Nature and Travel
| Iceland Monitor
| Sun 27 Sep 201
Elma Rún Benediktsdóttir is one of life’s incurable animal
lovers. Her particular interest is birds and she has been involved in
bird photography since 2008.
“I love nature and everything that lives and moves in it,” Elma Rún tells mbl.is.
“I always played outside as a child – either on the beach or in the
forest and mountains. Life without animals would be empty.”
Elma Rún puts her heart and soul into the photography of Icelandic
wildlife and some of the stunning results of her work are above for us
all to enjoy. http://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/nature_and_travel/2015/09/27/life_without_animals_would_be_empty/
Canadian regulations ban face coverings at citizenship ceremonies, but
Zunera Ishaq successfully challenged the rule in Federal Court of Appeal
– twice – and won. The government asked the ruling be put on hold while
it seeks leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. (Patrick
Doyle/Canadian Press)
CBC News
Canadians right across the political spectrum are opposed to
immigrants being allowed to wear facial coverings during the citizenship
ceremony, according to the latest results from Vote Compass, CBC's
online voter engagement survey.
Asked whether immigrants should be allowed to cover their faces for
religious reasons while taking the oath of citizenship, 72 per cent of
Canadians say no. Only 19 per cent say they are OK with the idea...Continue reading...
At least 863 people have been hurt in a stampede in Saudi Arabia during the
pilgrimage in the deadliest incident in 25 years which the health minister
blamed on unruly pilgrims.
Saudi Arabia's safety record for religious
pilgrimages was under scrutiny on Thursday after 717 people died in the
worst disaster to strike the annual hajj pilgrimage in Mecca in 25
years.
Mike
Pinay, Qu'Appelle Indian Residential School, 1953 to 1963. “It was the
worst ten years of my life,” he says. “I was away from my family from
the age of six to sixteen. How do you learn about relationships, how do
you learn about family? I didn’t know what love was. We weren’t even
known by names back then. I was a number.”
CreditPhotograph by Daniella Zalcman
Throughout most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Canada sought
to forcibly assimilate aboriginal youngsters by removing them from
their homes and placing them in federally funded boarding schools that
prohibited the expression of native traditions or languages. Known as
Indian Residential Schools, the institutions, which were often
administered by churches, provided neither proper education nor adequate
nutrition, health care, or clothing, and many of the students who
passed through the system—an estimated hundred and fifty thousand
children from the First Nation, Inuit, and Métis peoples—suffered abuse.
The country has in recent years begun to reckon with the consequences
of its policy. A report released earlier this year by a Canadian Truth
and Reconciliation Commission described what happened in the schools
as “cultural genocide.”...Continue reading...
Residential school survivor Lorna
Standingready is comforted by a fellow survivor during the closing
ceremony of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation
Commission, at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Wednesday, June 3, 2015.Sean Kilpatrick / THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada’s top aboriginal chief and the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission have asked to meet Pope Francis during his trip to the United
States this week to discuss their call for an apology from the Catholic
Church over its role in the residential school system...Continue reading...
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s album Power in the Blood
has won the 2015 Polaris Music Prize, an award that celebrates the
Canadian album with the most “artistic merit” each year without regard
for genre, sales or label. The prize, presented at a gala Monday night
in Toronto, is worth $50,000.
Ms.
Sainte-Marie’s album, which ranges in genre from blues to rockabilly, is
the most overtly activist album to win in Polaris’s history. It
includes songs such as The Uranium War and modified versions of UB40’s Sing Our Own Song, and Alabama 3’s Power in the Blood,
which chastise corporate greed and support the Idle No More movement.
“Ever since the sixties I’ve been making diverse albums, and every
single album has had big love songs, which has managed to support me,
like Up Where We Belong,” she said in an interview Monday
night. “That’s allowed me to remain an artist. But on every album
there’s been songs that have some kind of social meaning to them.”...Continue reading...
It was a little bit windy on Tuesday, September 22,
leading to a slightly distorted reflection of the Traffic and Broadway
bridges in the South Saskatchewan River. Photograph by: Greg Pender
, The StarPhoenix
Saskatoon is in for nice first day of fall today, as the forecast calls for a high of 19 C.
It will be mostly sunny, with a few clouds here and a moderate UV index of 3.
A 20 kilometre per hour wind blowing from the southeast is expected for most of the day, with gusts reach 40 km/h.
On Tuesday, Saskatoon reached a high of 14 C, much lower than the record high of 31.7 C set in 1948.
Yogi Berra at Yankee Stadium in 1956.Credit
Sam Falk/The New York Times By BRUCE WEBER Yogi Berra, one of baseball’s greatest catchers and characters, who as a
player was a mainstay of 10 Yankee championship teams and as a manager
led both the Yankees and Mets to the World Series — but who may be more
widely known as an ungainly but lovable cultural figure, inspiring a
cartoon character and issuing a seemingly limitless supply of
unwittingly witty epigrams known as Yogi-isms — died on Tuesday. He was
90...Continue reading...
On Monday, an unlikely rat started trending on Twitter.
Dubbed the #pizzarat, a short video and gif of the animal trying to take a slice of pizza into the New York subway started taking over social media.
“Every pizza industry PR team currently having heated discussion about whether to associate the brand with a rat,” Washington Post writer said in a tweet.
The video was posted by Matt Little, a comedian who lives in New
York. He subtitled the video “A rat tries to bring slice of pizza down
subway station stairs. OR Master Splinter bringing food home to feed the
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?”
The short video has mesmerized the online community. news.nationalpost.com
This is me back when EP was zigzaging on stage. In the winter I would use water on my hair to get the Elvis look; at -30 your hair froze in place. In the summertime brylcreem and lots of it, kept hair in place. It was a wee bitgreasy.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie (Matt Barnes) 
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By Bill Sanderson Saudi Arabia's King Salman (right) and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef walk to greet President Obama in Riy...