in the final paragraphs he so shamelessly fished for contemporary relevance (the sea....). And: the setting in Ireland with its super-clear historical antagonism is a strange placement which I couldn't grasp, especially after having read The Milkman. ....it's a bit of an ambivalent reading pleasure.
