In general terms, being politically conservative means exercising caution when considering change, following traditional ways, and having a practical and ethical social conscience. It has always annoyed me that the NDP and its predecessor, the CCF, portray themselves as the only political party with a social conscience, something that is remarkably inaccurate and misleading.
Category: Canada
Get ready for a brand new Anne of Green Gables on television
Prince Edward Island is such an intricate part of who Anne is. It’s almost impossible to have a production of Anne of Green Gables without really featuring Prince Edward Island CBC will air this version – it’s simply titled “Anne” – of the story over eight episodes featuring 14-year-old Amybeth McNulty in the title role.
Some brides say yes to selling their wedding dress online
This Oct. 8, 2016, photo provided by Chondon Photography shows newly-married couple Heidi and Rob Cundari after their wedding, in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
Christopher Plummer reflects on roots ahead of Canadian Screen Awards
Christopher Plummer, a cast member in the classic film “The Sound of Music,” arrives for a 50th anniversary screening of the film at the opening night gala of the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival on March 26, 2015, in Los Angeles. Christopher Plummer, a cast member in the classic film “The Sound of Music,” arrives for a 50th anniversary screening of the film at the opening night gala of the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival on March 26, 2015, in Los Angeles.
Blackfeet designer realizes New York Fashion Week dream
In this Dec. 8, 2016 photo, Kaylee Weatherwax wears a design by Belinda Bullshoe with jewelry made by her mother, Lacretia, and grandmother, Theodora, with self-styled hair, in Browning, Mont. In this Dec. 8, 2016 photo, Belinda Bullshoe, second from left, is photographed with family members Rod Bullshoe, left, Sam Daychief, center, Arnell Henderson and Kiera Bighorn, in Browning, Mont.
The evolution of Glenn Payette’s St. John’s sign-off
If you watch Here & Now on CBC TV, you are familiar with Glenn Payette and his long, drawn out broadcast sign-off. The veteran CBC reporter was memed this week, and it got the St.John’s newsroom thinking about how it all started.
Big Barriere block party
Jeremy and Chloe are a folk/rock duo out of Kamloops BC. These two youngsters have a bright bright future in the musical industry, make sure you catch their show before they ascend to superstar status.
Kevin O’Leary doesn’t seem to actually be a Trumpist, he just plays one on TV
When Kevin O’Leary, part-time Canadian resident and full-time television troll, walked into conservative Canada’s answer to Comic-Con Thursday night, the gravity of the ballroom – in a convention centre attached to an Ottawa mall – shifted around him. The campus partisans came first, fan boys in first suits, lapels overladen with pins.
Telly With Melly: Lethal Weapon, First Dates, The Stanley Dynamic
Lethal Weapon is reloading for a second season. Fox renewed the TV drama based on the like-named film franchise this week, a no-brainer considering that U.S. ratings have risen to an average multi-platform audience of 11 million.
Telly With Melly: Canadian TV ratings for Feb. 6-12
For a show that one high-profile hate-watcher has called boring, unfunny and really bad television , Saturday Night Live isn’t doing too badly in its 42nd season. After Melissa McCarthy’s surprise Feb. 5 debut as White House press secretary Sean Spicer went viral, the following week’s episode hosted by Donald- Trump-portrayer Alec Baldwin gave the sketch-comedy its best U.S. metered market household ratings in six years.
Bride makes 92-year-old grandmother a bridesmaid in her wedding:…
Amanda Scott couldn’t imagine getting married without her grandmother, Mary Smith, by her side – so she asked the 92-year-old to be in her bridal party. “It might be a bit untraditional, but Granny is my best friend!” Scott, 24, tells PEOPLE.
Martin Sheen on relating to a Anne of Green Gablesa story for YTV films
… “L.M. Montgomerya TMs Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars,” debuting Monday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Corus Entertainment TORONTO – Martin Sheen has a great affinity for the classic Canadian story of “Anne of Green Gables” and his introverted …
Call Board auditions: Muhlenberg Summer Theatre, ‘Fame Jr.’
Muhlenberg Summer Music Theatre will hold open auditions for performers ages 16 and up on Feb. 26 and 27 for the season’s mainstage productions: “Hair,” running June 14-July 2, and “My Fair Lady,” running July 12-30. Vocal auditions will be held for both performances noon-5 p.m. and 7-11 p.m., Feb. 26 and 5-10 p.m., Feb. 27 at Baker Center for the Arts and the Trexler Pavilion for Theatre & Dance.
Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy bringing funny to Halifax in April
Jeff Foxworthy on the set of The American Bible Challenge in 2013. Foxworthy is currently on a cross Canada tour with Larry the Cable Guy.
Masstech Selected by APB News Network for Efficient, Multi-Site Media Asset Management
February 9, 2017 ?? TORONTO, Ontario : Masstech ?? the trusted provider of innovative, advanced workflow and media asset management solutions ?? announced today that respected Indian news broadcaster ABP News Network has selected Masstech MAM solutions to modernize and streamline its media workflows. Continuing the rapid adoption of Masstech’s powerful and easy-to-use MAM systems in newsrooms around the globe, the ABP order spans all of the broadcaster’s channels and represents Masstech’s largest sale to an India-based news organization to date.
Canadian Media Ramps Up Attacks On O’Leary
The businessman and television personality just entered the Conservative Party of Canada leadership race and is already considered the front-runner in a pack of 14 candidates. He’s apparently selling the party memberships needed to win the contest and raising money more money than anyone else running.
Sunrise visitors overload Maui peak, leading to restrictions
Well before dawn each morning, throngs of tourists from around the world make their way to Maui’s tallest peak, a dormant volcano, to see what Mark Twain called the “sublimest spectacle” he ever witnessed. They drive up a long, winding road through the clouds to an otherworldly, lava-rock landscape at 10,000 feet.
Kevin O’Leary makes his debut at the Conservative leadership…
Kevin O’Leary makes his debut at the Conservative leadership candidates’ debate, in Halifax on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017. Conservatives vote for a new party leader on May 27, 2017.
‘Magnetic’ Michael Clemons returns to W&M for Charter Day
The first Charter Day speaker on record at William and Mary dates to 1859 with former President John Tyler. Among the luminaries since: Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger and Prince Charles .
Maui’s ‘top of the world’ sunrise view leads to overcrowding
Well before dawn each morning, throngs of tourists from around the world make their way to Maui’s tallest peak, a dormant volcano, to see what Mark Twain called the “sublimest spectacle” he ever witnessed. They drive up a long, winding road through the clouds to an otherworldly, lava-rock landscape at 10,000 feet.
Maui’s ‘top of the world’ sunrise view leads to overcrowding
Well before dawn each morning, throngs of tourists from around the world make their way to Maui’s tallest peak, a dormant volcano, to see what Mark Twain called the “sublimest spectacle” he ever witnessed. They drive up a long, winding road through the clouds to an otherworldly, lava-rock landscape at 10,000 feet.
Funk Nonet Busty And The Bass Take The Party Global
In 2014, Busty and the Bass won a $10,000 grand prize for their song “Tryna Find Myself.” Since then, the band has been selling out shows and building a global fan base, and its current tour launched early in February with two sold-out dates in Toronto.
Maui National Park Grapples With Overtourism
The National Park Service is no stranger to overtourism in its most renowned parks. Requiring reservations and payment in advance may irritate some visitors to Maui, but if the NPS wants to preserve this valuable natural habitat for future travelers to enjoy, it doesn’t have much choice.
Q&A: a Toni Erdmanna director on Oscar-nominated film, Whitney Houston inspiration
Actor Sandra Huller stars as Ines in the film “Toni Erdmann.” THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics MANDATORY CREDIT TORONTO – Asking viewers to sit through a three-hour German comedy is a gamble, yet writer-director Maren Ade was open to the risk with “Toni Erdmann.”
From Mauritius to India – passing the baton – willingly or reluctantly8 min ago
New Delhi [India], Jan.24: It is public knowledge that Mulayam Singh Yadav was very reluctant to leave the post of Samajwadi Party president, but eventually could not withstand the show of strength and support exhibited by his son and incumbent Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, the long drama before the public notwithstanding. In contrast, however, is Mauritius, where Anerood Jugnauth, the Prime Minister, passed on the political baton peacefully and willingly to his son and the country’s Finance Minister Pravind Jugnauth, citing the need for “a young leadership”.
Canadian director always knew Ryan Gosling was going to be a star
Premiere of Lionsgate’s ‘La La Land’ – Arrivals Featuring: Ryan Gosling Where: Los Angeles, California, United States When: 06 Dec 2016 Credit: FayesVision/WENN.com ORG XMIT: wenn30566562 Veteran Canadian actor/director/writer Rob Stewart has always known that London, Ont.’ s, Ryan Gosling was going to be a huge star.
Land & Sea: The traditional craft revival
The show focuses on the revival of traditional crafts in the province. Host David Quinton takes us to Twillingate, where we meet knitters and craft shop owners. Then, the episode heads to St. John’s, where Quinton visits the studio of Bogside Weaving and the Craft Council Craft Fair.
From London to LA, women’s marches pack cities big and small
A demonstrator holds a sign as she marches in support of the Women’s March on Washington Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, in Phoenix. Thousands of protesters in Phoenix joined in support of those in cities around the globe protesting against Donald Trump as the new United States president.
A selection of quotes from Conservative leadership candidate Kevin O’Leary
Jan. 18, 2017: “Canadians are looking for a prime minister who is not a career politician; a prime minister who will fight for them, and is not afraid to tell them how it is. They also want a prime minister who will be inclusive and not lower themselves to use divisive politics.”
O’Leary running to lead Conservatives; now to get them to support him
A brash businessman-turned-reality TV star turns his outsized appetite for success towards the most powerful position in federal politics. Canadians felt a shudder of deja vu Wednesday as Kevin O’Leary officially joined the Conservative leadership race, hoping his celebrity and private-sector experience will help him stand out from an already crowded field.
Why the production designer of new TV series Legion has a dream job
Rachel Keller, left, and Dan Stevens, two of the stars of FX series Legion, are seen one of the many sets built in an enormous warehouse in Burnaby, B.C. Rachel Keller, left, and Dan Stevens, two of the stars of FX series Legion, are seen one of the many sets built in an enormous warehouse in Burnaby, B.C. Michael Wylie is in production designers’ heaven. As he leads reporters on a tour of sets he designed and had built for the new TV series Legion , he says he has been given a freer-than-usual hand to let his imagination run wild.
Comedian Cathy Jones on overcoming stage fright, possible ADHD diagnosis and finding herself
“When I go on stage now, I say, ‘You are coming with me.’ I bring that with me and stop being embarrassed about who I am when I see the audience,” Jones told Daybreak Alberta on Saturday.
Chilling artifacts from when Canada prepared for nuclear annihilation
Nuclear threats once again seem to be in vogue. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is threatening to test a ICBM that would allow him to send atomic weapons to the U.S. mainland.
After a lifetime of achievements, Christopher Plummer takes the long view
Christopher Plummer has always maintained links to Canadian theatre and film, and has particularly strengthened them in his later years. Christopher Plummer has always maintained links to Canadian theatre and film, and has particularly strengthened them in his later years.
Horoscope: January 09, 2017
BIRTHDAY GUY: Actor Steve Lund was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on this day in 1989. This birthday guy starred as Nick Sorrentino on the Canadian series “Bitten” and played the Colorado Kid on “Haven.”
Telly With Melly: Canadian TV ratings for Dec. 19-25
You might think there’s nothing particularly festive about The Big Bang Theory or news broadcasts, but leading up to Christmas, that’s what many Canadians were watching. Big Bang sat pretty in three of the Top 20 spots, while the news in its various forms took up five spots.
Kate Middleton is given honorary lifetime membership of Royal Photographic Society for budding hobby
The Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Charlotte arrive to attend the morning Christmas Day service at St Mark’s Church in Englefield, Berkshire. The Duchess of Cambridge leaving after a visit to The Mix in London, where she attended the youth charity’s Christmas party.
Celebrities Who Broke Their Promise And Are Still Here in America
Back in late October I presented a list of so-called ” celebrities ” who vowed to leave the country if Donald Trump won the election. Although many of the “celebrity” names will be unfamiliar to most Americans, it is now the new year and it’s time to check back to see if any of them have bid goodbye.
‘Air Farce’ to air its New Year’s Eve special Dec. 30
The comedy troupe’s annual goof on the year-that-was premieres Dec. 30, a day earlier than their usual New Year’s Eve airing. It has everything to do with Dec. 31 falling on a Saturday.
DVDs are not dead – they’re just hiding at your local library
Each Tuesday, chief librarian Laura Emery or one of her staff dives into the DVD section of the local Walmart, searching for the latest romcom or actor Will Smith’s new blockbuster. The effort seems quaint in the age of Netflix and other on-demand movie and TV services.
Princess Leia superfan remembers idol Carrie Fisher
In these photos, Cassandra Munro shows off her Princess Leia costume from the original 1977 Star Wars film. On the morning of Dec. 27, the day that Carrie Fisher passed away, Cassandra Munro’s phone lit up with messages from friends around the world.
Book Review: “Polar Bear Facts and Myths – a Science…
Susan Crockford, the “Bones”1 of the zoology world, is a partner in Pacific Identifications, Inc. , whose homepage proudly declares “We identify animal bones”. She is a world-renowned expert in the identification and analysis of animal bone recovered from archaeological sites and animal digestive tracts, among other things.
Kevin O’Leary wants to know: Are Canadians in or out on his possible Tory bid?
Kevin O’Leary speaks during a session entitled “If I run here’s how i’d do it” during a conservative conference in Ottawa Friday, February 26, 2016. Celebrity businessman Kevin O’Leary says he’s amassed a team of advisers on whether he should run for leadership of the federal Conservatives and now wants advice from Canadians.
Kevin O’Leary’s campaign got rolling over lunch
When Kevin O’Leary popped up on Facebook late last week to nearly, almost, not quite declare his bid for the federal Conservative leadership, close watchers of Canadian politics must have been thinking, “Get on with it, Mr. Wonderful!” After all, O’Leary, celebrity investor and TV personality, has been flirting shamelessly with Tories for about a year, going back at least to his appearance last February at the Manning Centre Conference, an annual Ottawa gathering of right-wingers, where he headlined a session bluntly billed as, ” If I run, here’s how I’d do it .” Despite O’Leary’s undisguised interest in the job, though, he appears to have been seriously assembling a campaign organization for only a few weeks.