canada
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Give me things that don’t get lost
Tomber sur ça et verser une larme. J’écoutais cette chanson il y a dix ans, dans la ville même de Neil Young, Toronto, les yeux mouillés déjà, en pensant à Michel qui venait de mourir de l’autre côté de l’océan.
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I always wanted to be a supermodel
En cherchant des accessoires pour notre mariage, Nico est tombé sur cette vidéo de Dean and Dan Caten, les jumeaux Canadiens (de Toronto
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La sous-langue
«Radio Radio se complaît dans la sous-langue d’êtres handicapés en voie d’assimilation». C’est ce qu’affirmait Christian Rioux dans une chronique publiée dans Le Devoir le 26 octobre dernier. Ces propos en ont choqué plusieurs en Acadie et avec raison. (…) Dans ce contexte particulier, ce n’est pas en semant la honte que nous cultiverons la
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Internet VS. TV
More than 3.2 million people tuned in to the live streaming platform to see Sunday night’s landing of the Mars Curiosity rover, according to spokesman Tony Riggins. More people tuned in to watch the NASA Mars landing coverage on Ustream than many of the top cable news networks during Sunday primetime, he told Mashable in
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How badly do you want it ?
Bruce Labruce jette une lumière différente sur une histoire sidérante dans une discussion en deux parties avec l’artiste trans* torontoise Nina Arsenault sur le tueur présumé Luka Magnotta. In our conversations you also had some interesting ideas about the sad, recent death of porn star Erik Rhodes, who appeared in my movie L.A. Zombie. How
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Together
Pride Toronto and Google+ present « Together, » a series of films by award-winning director Jeff Feuerzeig, with music performed by Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields. » http://bit.ly/PrideFilms. C’est beau.
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Unstoppable
Une vidéo pour le Comité paralympique canadien. Goosebump. The video was shot in one continuous take on a rainy Toronto night and the entire set was mapped in 3d before the shoot for a quick and easy build. » Toronto photographer Mark Zibert shoots Unstoppable campaign for Paralympics, Canphoto.net.
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L’Ontario va taxer les plus riches
It’s a lot easier to ask government workers to take a wage freeze if we’re also asking a little bit from our wealthiest residents, said one Liberal MPP, referring to plans to freeze wages for doctors, teachers, nurses, and hundreds of thousands of others on the public payroll. » Ontario Budget: McGuinty agrees to Horwath’s tax-the-rich
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Les toits verts de Toronto
On April 30th, Toronto will become the first city in North America with a bylaw that requires roofs to be green. And we’re not talking about paint. A green roof, also known as a living roof, uses various hardy plants to create a barrier between the sun’s rays and the tiles or shingles of the
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Alouette
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Pour Access Copyright, un lien internet est une copie
Access Copyright collects royalties for course packs, anthologies of readings from books and journals compiled by professors. Under the agreement, the fee has been changed from $3.83 plus 10 cents a page to a flat fee of $27.50 for all course packs, which students pay. The agency also states that hyperlinks to copyright material —
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Pinkwashing
But Saturday’s protesters felt differently. Palestinian queers have reached out to us, said Emmaia Gelman of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, and you can’t fight for queer rights in a state with no civil society. Several protesters, many of whom said they were Jewish, invoked what they called pinkwashing, Israel’s alleged touting of its progressive stance on
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Le rôle du sauna gay
You’re more real, you’re being yourself, and you can’t play games, said Chundydyal. He added that your barriers for what’s acceptable change once everyone is out of their fashionable clothing and wearing identical white towels. This inclusive environment also makes saunas a safe haven for those who otherwise aren’t accepted in society. New immigrants, for
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Saeed Malek
Saeed Malekpour wrote a program to upload photos to the Internet, an accomplishment that could cost him his life, Amnesty International reported Friday. Authorities in the Islamic Republic claimed his program was used by someone else to upload pornography and charged him with « insulting and desecrating Islam. » Malekpour, who is a Toronto resident, was arrested
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L’usage excessif du droit criminel
Fin 2004, alors que prenait fin une relation amoureuse de quatre ans, Diane, une résidante de Montréal, décidait courageusement de porter plainte à la police pour violence conjugale après qu’elle et son enfant eurent été battus par son ex-conjoint. L’aurait-elle fait si elle avait pu prédire la suite des événements? Diane était séropositive et cela
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Le business des rubans roses
Pink Ribbons, Inc. est un documentaire canadien. Des milliards de dollars ont été recueillis mais le taux de cancer du sein en Amérique du Nord a été multiplié par 8, et le ruban est utilisé par de grandes marques, alors même que certains des composants de leurs produits sont cancérigènes. Sans parler de la «cut-isation»
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Space Canuck
Two weeks ago, Ho and Muhammad launched a homemade balloon carrying a Lego passenger and four cameras. It fell back down to Earth 97 minutes later with astonishing footage from an estimated 24 kilometres above sea level, three times the typical cruising altitude of a commercial aircraft. » Toronto teens send Lego man on an
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Today’s Online News Norms
For Bentley — who co-owns AllNovaScotia with his daughter, the publisher — getting it out there simply wouldn’t happen without the site’s uncompromising paywall. We’ve got to do that, otherwise they won’t buy the bloody thing, he says flatly. Our competition is people who want to read it for nothing. That’s the great big overarching
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Complementary Beverage
Un coupon pour une boisson gratuite, pour me rappeler qu’à Toronto, un soir d’octobre 2006, légstèrement égayé par l’alcool, et pour fêter l’anniversaire de Klaus, j’ai levé la main pour participer au Best Ass Contest du Woody’s. J’ai marqué beaucoup de points avec mon accent «from Parisse» mais je n’ai pu que m’incliner devant deux
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Christmas Spells
» Justin Vivian Bond, Christmas Spells, 2010. In December 2010, Bond opened a new show at the Abrons Arts Center, New York City, entitled simply Justin Bond: Christmas Spells. Based upon a short story that had been written by Bond’s friend, the novelist Kate Bornstein, Dixie Belle: The Further Adventures of Huckleberry Finn « imagines Huck