#canadian programming

[dragontamer05]

Honestly I'm just curious as to how many- if any that people actually know or remember. Some of these even by Canadian Standards I think are obscure.

Pick which one is your favourite- or at minimum go with what you know heh.

Kleo the Misfit Unicorn

Mona the Vampire

Sagwa

Monster by Mistake

(That early CGI is ROUGH)

Storm Hawks

Freaky Stories

Katie and Orbie

Chaotic

Spider Riders

Class of the Titans

Ruby Gloom

[versains]

#he wants that cookie so effing bad

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Anthony Paradis: Yours » 2024 Junior World Championships

[allthecanadianpolitics]

In response to the freeze on immigration programmes announced by Ottawa, an organization that defends the rights of immigrants is organising a demonstration in front of the Montreal office of the Quebec Ministry of Immigration, Francisation and Integration early on Saturday afternoon. To limit the number of permanent immigrants to Quebec, the CAQ government announced in October that it would freeze the Quebec Experience Program (PEQ) graduate stream and the Regular Skilled Worker Program (PRTQ) - which is to become the Skilled Worker Selection Program (PSTQ) - until next June, by no longer accepting new applications for Certificats de Sélection du Québec (CSQ).

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[lostinhistory]

On to the World War Two section of my French vacation

First stop, the Battle of Normandy Museum, Bayeux

Bayeux was the first city liberated and was briefly the capital of Free France. Charles de Gaulle made a speech, people were cheering. There was a video of the footage. I am unsure if this was the actual microphone that de Gaulle used, because some of the smaller labels weren't translated and my French is not that good.

On the left, a German glass anti-personnel mine. Didn't know you could make a mine out of glass, but they managed it.

On the right, you know what that is, but let me tell you something about it, because I have actually held one in my hand: they are the cheapest, flimsiest things. Both it and the eagle above it (which I cropped out for obvious reasons) are made from, I think it's aluminum? and genuinely have the feel of something you would buy at Spirit Halloween.

British Army patches. I like that so many of them decided their unit insignia should be a Creature.

Pigeon transportation cage.

Booger Kid the bulldozer

Across the street from the museum is the British war cemetery.

Being here stirred up a lot of emotions, because there are just. so many graves. Over 4000 of them. The headstones just kept going. And all of them are from June-August 1944.

(My grandparents were in London for the war. They lived through the Blitz. My grandmother worked in a factory and spent more than a few nights sheltering in the Underground while bombs dropped overhead. My grandfather was in an artillery unit and manned an anti-aircraft gun. As luck would have it his unit was never deployed to mainland Europe, but he so easily could have been one of these headstones.)

On to Juno

Remains of the Mulberry harbour at Arromanches

We also went past bits of the Pegasus bridge, but I didn't get photos of it

Juno Beach. It's a lovely place! It would be a nice place to spend an afternoon. Just ignore the Nazi bunkers on the other side of the sand dune.

Said bunkers. The bunkers were actually lost for decades, buried by the sand, until 2010, I think?, when a dog that was digging in the sand uncovered the roof of one.

The picture on the right is one of the corridors inside the tunnel. It's made of cinderblocks, and when they first excavated it, they discovered that all of the cinderblocks were facing the wrong way, with the holes horizontal instead of vertical. As it was French civilians who had been forced to build it, it's believed this was an act of sabotage, as it meant the walls were weaker than they should have been (for safety, they've since rebuilt the walls with the blocks facing the right way, but they left one as an example).

At the Juno Beach Centre

Please take a moment to appreciate that one of our flying aces was named Moose

The gift shop sold maple syrup and Leclerc cookies and also, somewhat inexplicably, cans of Clark's baked beans

The waterfront of Courseulles-sur-Mer, where the Juno Beach Centre is located. You will note that all of the buildings are new. That is actually something that jumped out at me on the trip here: from Arromanches onwards almost everything was new. They had pictures of the damage done to the towns at the museum in Bayeux, but it really didn't hit until then that oh, this entire section of the French coast was levelled. These towns were obliterated. I saw one (1) old building in Courseulles-sur-Mer. Everything else is post-1950.

It turns out the French love two things: scale models and carousels. I encountered a surprising number of both.

[figureskatingcostumes]

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir skating their original dance at the 2007 Canadian National Championships and, with a different flower, at the 2007 World Championships. Their music was Luis Bacalov's Assassination Tango.

(Sources: 1 and 2)

[astriiformes]

Current fear that has lodged deep into my soul: Everyone keeps reassuring me that it's not impossible to get accepted into PhD programs without first doing a Master's, and I want to trust them. But when I actually go and look at grad student profiles at the schools I'm applying to, they almost all have M.As or the equivalent. One of the professors I was interested in working with even outright told me that I should look into getting an M.A. first.

I cannot afford an M.A. -- I am the sole provider for both myself and my very disabled partner who cannot work. It's PhD or bust, and I'm very scared I'm wasting my time applying for these programs. And that I may be locked out of a career path I'd really love entirely because I don't have the money for it.

[kidscbc]

The Save-Ums!

Not gonna lie this is the weirdest show I've watched when I was a kid. The characters are very uniquely shaped it looks like something from a dream.

The show realesed in 2003.

[jackswigert]

went to a talk by jeremy hansen, the canadian astronaut that will be on artemis II, and i think his mission patch might be one of my new favourites

[toxiclizardwrites]

Yeah that's right, a political post.

I'm very happy the Liberals won in Canada, but it's looking like a minority government.

Of course the hayseeds in my town elected a guy who is for conversion therapy, hates women, minorities, and is an all-round gross trustfund puke baby, yet again because a con candidate in this area could be a literal blue potato and they'd vote for it.

Sigh.

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Kazuki Tomono: Underground » 2023 Japanese Nationals

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

Hi. Sorry to bother you. Was just wondering if you were working on anything Ted lasso at the moment? I've been rereading all your works! They're my fav

Thank you for the ask, I'm always happy to take questions! Unfortunately I continue to be incapable of working on more than one fic at a time, and at the moment, the one fic is my original sci-fi novel Arson and Other Fires. That being said, I do have ~4 TL fics in various stages of planning and might either take a break between parts 1 and 2 of AaOF to work on them, or take another stab at doing the multiple WIPs thing once I'm free from the admittedly self-imposed torment nexus that is applying to PhD programs.

Here's what I have outlined for 5 times someone suspected something was up with Jamie, +1 time they said something about it:

One (season 1): who remembers their first drink of alcohol, anyway?

Two (2x03ish): Sam mentions he got the idea for the Dubai Air protest because his dad was upset the team had them as a sponsor, and suddenly Jamie's being... weird every time he gets a phone call from Ola

Three: Things are weird after Wembley. Isaac tries to be a good captain.

Four: In which Roy feels bad for slapping food out of Jamie's hand, and Jamie doesn't understand why

Five: Jamie's depressed and talkative

+One: Jamie comes back form Manchester with a manic energy and a head full of stories about his dad. Everyone else is alarmed

[filmjunky-99]

s c a n n e r s, 1981 🎬 dir. david cronenberg

'It mustn't happen again. The RIPE program must be stopped! This isn't the same thing, you understand. It's not the same thing at all. It's different.

The first time was an accident. Fortunate for some. Unfortunate for others. The RIPE program is cold and cruel. Very cold... Very cruel...' - ruth

[bluemoonrabbit]

So this week I am in Washington DC with the program I manage. And here's the positive takeaway from every meeting so far: Trump has had to backtrack on almost all of his insane executive orders because of widespread, *bipartisan* backlash.

Thanks to this insane monster trying to rule by executive order, many people are suddenly looking at federal, state, and public services and going "we care about these and we're going to protect them." So while not all is well and it's awful how we got here, there is a positive outcome. People who never thought twice about the impact of civil service and public programs before now care about them in an immediate and real way.

(Icymi, I manage an executive masters in public administration– the students are all mid-career public officials, administrators, etc. Think city managers, transit engineers, water policy strategists, etc. AKA the exact kind of people all these shenanigans are currently affecting.)

[faslaidir]

I don’t want to leave the U.S. I don’t want to move to another country by myself. That shit scares the fuck out of me. But we’re literally being overthrown by a fascist regime. I gotta get out.

[sparksinthenight]

Tell the federal government of Canada to support the fund that gives interest-free loans and grants to the Global South, which helps them improve their economies and provide for their people. https://act.one.org/letter/freeland-ida-pledge-can-2024