Tag Archive for the term: canada

The CBC has just launched a contest calling on Canadians of all stripes who have a story to tell about their roots/identity to turn their tale into a short film or web/multimedia production (film, animation, slide show, podcast).  The prize is what every aspiring filmmaker needs: professional equipment (iMacs, camcorders, etc).  Plus, you know, the whole international [...]

Here are some of my favorite videos from the flash mobs around the world that happened on Michael Jackson’s birthday. Call me crazy I just feel so connected to these kids, it’s something about the way they dance with such smiles and also serious commitment, for Michael and how he electrified us when we were [...]

I wanted to quote extensively from this article by Phd student Geof Glass about the impending changes to Canadian copyright law and the ways they will affect our lives as creators and sharers and digital transmogrifyiers and private citizens. The laws proposed will go even further then American laws to restrict even educational rights, and [...]

The loops are described as mathy and the basslines nomadic but really what oozes from Faunts is pure pretty; the low key earnest pretty of a wide cold country speckled with a generation of draft dodgers and their melodic children, all longing. The record is out on Friendly Fire.
Faunts “Explain” (mp3) from [...]

BYRON TOBEN presents
a PAUL ROBESON TRIBUTE
his amazing life and song told and sung by TOM FOX
accompanied by ANDREW COWEN
Paul Robeson…..all american football player
[...]

Indie Montreal will be hosting local Indie pop duo Hexes & Ohs as they celebrate the release of their latest video for “Wildfire”. Montreal rising stars Winter Gloves will share the stage and Ottawa electro outfit Politique will open the show. The release concert will take place on Thursday, January 22, 2009 at Jupiter Room [...]

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is not defending internet throttling, the CRTC’s vice-chairman said Thursday after the federal watchdog ruled Bell Canada was not breaking laws by slowing down certain uses of the internet.
The long-awaited decision, released earlier Thursday, means the company can continue throttling both its own home customers and its wholesale resellers.
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“They [...]

Heads up from the caps-lovin’ yet soft-spoken, large and in charge brilliant buds over at at Archive Montreal, yay, it’s Expozine!!:
Expozine, Montreal’s annual small press, comic and zine fair, will have its largest edition by far on Saturday, November 29 and Sunday, November 30, 2008, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. at 5035 St-Dominique (Église [...]

Ooh they’re sweet aren’t they, lovely lovers. Here’s a favorite song and music video from Canada’s The Weakerthans. I was in Winnipeg for a conference a few years ago, sitting on the campus with the high prairie sky early in the morning before panels were to start and suddenly this song was broadcast through speakers [...]

On Monday October 6th, at MainLine Theatre, something happened in Montreal for the first time: The Wrecking Ball!
Now, before I explain what The Wrecking Ball is, I should first mention that this is not the first Wrecking Ball in history. Nope. The Wrecking Ball has taken place annually in several major Canadian cities since 2004, [...]