Yes, you may have heard or viewed or read the news through various
media,
but in case you missed it, I send you significant data of interest.
Best Dressed:
Hudson's Bay Co. Unveils Kit for Pyeongchang Olympics
(Excerpts
by Toronto's Lori Ewing)
The moment Canada's athletes, clad in the iconic read and white,
march into the stadium for the Olympic opening ceremonies, never
fails to take Alison Coville's breath away. The president of the
Hudson'Bay Co. expects nothing less when the the Pyeongchang Winter
Games open February 9 in Hoenggye Olympic Park. Hudson Bay Co.
unveiled its Team Canada collection on Tuesday and Colville said the
kit will have Canadian athletes winning the fashion game. More than a
dozen athletes modelled the collection at the morning unveiling at a
downtown Toronto mall.
The patriotic apparel flaunts colour-blocks of Canadian red and
white, plus black. For the opening ceremony, the parka falls to the
mid-thigh and features “Canada” emblazoned across the chest in
bold white letters...and a large white Maple leaf on the back. Medal
podium outfits feature a puffy red coat, while the athletes march in
the closing cermeonies in red and black softshell jackets.
“We
really looked to capture what we believe is the iconic Canadian
winter style. We considered the strength of our country, the
backdrops of the mountains and the white in the snow. And we looked
for inspiration, what our athletes are inspired by...and we also want
them to feel super confident...and beyond that, we do believe that
comfort plays a big role,” stated Coville.
Introducing Canada's
29th Governor General
(Excerpts
from The Canadian Press)
Former
astronaut Julie Payette took the formal oaths of office Monday as she
became the country's 29th
Governor General in a traditional ceremony on Parliament Hill. Chief
Justice Beverley McLachlin administered the oaths to the 53-year old
in the Senate chamber under the watchful eyes of hundreds of
high-powered Canadian audience members, including Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau, his cabinet, Indigenous leaders and other
dignitaries. Payette was presented with the ceremonial collars
marking her as chancellor of the Order of Canada, the Order of
Military Merit and the Order of Merit of the Police Forces, as well
as head of the Canadian Heraldic Authority.
While much of the ceremony is dictated by protocol, Payette, herself
chose music,
which included a rendition of Leonard Cohen's “Hallelujah”
Trudeau spoke of Payette's flights into space as inspiring moments ~
a two-time extraterrestrial Canadian. He praised her as a mother, an
athlete, a pilot, a scientist and someone who “went where very few
others had dared to go.” Payette had her first audience with the
Queen two weeks ago.
Families Walking
Highway of Tears
(Excerpts
from The Canadian Press...by Laura Kane in Smithers, B.C.)
Rhonda Lee McIsaac says she's walking the Highway of Tears for all
the women who can't. She was among the dozens of family members and
advocates of missing and murdered Indigenous women who walked the
final stretch of an emotional 350-kilometre journey along Highway 16
on Monday.
They sang and beat drums while carrying a banner emblazoned with the
faces
of those who have disappeared or been killed along the notorious
stretch of road in British Columbia's Interior.
McIsaac said, “I have lost a loved one.
I grew up in foster care and I was
adopted out.This is part of my story.”
(Indigenous
Women Hearings Set to Resume!)
Canada's Women's
Eight Captures Silver at Worlds
News Services reports from Sarasota, Florida:
Canada's women's eight made a late push to capture silver at the
rowing world championships Sunday. The Canadians were able to get
past the United States and New Zealand in the last 250 metres to
finish in 6 minutes and 7.09 seconds. Romania won gold in 6.06
minutes.
The Big House, In
Every Way.
Kingston
Penitentiary was the largest public building in Upper Canada When it
Opened.
(writes Mary K. Nolan in The Hamilton Spectator)
(writes Mary K. Nolan in The Hamilton Spectator)
The joint. The slammer. The clink. The institutions where
miscreants and malfeasants do time for their misdeeds go by many
names. But there's only one KP...Kingston Penitentiary...which as
lock-ups go in Canada, was the big house in every way. When it
opened for business in 1835, it occupied 80 hectares of waterfront
land that included stone quarries, a prison farm and a four-hectare
complex of buildings to accommodate up to 1,000 prisoners.
But more formidable than its physical presence is the roster of
offenders
who served their sentences behind KP's massive limestone walls.
They were the worst of the worst ~ Black Donnelly patriarch James,
serial child-killer Clifford Olsen, murderous rapist Paul Bernardo,
homicidal air force colonel Russell Williams, wife slayer Helmuth
Baxbaum and prolific pedophile James Cooper ~ once described by a
Hamilton judge as “a lowdown, mean, despicable, evil manifestation
of a human being.”
Mobsters, bank robbers, cop killers, fraudsters ~ thousands upon
thousands
who failed to follow society's rules languished behind KP's iron bars
over its 178 years of operation.
On September 30, 2013, the massive wooden doors groaned open to
release the last prisoner, a man who believed he was the King of
England and the guards were his servants.
Trouble Sleeping?
From
a Canadian novel I recently read, the author wrote about Steve, who
didn't usually have trouble sleeping ~ even with the distant noise of
jets on the nearby runways, but one night was different. He usually
knew just what to do with worries
and unsettling thoughts. They
went into a compartment in his mind: walled off by themselves where
they wouldn't bother him until he chose to deal with them. The navy
had taught you that.
You divided yourself ...your mind...your heart...your life into
compartments...
and
then managed these things one by one.
Compiled
by Merle Baird-Kerr...October 5, 2017
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